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MIT’s Copenhagen Bike Wheel

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Researchers at MIT have developed a new bicycle rear wheel—the Copenhagen Wheel —that can capture energy from braking and deliver the power back to provide a boost. A close-up of the Copenhagen Wheel, from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab. Click to enlarge. Everything is controlled by your feet,” Ratti explains.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Video Friday: Fluidic Fingers

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In this work, we propose a novel bug algorithm named ‘Sniffy Bug’, which allows a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters to localize a gas source in an unknown, cluttered and GPS-denied environments. MIT CSAIL ]. MIT CSAIL ]. Drone Adventures maps wildlife in Namibia from above. Drone Adventures ]. Thanks, Fan!

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. ?IEEE: IEEE is a place for setting intellectual standards for publications, and it creates a place for a lot of open dialogue through conferences.”. Deborah Estrin says she’s always been drawn to experimental work.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. Slutzky and other proponents of EV power have been pressing for a more favorable regulatory environment, including access to the subsidies that states such as California offer to users of stationary storage batteries.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010. By partnering with these two industries. GM Press Release ).

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