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Japan researchers proposing novel method for powering on-road EVs

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Their basic concept stems from electric railways, where each car of the train is powered from an overhead wire. Notably, the leakage electromagnetic field is small, and the infrastructure can be set up at low cost compared with coils. Click to enlarge. The proposed model and measurement model. 77-80, Kyoto, May 2011.

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US DOE soliciting fuel cell R&D projects for up to $74M in new funding

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The funding also includes up to $9 million to conduct independent cost analyses that will assess the progress of the technology under current research initiatives and help guide future fuel cell and hydrogen storage R&D efforts. desulfurization); reactors to convert the raw fuel into a hydrogen-rich stream (e.g.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. Besides reducing the cost of the systems to the telephone company, such chips would enable companies to build small branch exchanges that handled switching electronically.

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