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DOE awards $17M for vehicle technologies; batteries, PEEM, engines, materials, fuel

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30 kW Modular DC-DC System using Superjunction MOSFETs This project will develop a new modular power conversion approach that utilizes both silicon and WBG devices to address the fundamental power conversion, loss, and component stress mechanisms. University of Connecticut. University of Colorado Boulder. 874,024.

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

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Like other Yale museums, it is now free, offers more Spanish-language programming, and is inviting more voices into the conversation, with some exhibits being interpreted by students and artists, opening the lens on how visitors might respond to what they’re seeing. “We The Canal Dock Boathouse debuted on Long Wharf six years ago.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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s Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project. The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. Total DOE award: $13,299,101. Greater New Haven Clean Cities Coalition, Inc.’s Total DOE award: $12,299,828.

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Toyota FCV Mirai launches in LA; initial TFCS specs; $57,500 or $499 lease; leaning on Prius analogy

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After DC/AC conversion by power supply unit. Power supply capacity varies according to power supply unit conversion efficiency, amount of remaining hydrogen and power consumption.) Consumer electronics can also be connected directly and used from the interior accessory socket (AC 100 V, 1,500 W). Sales and Marketing.

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Researchers Demonstrate Liquid-Tin Anode SOFC Operating on Biodiesel

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Researchers from CellTech Power and the University of Connecticut have demonstrated a liquid-tin anode solid-oxide fuel cell (LTA-SOFC) operating on pure biodiesel (B100) prepared via base-catalyzed transesterification of virgin and waste cooking oils. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Energy Fuels. doi: 10.1021/ef9003413. McPhee, W. Bateman, L.;

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

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A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher. Local area network. Object-oriented programming. After a year I was ready to give up.”

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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The Mirai botnet exploited vulnerable Internet of Things devices, such as Web-connected video cameras, ones that supported Telnet, an outdated system for logging in remotely. They achieved this firepower by hijacking 1,300 Web-connected cameras. They used their new weapon to attack banks in Brazil, U.S.

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