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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa.

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AFOSR and NASA Launch First Test Rocket Fueled by Aluminum-Ice Propellant

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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently launched the first test rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprising nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). They found that the pressure exponent for ALICE was 0.73, which is approximately a factor of two larger than Al/water mixtures.

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Terex introduces all-electric bucket truck; 9 initial utility customers

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Terex Utilities introduced the industry’s first all-electric bucket truck at the Electric Utility Fleet Managers Conference (EUFMC) in Williamsburg, Va. The second truck will be delivered to its Denver fleet at the end of 2022. during the Drive-Thru Demonstrations. The company currently has 1,000 aerial bucket trucks in its fleet.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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System improvements include high performance fluorescent lighting, LED exit signs, retrofitting existing pole lights; and installing occupancy sensors for private offices, conference rooms and bathrooms. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $325,000.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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We would figure out things like: Do we need more lines between Denver and Chicago?” In October 1972, the ARPANET was publicly unveiled at the first meeting of the International Conference on Computer Communications , in Washington, D.C. “I There was a steep trail that went up the side of a fjord, water coming down the opposite side.

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