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Research Suggests Renewables Could Generate 40% of Global Power by 2050

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We have identified specific areas of priority for the wind sector to effectively deliver the overall objective of cost reductions. Research areas including turbine technology, wind energy integration and offshore deployment will be crucial to maximizing future growth. Professor Petersen.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008). Earlier post.). Five months ago.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better?

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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As high officials of CalEPA and CARB got wind of Chu’s analysis of H2 and FCVs, they reportedly went to DC and lobbied furiously if unsuccessfully to pull him back. In addition to the California funds there is federal stimulus money, $41 million by mid-April, being doled out to their projects, many of zero environmental benefit.

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Restoring Hearing With Beams of Light

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At left, the hair cells [light blue spiral] connect to the cochlear nerve cells [blue filaments and dots]. We next trained the gerbils to respond to an auditory stimulus, teaching them to avoid a certain area when they heard a tone. The deaf animals responded to this light stimulation just as they had to the auditory stimulus.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

Eric Tom, Correspondent) The picture of our carbon-free energy future is often depicted by a sea of solar panels shimmering in the sun, or orderly lines of giant white wind mills covering a hillside: large structures that capture nature’s gifts. But an increasingly important energy resource is little more than a digital electric meter.

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

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He realized that a blade of grass with a stiff base and a flexible tip could wind through the shell, and that is how he was going to get the electrodes through the cochlea. The engineers found and fixed a loose connection in the speech processor that fitted over the implant. The third time was the charm.

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