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DOE issues RFI on advanced thermal insulation for cold/cryogenic compressed gas on-board fuel storage

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Alternative fuels could include hydrogen or natural gas stored onboard the vehicle at sub-ambient temperatures as a compressed gas, liquefied gas or adsorbed onto a porous material. The workshop will be held on 29 October 2015, in Dallas, Texas.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. Cupertino, Calif.,

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Generally, a multitasking operating system tracks the progress of each of the programs it is running and then stores the entire state of each program—the values of its variables, the location of the program counter, and so on.

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