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South Korean EV Company to Open Two Production and Distribution Facilities in Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell made the announcement at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. CT&T makes low- and mid-speed, short-distance neighborhood electric vehicles that pass crash tests required for regular passenger cars. The vehicles sell for about $12,000.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. Delaine Access to fresh produce is challenging in many low-income neighborhoods. Six students from Arizona State University , in Tempe, created Project Lake Litter Solutions.

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UCL study suggests reducing car use is the key to better health; the role of car sharing and other approaches

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With just 39% of men and 29% of women in the UK reaching the Department of Health’s recommended level of health-enhancing physical activity, the answer to the UK’s growing obesity problem could depend on people choosing to swap car journeys for walking and cycling, according to a new study by researchers at University College London (UCL).

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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The goal is to enable communities to quickly build a low-cost, low-power, and yet still portable network that meets their own connectivity and education needs.” The goal is to enable communities to quickly build a low-cost, low-power, and yet still portable network that meets their own connectivity and education needs.”

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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For the SONYC project, the backbone technology is the high quality, low cost and robust Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) microphones, while for FloodNet, the sensors operate using a downwards facing ultrasonic pulse created by a piezo transducer with a receiver that sits behind the transducer to detect the reflections of the pulse. "The

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

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. BIOMASS ENERGY.

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ARPA-E to host workshop on gensets for efficient small-scale distributed generation

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This workshop will address the challenges and opportunities associated with developing low-cost electrical generator sets (gensets) with very high energy-conversion efficiency. The primary goal of the workshop is to identify the most challenging technological barriers to achieving very high efficiency low-cost gensets.

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