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SwRI D-EGR gasoline demo vehicle delivers diesel efficiency at lower cost; potential for LEV III/Tier 3 emissions

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In their paper, the SwRI researchers reported that the conversion to D-EGR improved engine efficiency and fuel consumption at least 10% across the performance map, with some operating conditions seeing substantially higher improvements. The engine conversion. The D-EGR demonstrator is a converted 2012 Buick Regal with a 2.0-liter

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Altex & Unitel partner to demonstrate a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass

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Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Several of these events, such as the first public demo of the ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. Goodbye BBN, Hello DARPA Kahn officially left BBN the day after the demo concluded to join DARPA (the agency having recently added the word “Defense” to its name). Why would he step back now? “I

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The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

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Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. In 1961, Glimcher traveled to the Soviet Union to see a demo of the Russian Hand. In 1961, Norbert Wiener , the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and wound up in Massachusetts General Hospital. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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Electric Vehicle Project Ideas | Ph.D., MTech, MSc | Electrical, Management, Mechanical & More…

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Impacts of Vehicle to Grid on power quality (DC – AC conversion and power injection happens) You may start as follows. For calculations and formulae, you may refer NPTEL course, then you may get some information from IEEE I guess.😊 A miniature demo version can be developed. #56 Electric scooter conversion 3.

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

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They wouldn’t let us get them out on 7000s,” Goldman said, referring to the old-model printer that Ellenby’s group had used as a base. One of the abilities that is really useful is to save a sequence of messages on a particular subject so that you can refer to it,” said Warren Teitelman, who joined PARC in 1972 from BBN Inc.

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