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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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After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and received a master's degree in industrial management as a Sloan Fellow at MIT. White served in the U.S. He joined the U.S.

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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. Brandt, in Energy Resources Engineering, led a national study last year on methane leaks in the US natural gas system. Earlier post.). Ritts, most recently with Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration & Production Co.,

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The EV Professor

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In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. I constructed the curriculum with another professor in the engineering school,” he said. The students were primarily in electrical or mechanical engineering. Sound familiar?”

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong.

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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. million gallons of gas consumed by those white little trucks trolling your neighborhood. The car will go 30 miles on batteries before the gas engine kicks in and be street-legal.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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Using a framework originally developed by researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Georgia Tech team estimated VMT (vehicle miles travelled) in response to three census variables: median household income, vehicle ownership, and employment rate, plus the neighborhood type classification. Stone et al.

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