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Panda Power finances conversion of retired coal plant to natural gas; one of largest power conversion projects in US

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The Panda Hummel generating station will also help preserve Pennsylvania’s fresh water resources by using 97% less water for cooling purposes than the retired coal-fired Sunbury plant. The turbines for the Hummel generating station will be manufactured at Siemens’ manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. Warren quietly revolutionized power transmission by installing an electric clock in the L Street generating station of Boston’s Edison Electric Illuminating Co. He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

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We will need a lot of workforce to install and maintain these facilities at the front lines, which are not always well suited to humans. The first robot I built from scratch was SS MAPR , an autonomous boat for water departments to collect multidepth water-quality data.

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Video Friday: Dronut

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Soft Robotics ] Refilling water bottles isn't a very complex task, but having a robot do it means that humans don't have to. ETH Zurich ] NTT DOCOMO, INC. ugo ] Robot, make me a sandwich.

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