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Toyota Rumored to Debut Performance Automatic Transmission for GR Models Next Month

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This may just be more publicized speculation from Japan’s Magazine X. Unlike a standard automatic transmission, Toyota’s GR-DAT units are supposed to minimize slippage of the torque converter. The torque converter comes with a hydraulic circuit and lock-up clutch that’s supposed to transfer energy to the gears more efficiently.

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Can We Harness Kinetic Energy to Reduce our Carbon Footprint?

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These turbines convert the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy, which is then transformed into electricity. By fitting vehicles with KERS, the kinetic energy generated during braking can be converted into electricity and stored in batteries or other energy storage systems. See more at E Magazine.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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They came up with some early products that targeted shelf labels for brick-and-mortar retail stores and also for signage. Its resolution was simply too low and the colors not bright enough for people who were used to the high resolution of tablet computers or print magazines. We have a few things to work on.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. Later, the converted Kim would become the “loudest-speaking” professor at KAIST, according to several fellow faculty members, and they say his absence made the whole campus seem quiet. Kim rose quickly within Fairchild’s hierarchy.

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James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality

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They are a class of generator that converts mechanical work into electrostatic energy through induction. Twenty-nine years later, on the centenary of his birth , Nature again published a note calling him “among the best-known inventors of electrical machines of the last part of the nineteenth century.” What does a Wimshurst machine do?

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Practical aspects of off-grid EV charging

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An off-grid energy system basically consists of just four key components: 1) a battery to store energy; 2) one or more renewable energy sources (e.g. The next key component in an off-grid system is an inverter, which converts the nominal 48 VDC from the storage battery into the 120/240 VAC required by the house, EV charger, etc.

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