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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

Baua Electric

And some suppliers have struggled to adhere to quality standards while producing parts at the pace Boeing wanted them. For years, we prioritized the movement of the airplane through the factory over getting it done right, and that’s got to change,” Brian West, the company’s chief financial officer, said at an investor conference last week.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Sprout at Plug-in 2010

Green Car Congress

In June, Plug In Carolina selected AeroVironment to supply, install and support a network of public electric vehicle stations in seven South Carolina cities. Among those exhibiting were: Aerovironment. Aerovironment’s home charging dock. Click to enlarge. The company offers a broad range of Level 1, 2 and 3 charging solutions.

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

Green Car Congress

Although the starch-to-ethanol pathway is similar to that used for corn ethanol, based upon initial calculations from Drexel University, OBE’s winter barley ethanol has the potential to meet the criteria of an Advanced Biofuel as defined by the Renewable Fuel Standard-2 (RFS-2) and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007).

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

A Real-Time Demo of Load Coordination” shows how PEM coordinated the load from 208 residential water heaters in Vermont and South Carolina over a typical 2-hour period. First, there are few standards today to guide manufacturers interested in device-level coordination and no real incentives for them to adopt any particular approach.