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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Wind-vortex generators: In 2016, 3M developed a technology to help wind turbines generate airflow more optimally to ensure they work better, in partnership with Smartblade. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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The University of Minnesota will develop an ultra-thin separation. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. copper and insulation layer by layer, instead of winding wires. Georgia Institute. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) will develop a. University of.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Sun Catalytix Corporation will develop a unique technology to split water into hydrogen and oxygen under benign conditions to enable storage of intermittent renewable solar and wind energy for around-the-clock use. The University of Minnesota and BioCee, Inc. Breakthrough High Efficiency Shrouded Wind Turbine.

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