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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, I connected one of our new-fangled iPods via the set of RCA audio inputs at the back (fortunately, these had become standard just a few years before the hi-fi was made). I made fitful attempts to find a replacement tube, searching eBay and scouring the formidable MIT Radio Society Swapfests.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

WiTricity is an MIT spin-off commercializing an approach to “mid-range” wireless charging (distances from a centimeter to several meters) based on sharply resonant strong coupling. Earlier post.) MHz) for wireless charging systems.

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JULY 2, 2012

Starting in the mid-1990s, the auto industry began considering a 42V power-net (for reasons similar to those noted above), and created a formal consortium, headquartered at MIT—the MIT/Industry Consortium on Advanced Automotive Electrical/Electronic Components and Systems —to help implement the standard.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Specifically, the project will demonstrate a 50-kW capacitive wireless charging system with 150 kW/m 2 power transfer density and 95% efficiency, while meeting fringing-field safety standards and increasing grid reliability by minimizing power pulsations. Ultra Light-weight Bidirectional DC-DC Converters for Electric Aircraft - $1,195,345.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. Levant Power Corp., This effect is most powerful when the vehicle is traveling on poor quality country roads.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

It will explore low-energy plasmas’ effectiveness in enhancing or controlling energy-related chemical processes, such as converting natural gas to larger molecules for producing liquid fuels or chemical feedstocks. Plasma Physics: The project will take advantage of Princeton’s world-leading facilities for studying plasma physics.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The DIGIT touch sensor is based on the GelSight style of sensor, which was first conceptualized at MIT over a decade ago. I do believe that the human hand is possibly the golden standard that we should compare against. DIGIT is open source, so you can make one on your own, but that's a hassle.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Referencing earlier work by the National Academy and MIT, German said that the P2 system can deliver 90% of the benefit at 1/3 of the cost of an input powersplit system using planetary gearing, as exemplified by the Toyota and Ford hybrid systems. Combined with the push from the proposed 2017?2025 Click to enlarge. Source: John German, ICCT.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. valve train vs. bearings). Light-weighting materials. Grantee Description. Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies Inc.

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MARCH 11, 2023

AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech. The less-lucrative stabilization services balanced electricity load and generation to maintain system frequency at 60 hertz, the standard for the United States. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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MARCH 1, 2023

Licklider, long a prominent evangelist for personal, interactive, networked computing through his roles at MIT, Bolt Beranek & Newman (a contract research company deeply involved in building the Internet, now Raytheon BBN), ARPA, IBM, and numerous professional organizations. He wasn’t the only convert.

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APRIL 29, 2022

The current gold-standard test for the SARS-CoV-2 takes several hours to create enough copies of the virus' genetic material to detect. MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. We hope to get promising results very soon," says researcher Changhao Li , a quantum engineer at MIT.

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JUNE 25, 2010

UOP has developed technology to convert sources like algae and camelina into Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, which meets all specifications for jet fuel and offers significant savings in greenhouse gas emissions. Ron Rich, vice president of Propulsion Systems, Honeywell Aerospace. Pratt & Whitney.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., Solar panels convert solar radiation to power linearly, in proportion to the amount of sunlight. But wind turbines convert wind to power at the wind speed cubed. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D. candidate, built the GenX electricity-system planning model.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. One of our first commercially launched color products, in 2010, used a color filter—an array of squares printed onto a layer of glass placed on top of the standard black-and-white ink layer.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

The company calls this dual-chemistry hybrid pack Gemini, and recently told Charged that it is enabled by utilizing cutting-edge cell technologies and a proprietary high-power-density DC-DC converter. A cell is built using a standard cathode material and a bare metal foil for the anode. What makes two different cells a good match?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

» Transportation | March 28, 2009 | by EV World The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles By Noel Adams Every so often I read articles, like the ones recently about a breakthrough from researchers at MIT, which will allow batteries to charge quickly, in this case, in 2 seconds.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ).

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