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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. The Atlantic Monthly And yet, if you watched this year’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer , Bush is only a minor character.

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Researchers successfully engineer E. coli to produce renewable propane; proof-of-concept

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. Although we have only produced tiny amounts so far, the fuel we have produced is ready to be used in an engine straight away.

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NREL study finds high-pressure hydrogen pipeline system could potentially make hydrogen cost-competitive with gasoline

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Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that a dispensed cost of about $7/kg must be achieved to make FCEVs competitive with gasoline internal combustion engine vehicles in early FCEV markets. The realization of the proposed HyLine system would require addressing a number of engineering and policy issues, the researchers note.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). A car lets you travel faster than walking; a computer lets you process data at an inhuman speed; and a search engine lets you easily find information. CSUN Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering. Your smartphone is getting smarter.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

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And this starts with the term “charging station” Engineers — bless their souls — love to use technical terms, acronyms, and correct you when you use a term that is easy for consumers to understand, but not technically correct. In the EV industry the poster child of this is the term “charger.” We have a choice.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

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Crucially, Atari engineers decided that they would use a microchip for the VCS instead of a custom chip. the engineer who convinced the CEO of Intel to apply the law of scalability to the design and development of processors. Ford’s engineers broke down the assembly process of the Model T into 84 discrete steps. Watson Jr. ,

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U Waterloo, GM R&D team develops new very high-performance silicon-sulfur-graphene electrode for Li-ion batteries

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Current LIBs [Li-ion battery] systems utilize graphite anodes, where energy is stored by intercalating lithium into the graphite layers. Significant efforts have been devoted to tackling these problems by engineering Si-based electrodes at the nanoscale. … —Hassan et al.

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