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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

Cars That Think

Early experiments used a dummy because the many incandescent lights needed to provide sufficient illumination made it too hot and bright for a person. The resolution was about as far from high definition as you could get, showing shadowy silhouettes in motion. The image could be seen on a ground glass plate.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. We definitely need an urban charging grid if the electric car is to find a place in town, where it’s needed most.

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