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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Cars That Think

Her work at the plant, her academic research, and her involvement in IEEE have helped Ansari build her community within the global nuclear industry. She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. meter-long alternator, which weighs 3.2

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. solar installers. There is also. being considered.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. The company required incoming employees to go through a training program that taught them to install its telephone switch. But he was determined to be an engineer. members’ careers.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. He has been working with electric vehicles (EVs) since 1986, when he was involved with electric and hybrid development in the bus industry.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

Or make your own recyclable gift wrap by using newspapers, brown paper with twine, or magazine pages. As the TV commercials like to remind us, ‘this the season for giving a new car to that special person in your life’. Go one step further and install home solar panels and bi-directional meters that send excess energy to the grid.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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The Sneaky Standard

Cars That Think

Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. Ebbing demand for personal computers has slowed innovation in advanced PCs. The company was actually well-positioned to shape the direction of the industry through standardization.

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