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EGEB: No. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022

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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas is expected to add record utility-scale solar in the next two years. The Welsh capital of Cardiff is getting 36 e-buses – the largest order outside of London to date. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022 appeared first on Electrek.

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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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This Texas Instruments calculator, called the Little Professor, debuted in 1976 and proved an instant hit. A 9-volt battery powered the Texas Instrument TMS0975NL integrated circuit and the eight-digit LED display. Texas Instruments still makes a version of the Little Professor, only now it’s sustainably powered with solar cells.)

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Study: PM2.5 pollution reduces global life expectancy by more than one year

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Led by Joshua Apte in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, the team used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study to measure PM 2.5 Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. air pollution exposure and its consequences in 185 countries. Cohen, Majid Ezzati, and C.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

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This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. Wing ] Pollen Robotics’ team will be going to ICRA 2023 in London! Wing ] Pollen Robotics’ team will be going to ICRA 2023 in London! Please send us your events for inclusion.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. She left the University of Texas in 2005 to join Rice University. A bridge between EE and health care Richards-Kortum joined IEEE while teaching at the University of Texas. “I After earning her Ph.D.

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Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

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Air Products’ carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas captures 90% of the CO 2 via Vacuum Swing Adsorption from 2 steam-methane reformers (SMRs) yielding 1,000,000 tons CO 2 /year. The technology in the demo—the first of its kind operating at such a large scale—has not been accomplished anywhere else in the United States.

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Tesla Gigafactory UK? Elon Musk’s quick stop in England drives rumors

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Musk landed at London Luton Airport on May 14th and stayed for two days before loading back up into his Gulfstream G650 and heading off to Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Sunday. Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas are still under construction, and plans for a new Gigafactory in India have also circulated for the past few months.

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