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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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M3 Wave Energy Systems LLC (Salem, Oregon) will explore the commercial viability of the submerged Delos-Reyes Morrow Pressure Device (DMP), an innovative air pressure device utilizing bi-directional turbines for converting ocean wave energy into electricity. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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The Kuka website doesn't say how much this thing costs, which means it's almost certainly not something that you impulse buy. Kuka ] We present the tensegrity aerial vehicle, a design of collision-resilient rotor robots with icosahedron tensegrity structures. It can achieve a high average swimming speed of 3.74 mean, um, all our jobs?

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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The Oregon Trail came out in 1971 and is still with us.) Its 3D presentation could reach nine frames per second, which was outstanding for the era. Artwick often claimed in presentations that subLogic’s software could be used for flight simulation— a suggestion that brought gasps from the audience. s PDP-11 minicomputer.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

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Making electric vehicles affordable will be critical for them to have an impact on the environment, as vehicle ownership continues to rise quickly. Another notable battery car, though its producer decided to skip the Shanghai show, is a super-low-cost, two-seat mini electric car that Chinese parts producer Wonder Auto Technology Inc.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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startled the world of high technology by presenting the first ever 1-million-transistor microprocessor, which was also the company’s first such chip to use a reduced instruction set. At the weekly meetings, each engineer who had completed a piece of the design would present his results. In San Francisco on Feb. 27, 1989, Intel Corp.,

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). Emitters will generally consider their costs of reducing emissions to the level required by their current holdings of allowances, and compare this with the market price of allowances.

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