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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. Navy after earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1951 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , in Troy, N.Y.

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GM and Stellantis Back Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnet

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And nearly 90 percent of processed rare earths come from China, which means a supply-chain dependence that spooks car companies in the United States, Japan, Europe, and Korea. It also requires cobalt, whose supply is so fraught that magnets incorporating the element make up a relatively small percentage of the permanent-magnet market. “I

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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Note the curved mirrors hanging from the ceiling, the better to view the maze of engineers, technicians, and support staff of the development laboratory. Sitting in his shirtsleeves at an industrial beige metal desk piled with papers, amid dented bookcases, gym bag in the corner, he does not look like anybody’s definition of a star engineer.

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ARPA-E Awards Consortium $4.4M to Develop Next-Generation Magnets; Applications in Motors in Hybrids, EVs, Wind Turbines

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He will coordinate a team of chemists, material scientists, physicists, and engineers from the University of Delaware; University of Nebraska; Northeastern University; Virginia Commonwealth University; the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa; and the Electron Energy Corporation in Landisville, Pa.

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