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Your Guide to Electric-Vehicle Charging-Station Tax Credits

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On the utility side, Rocky Mountain Power offers incentives to commercial customers in Utah that cover 75% of the costs, ranging from $1,000 per Level 2 charger up to $42,000 per multiport DC fast charger. Washington state offers tax credits for up to 50% of the costs of equipment and related costs. These are just a few examples.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. I remember renting a conference room at the Cabana Hyatt in Palo Alto,” Kahn says.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The Sutherland brothers, through a connection of their mother’s, began visiting Edmund Berkeley in New York City from their home in Scarsdale while Ivan was still in grade school. Computer History Museum In 1968, Sutherland moved to the University of Utah, and he cofounded a new startup to pursue 3D computer graphics.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. University of Utah. Battery Based On Advanced Metal Hydrides A project team from the University of Utah will develop an advanced metal hydride-based compact hot and cold battery. University of Utah). to connect photovoltaic solar panels to the grid. 4,839,877.

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

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One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building.

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