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

Green Car Congress

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. NJ Transit, New Jersey: $250,000. Solar PV system installations range from 5kW to 20kW.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

During a visit to Shannon’s office at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in northern New Jersey, he showed the brothers his creation Theseus. The Sketchpad system…opens up a new era of man-machine communication.” Some of these figures discussed this remarkable environment in a 1994 meeting.

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