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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. Among the contests was “a huge late winter race in Phoenix with a variety of events and classes, including Formula Lightning ,” for which he was an advisor to a team from Ohio State.

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In 1961, the First Robot Arm Punched In

Cars That Think

Then the conversation turned more serious. First Industrial Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line | Innovation Nation. At the time, many workers worried that their jobs would be replaced by robots, so Engelberger took pains to make the Unimate seem personable. meters high, 1.2 meters wide, and 1.5 meters deep.

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Fly the Hybrid Skies

Cars That Think

The challenge is how to reduce emissions while enabling the expansion in air travel to support economic growth and the personal and social benefits of travel. Advanced semiconductors, motors, and batteries are enabling energy conversion efficiencies above 90 percent and continuously improving the ratio of power to weight.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

I continue to be an aspiring policy wonk on the solar financing issue known around the state as AB 811 financing, since we need it if we’re going to make it possible for people to install solar right now, instead of waiting till electric rates triple and the greenhouse gas situation makes it mandatory.

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