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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

Cars That Think

He is a cofounder of InterEngineering , a London-based nonprofit dedicated to greater inclusion in engineering. Based in London, it organizes networking events, funds prizes and grants, and arranges visits to interesting engineering projects around the country.

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500 tickets for Grand Designs Live up for grabs with myenergi

My Energi

myenergi is giving away 500 tickets for this year’s Grand Designs Live show at ExCeL London from Friday 30 April Sunday 8 May. To be in with a chance of winning, simply ‘like’ myenergi on Facebook or Instagram and comment on the prize post tagging the person you’d most like to take with you.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I The grant provided the seed money to launch their startup that year: Green Village Electricity Projects of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I still remember the number, down to the last dollar.”

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

They also offer a grant of up to £1,500 off the list price of electric vehicles as well, automatically lowering the price-tag you see on showroom floors. Low emission zones are where the real savings are to be had though – especially for businesses operating within the ULEZ in London, as the daily £12.50 Availability.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. and University College London. And it didn’t work as expected. “It

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"Spirit" Back at Home Sweet Bisbee But With Safford in Graham Cty and Clifford in Greenlee Cty as well as Bookmans in Mind

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Owner, Bob Oldfather, has extended a personal invitation to the "Spirit" to charge up at 1130 E. Grant Road. The "Spirit" is all charged up, but it's not quite the same for EVJerr, except mentally where it comes to next "Plug-in Arizona" EVentures. And assumingly at the other Bookmans in Tucson as well as in Mesa.

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