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Panda Power Funds jointly to develop 1,000 MW coal to natural gas conversion project; Marcellus Shale gas

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The Hummel Generating Station will also use 97% less water for cooling purposes than the retired coal-fired Sunbury plant. The 30-acre Panda Hummel Station power facility will occupy part of the 192-acre Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone at the site of the recently retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant.

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Video Friday: Strandbeest

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia IEEE ARSO 2022 : 28–30 May 2022, Long Beach, Calif. During the summer I do all kinds of experiments with the wind, sand and water. Starship ] Our purpose-built vehicle is designed and engineered to drive safely in rain, hail, or shine. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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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. EPFL ] This is some very, very impressive robust behavior on ANYmal, part of Joonho Lee's master's thesis at ETH Zurich. [ ETH Zurich ] NTT DOCOMO, INC. ETH Zurich ] NTT DOCOMO, INC.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. Warren went on to work in Michigan as an engineer for the Saginaw Valley Traction Co.,

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

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The first robot I built from scratch was SS MAPR , an autonomous boat for water departments to collect multidepth water-quality data. After six months of 80-hour weeks and sleepless nights, SS MAPR was able to finish its maiden voyage with water samples and data collected from the bottom of the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania.

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China. —Sun et al. The laser-based sensors were smaller, easier to work with and more accurate than previously used sensors, Zondlo said.

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Video Friday: Pompeii Spot

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Enjoy today's videos! Naver Labs ] EPFL engineers have developed a silicone raspberry that can help teach harvesting robots to grasp fruit without exerting too much pressure.