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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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Also, there’s a lot of waste. His Small Radiosondes on a Great Mission project was showcased in May at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair held in Atlanta. In comparison to launching 2,000 to 5,000 balloons that stay up for just two to three hours, my balloon can stay up in the air for 52 days.”

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That Was the Year That Was

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CES is cranking up this week so there’s not much time to waste thinking about the past year. We took to the road to report on most of the new EVs hitting the market, as well as plug-in hybrids, fuel cell electric vehicles, hybrids and the best of the legacy internal combustion engine models. That Was the Year That Was. and Europe.

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The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges

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report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Software also allows for the decoupling of the internal mechanical connections needed in an ICE vehicle, permitting an EV to be controlled remotely or autonomously. Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory needs some 10,000 workers alone, for example. Furthermore, Dziczek adds, there are.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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In just two decades, the share of the global lighting market held by gallium-nitride-based light-emitting diodes has gone from zero to more than 50 percent, according to a study by the International Energy Agency. The data came from the International Energy Agency, Statista, and other sources.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). If a page had no uppercase Qs in it, the character generator would economize on internal memory by not generating a pattern for a capital “Q.” and Toronto, Ont., invented it.”

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