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The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

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Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? Like Bill Joys infamous gray goo , a silo-busting nanotechnology industry never materialized. The quantum regime, however, is already its own thriving industry, perhaps because the science of it is so unique. According to IEEE Life Member Hausi A.

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Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests

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The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington. And the technology being developed there could one day reduce the space industrys reliance on chemical rockets. Our focus here is applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic [AF-MPD] thrusters. C (75 kelvin).

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These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024

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The tech giant has produced a more influential patent portfolio than entire industry categories. Category descriptions Aerospace : These companies develop and manufacture commercial airplanes, spacecraft, and military aircraft. Many companies patent in several industries, but tend to focus on one; others are trickier to label.

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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At the Summit, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury backed off of a goal to fly such a plane by 2035, citing the lack of a regulatory framework for certifying such an aircraft as well as the slow pace of the build-out of infrastructure needed to produce green hydrogen at commercial scale and at competitive prices. My first reaction was, really?

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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

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We have a relationship with EV Connect, and with LITEON, so we can use standard commercial chargers in addition to our own. When we started the company, because I came out of the solar industry, in our early life our vision was around DC charging, and our first product delivered direct DC charging from solar to the vehicle.

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First Supercritical CO2 Circuit Breaker Debuts

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These devices are placed throughout substations, power generation plants, transmission and distribution networks, and industrial facilities where equipment operates in tens to hundreds of kilovolts. The team turned to the petroleum industry to find the parts, and found all but one: the bushing.

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Bell Labs Turns 100, Plans to Leave Its Old Headquarters

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A 100 gigahertz link using the tech was deployed at the Paris Olympics in 2024, and a commercial product is on the roadmap for 2027. One team is working on integrating large language models with robots for industrial applications. Then, it uses AI to suggest necessary maintenance and to optimize scheduling.