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Nissan and ENEL announce V2G system, launch smart grid trials in Europe

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At the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris this week, Nissan announced the development of a Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) system which will allow drivers to operate as individual energy hubs with the ability to store, use or return electricity to the grid. Earlier post.).

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Eat This Drone

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At the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ( IROS ) conference in Kyoto last week, researchers from EPFL presented a paper describing a drone that can boost its payload of food from 30 percent to 50 percent of its mass. It’s a process that’s fast, simple, and cheap.

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SpaceX’s backup Dragon launch pad on track for 2023 debut

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Four months later, SpaceX and NASA have provided another press conference update. Richard Angle) SpaceX’s answer to the problem was about as simple, elegant, and cheap as possible. In September 2022, NASA and SpaceX acknowledged plans to modify LC-40 for Dragon launches and indicated that both parties had decided to proceed.

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Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics

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At the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics at Automation (ICRA) in London this past May, Raibert gave a keynote talk that discussed some of his specific goals, with an emphasis on developing practical, helpful capabilities in robots. He now leads the Boston Dynamics AI Institute. That’s not the same as showing what you did.

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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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In a presentation for the Copper International Conference in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013, Allanore noted the proof of concept for producing copper and sulfur by electrodecomposition of copper sulfide, achieved by T.P. —Antoine Allanore. The idea for direct sulfide electrolysis dates to as early as 1906.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Lockheed Martin pursuing compact nuclear fusion reactor concept

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Tom Jarboe from the University of Washington (which is developing its own version of a fusion reactor and will present its results on Friday at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Fusion Energy Conference in St. based on the figure I see one problem. Our concept has no coils surrounded by plasma and solves the problem.).

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