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Penn State and partners hosting Next Generation Biomass Conversion Short Course and facility tour

Green Car Congress

Experts in the field, including government researchers, university specialists, and industry leaders, will provide instruction in this two-day course covering various aspects of biomass conversion including sessions on technology, economics, operations, and policy issues. CE/PDH credits are available for participants. Fermentation Strategies.

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NTSB recommends nationwide ban on personal electronic devices while driving; also calls for modifications to the equipment and the completion of a NHTSA rulemaking on collision warning systems

Green Car Congress

Following a Board meeting on a 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Missouri, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle. —NTSB synopsis. The accident resulted in 11 fatalities.

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

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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

Cars That Think

The ICCC would prove to be for packet switching what the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia was for the telephone : the public unveiling of what would eventually lead to a technological discontinuity. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply. After celebrating at the River’s End Café, the road weary couple flew back to Philadelphia with the satisfaction of having achieved their all-electric Tesla Roadster cross-country goal.