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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. The chapter scheduled pre-events that stretched for nearly 3 weeks before NDEW began. The right folks Erb gave other reasons for the chapter’s success that predate the original NDEW event.

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Video Friday: ReachBot

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Experiments with rock grasping and coordinated locomotion illustrate the advantages of low inertia passive grippers, triggered by impact and using stored mechanical energy for the internal force.

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GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

Green Car Congress

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. There is building consensus that unchecked climate change can lead to a planetary extinction event. Illustration credit: Stuart Licht.

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Study finds perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn

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The study, led by GLBRC scientist and Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies, and hybrid poplar trees. —Stephen Hamilton.

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Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

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Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. So the evolution of white rot is a very important event in the evolution of carbon cycle. —Clark University biologist David Hibbett, senior author. Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus. Punctularia strigoso-zonata.

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Notes from the road: a guest post from Portland

Revenge of the Electric Car

Local enthusiast Steve “LEAF” Erickson led the charge of electric conversions and the trail of early-adopter factory EVs across town and down Sandy Boulevard, finishing in front of the theater as Paine looked on. A proper road rally! We laughed, we cried… but most importantly, we got REVENGE ! Sweet vindication!

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

Cars That Think

—Roger Entner, founder of Recon Analytics Most explosively, Huawei is accused of installing backdoors in its software that could allow China to monitor data flowing through its international networks or even shut networks down in the event of a war. Huawei denies doing so, but as a result, the U.S. So the U.S.

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