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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

Baua Electric

And some suppliers have struggled to adhere to quality standards while producing parts at the pace Boeing wanted them. The chief executive, Dave Calhoun, will leave at the end of the year, and Stan Deal, the head of the commercial planes division, which makes the 737 Max, retired immediately.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Sprout at Plug-in 2010

Green Car Congress

In June, Plug In Carolina selected AeroVironment to supply, install and support a network of public electric vehicle stations in seven South Carolina cities. Roush Manufacturing will manufacture the Blink home and commercial electric vehicle chargers. Among those exhibiting were: Aerovironment. Click to enlarge.

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

Green Car Congress

Although the starch-to-ethanol pathway is similar to that used for corn ethanol, based upon initial calculations from Drexel University, OBE’s winter barley ethanol has the potential to meet the criteria of an Advanced Biofuel as defined by the Renewable Fuel Standard-2 (RFS-2) and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007).

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

These can be grouped into two broad categories: commercial and industrial loads, and residential loads. To increase the impact of our work, we decided to commercialize PEM in parallel with our research and founded Packetized Energy in 2016. Here’s how. Electricity demand on the grid comes from billions of electrical loads.