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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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He captained one of the university club’s teams that participated in the Micro Mouse competition held during the October IEEE Region 2 Student Activities Conference , hosted by Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. If we can make them cheap enough, we could get ham radio operators to set them up and increase data points.” “I

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Lockheed Martin pursuing compact nuclear fusion reactor concept

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Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. The UW’s reactor (the dynomak) started as a class project taught by Jarboe two years ago.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Two main classes [of actuators]: rotary and linear. Clearly a world class engineering team at the top of their game. This is coming off as a grad student/TA doing a class presentation for a bunch of undergrads. Nothing novel in the kinematics. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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Researchers show economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric

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Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. years for the average US Class I line-haul freight locomotive. (a) An open-access paper on their study appears in the journal Nature Energy. TCO of locomotives by propulsion technology over 20?years

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Although not part of the conferences formal structure, the themes were addressed in the presentations and panel discussions.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

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The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. Today, Mr Li and I share the belief that the best way to help China move forward is to make BYD a world-class company.” That’s past history,” he said.

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