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NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

Green Car Congress

A new study by a team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) concludes that a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city hydrogen pipeline system could improve the economics and logistics of hydrogen delivery, making it potentially cost-competitive with gasoline. kg—approximately equivalent to a gasoline cost of $2.7/gal

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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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NASA The station is slowly leaking air, presumably from stress cracks in its hull that crew members have struggled to locate, and it’s getting increasingly expensive to maintain as parts wear out. When the time comes, Axiom says, it would detach its components and reconfigure them with other parts for a new station. “If What is that?

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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In terms of travel time, the strike produced a net benefit to the system because the one-off time costs of the strike were less than the enduring benefits for this minority of commuters. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

Old Monterey The oldest part of Monterey — an outpost of Spain and then Mexico dating back to the 17th century — lies just over a mile south of Cannery Row in a pedestrian-friendly downtown where signs flag historic adobe buildings. Even getting there comes at a price: 17-Mile Drive , the coastal scenic route, costs $12 to drive.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Always a pleasure to be part of IEEE. In the same way that making all of your PC parts and accessories work together initially was pretty lumpy. We don't have a ton of data as yet, in part because the 250- to 300-mile range cars are just now entering the market. It has a highway part and a city part. car market.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Always a pleasure to be part of IEEE. In the same way that making all of your PC parts and accessories work together initially was pretty lumpy. We don't have a ton of data as yet, in part because the 250- to 300-mile range cars are just now entering the market. It has a highway part and a city part. car market.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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And contrary to its corporate culture, it used off-the-shelf parts and software that the company didn't write. Once the PC business in IBM got folded into the main corporate structure, its costs of operating went up. So it's nearly impossible to get the cost of manufacturing and sales down to a competitive level.

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