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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Sterling will bring a unique perspective to the Board, and expand the diversity of the Board to Texas. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. Studying "smart grids" with emphasis on co-joining BEVs with houses and commercial buildings. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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

Green Car Congress

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

Cars That Think

Furui was a member of several IEEE committees and served as general co-chair of this year’s IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , held in May in Singapore. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University , in Lubbock, in 1968 and 1970. Burrus Jr.

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

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Switching power supplies are the type used to power virtually all personal computers, mobile devices, and appliances that run on DC. This cascode solution is used by Power Integrations , Texas Instruments , and Transphorm. Today, grid-scale photovoltaic inverters are the domain of silicon IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid. Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. Ted Flanigan, EcoMotion.

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