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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

Green Car Congress

Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. Nevada Las.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

In January 1982, a home computer incorporating those chips was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev. Instead, he decided, the chips would go into a 64-kilobyte home computer to be introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the second week of January 1982. It’s only sand.”

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The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

I like to use the example of someone driving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. You could leave Los Angeles and drive to Baker, stop and have a meal while the car recharges, and have plenty of juice to make it to your hotel in Vegas. The cost of putting these on major freeways would be very high but the technology already exists.