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JULY 29, 2014

UK transport operator Go-Ahead Group has ordered 500 electric flywheel Gyrodrive systems from GKN Hybrid Power for use in buses. Useable stored energy is 1.2MJ, with peak power of 120kW. The GKN Hybrid Power Mk4 eFES is an electrically driven flywheel energy storage system. million (US$13-million) grant as part of a £15.6-million

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. Patrik Jones, Imperial College London, joint corresponding author. coli bacteria. Kalim Akhtar & Patrik R.

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JULY 18, 2023

Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department. He joined IEEE in 1963.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

He has been granted six patents. Kathleen Kramer JT MacMillan Kramer is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of San Diego , where she served as chair of the EE department and director of engineering from 2004 to 2013. As director she provided academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Jaguar Land Rover (lead company), Ford Motor Company, IAV (UK), CPT, BP, University of Nottingham, Imperial College London. Plug-in Car Grant. The Government also set out the eligibility criteria for its Plug-in Car Grant. The level of the Plug-In-Car Grant has been agreed until 31 March 2012.

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JULY 16, 2022

The balance seemed to turn with the emergence of nuclear-powered submarines in the early 1960s. as early as 2050 , according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. Nuclear-powered submarines, such as the Virginia - class fast-attack submarine, each cost roughly US $2.8

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For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K. argue that, “Focusing solely on electric vehicles is slowing down the race to zero emissions.”

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APRIL 23, 2014

In January, Dearman announced that it had completed its shakedown testing milestone at the end of 2013 at Imperial College, London, and was moving into a three-month program of tests and performance mapping. million) of which has come from the Technology Strategy Board grant. Earlier post. ). The IDP10-funded project will cost £3.25

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JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. On 8 July, the US Treasury provided guidance on the grants while timing is still unclear on when the first block of loan guarantees will be awarded.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The two discrete projects—ELEVATE (ELEctrochemical Vehicle Advanced Technology) and Ultra Efficient Engines and Fuels—will involve academics from eight UK universities. Other participating academic partners are: University of Warwick; University of Southampton; University College London; and University of Oxford.

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JULY 27, 2017

Royal Mail—since 2003 a quoted company with shares traded on the LSE—is the UK’s designated Universal Postal Service Provider. The lithium-ion battery pack is fitted under the load floor, ensuring there is no loss of load space compared with gasoline and diesel-powered Partner L2 models. The Partner Electric’s 22.5

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JUNE 7, 2022

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken , a professor of astronomy at Ankara University , convinced the teenager that electronics engineering was going to be the “next big thing.” Gelenbe has spent his entire career in academia, and he has established a computer research lab at just about every university where he taught. That was in the late 1950s.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Look at the periodic table, and think of the elements needed for a prosperous planet powered by renewable energy. A lot of people, they take sulfur for granted.” Jean-Michel Lavoie, University of Sherbrooke In swept the fossil fuel industry’s waste to save the day. A lot of people, they take sulfur for granted,” says Lavoie.

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MAY 9, 2013

Example power cycle of the cryogenic (e.g., A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. Williams, University of Birmingham. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

BMW of North America and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) are partnering on a year-long field study to determine the viability of electric vehicles. We are pleased as a public university to be partnering with BMW to find solutions to our urgent public problems of transportation energy supply and environmental impacts. —Dr.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Running on MIT’s TX-2 mainframe, it demanded too much computing power to be practical for individual use.

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JULY 13, 2009

The Leeds researchers, led by Dr. Valerie DuPont, claim that this process can be economical at small scale, unlike the conventional steam reforming process, and could thus be used in distributed power generation. It’s becoming increasingly necessary for scientists devising new technologies to limit the amount of carbon dioxide they release.

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