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DOE announces $29M in funding for fusion energy technology development

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University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.

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Video Friday: Robot vs. Door

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NASA ] The KUKA Innovation Award has been held annually since 2014 and is addressed to developers, graduates, and research teams from universities and companies. Team SPIRIT from the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center worked on the automation of maintenance and inspection tasks in the oil and gas industry.

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NREL Study Finds UPS First-Generation Hybrid Vans Deliver Almost 29% Greater Fuel Economy

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Funded by the DOE’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA), NREL’s Fleet Test & Evaluation (FT&E) team performed a 12-month evaluation of six MY 2007 P70D hybrid vans and six MY 2006 P70D standard diesel vans at a UPS location in Phoenix, collecting and analyzing fuel economy, maintenance and other vehicle performance data.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Phoenix, Ariz., This situation is not true universally. trillion in capital, operations, and maintenance costs by 2035. There are some 465 cities in the United States with populations between 50,000 and 100,000 residents, and another 315 that are larger, many facing similar challenges. million miles of power lines.

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Renault-Nissan Alliances Forms EV Partnership in Phoenix Metro Area; Beginning of a Phoenix-Tucson EV Charging Corridor

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Nissan and the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG), which represents the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan region, are forming a partnership to advance zero-emission mobility by promoting the development of an electric vehicle (EV) charging network. Phoenix is about 116 miles (187 km) from Tucson via the 10.). ECOtality Inc.

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Enthusiasm electric!

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Many of the chapter members are very involved in teaching and certifying service and maintenance technicians for light electric vehicles. Scottsdale is part of the greater Phoenix area, the fastest growing city in the US, so it is no wonder that it is expanding so quickly.

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The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

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A grid-tied PV system is a lot less complicated, is easier to install and takes far less maintenance than a battery-based system and that was I was there to learn, but that’s not all Scott Carlson our instructor wanted to teach us. In 1997, he started Carlson Solar in Hemet, while still working part time for the University.

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