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Miniscule Sensing Suite is a Big Step Towards Robotic Gnats

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In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System.

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#EVmyValentine: Your Creative Odes to Electric Vehicles

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of Energy to Yale and MIT , that EVs are better for the environment from cradle to grave.) The fuel is cheap, The maintenance low, No emissions, It’s fast, not slow. Jose from Washington penned a poem about his previous BMW i3. Side note: There are lots of studies, from the EPA and Dept.

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

Creative Greenius

It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. They just posted a reply on their website : “ In an opinion piece by George Will published on February 15, 2009 in the Washington Post, George Will states “According to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.”.

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University of Washington team develops new robust approach to solving battery models

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A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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Powered by electricity, they can “pump” heat from the environment at a colder temperature into a building at a warmer temperature. And on 8 March, the Washington Post reported that the White House was taking this suggestion under serious consideration. Heat pumps are, basically, air conditioners that run in reverse.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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And the stratosphere is relatively uniform environment compared to the lower atmosphere, so scientists have also been able to do what they think is more reliable modeling of what might happen. Absolutely, but it’s not necessarily cheap and easy to do in an absolute sense. So it’s been observed before. Wanser: Yes.

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