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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

Creative Greenius

It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. I intend to read the Breeze’s few local articles of community interest for free on their highly unattractive website. And when I say ‘now,’ I mean as in hours ago ,&# said Galliani who informed the three editors of their termination via e-mail.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer.

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The Rise of Groupware

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The introduction of local- and wide-area networks into the personal computer environment and the development of mail systems are leading toward some of the directions explored on the earlier systems. However, some of the experiences of those earlier pioneering systems should be considered anew in evolving newer collaborative environments.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." The photocell, for instance, operating with as little as 15 picoamperes, had to maintain its state in an environment in which the motor, the solenoids, and the firing of the flash lamps drew amperes of current. At the final count, some 400 transistors were used.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?” .

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