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Duke Energy and ITOCHU to assess second-life applications for Li-ion automotive batteries

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Initial testing will occur in Duke Energy’s Indiana service territory. The companies will assess how EV batteries perform in their “second lives,” including stationary applications in homes, neighborhoods and commercial buildings.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. During his career, he designed 14 patented electromechanical filters. He also wrote Mechanical Filters in Electronics , the first book in a series about the design, fabrication, and uses of filters.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. Under the guise of a contract for General Electric, Bushnell asked Alcorn to design a game similar to ping-pong that could be played on a television. If you miss, your opponent scores a point. vonguard/Wikipedia.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. Shrock Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Indiana University, Ritts is a National Science Foundation CAREER grant recipient, and an expert on oil and gas exploration. Previously the Robert R.

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FTA awarding $55M to 10 projects deploying battery-electric and fuel-cell buses

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Established under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the LoNo program focuses on deploying the cleanest and most energy-efficient US-made transit buses designed to cut CO 2 and criteria pollutant emissions. Grants from the LoNo program help transit agencies integrate more of these advanced buses into their fleets.

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Bright’s Plug-In Car: Aerodynamics Are Key

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This new company, Bright Automotive , is founded by ex-GM EV1 people, and the super efficient Rocky Mountain Institute to make plug-in hybrids in Indiana. Like Paul MacCready’s original design for the Impact that established the world’s lowest drag coefficient of.195, By Michael Kanellos, for Greentech Media.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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New vehicles to be deployed include 55 CNG vehicles, 363 propane vehicles, 89 hybrid electric vehicles, and 56 neighborhood electric vehicles. The initiative will also support the purchase of dedicated propane school buses and vehicles and, provide an innovative outreach program designed specifically to retrain and certify U.S.