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Fundamental Energy Transitions Can Take a Century

Cars That Think

I will demonstrate this by looking at a few key developments in electricity generation and residential consumption in the United States, which has reliable statistics for all but the earliest two decades of the electric period. Lighting remained the dominant use for electricity in the household for the next three decades.

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Pfizer’s Edge in the COVID-19 Vaccine Race: Data Science

Cars That Think

Pfizer dominated news headlines and family dinner conversations last December when it became the first company to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Led by Frank DePierro , this group of researchers crunched and chronicled all of the clinical trial data that led to a green light from the U.S. We also use R for statistical analysis.

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

EV Adoption

Below is a simple and typical example of the confusing and inconsistent use of the term “charging station” from a news article shared on Twitter. To attempt to shine a light on this confusion and inconsistent usage, I conducted a simple and very unscientific poll on Twitter. Charging Station Twitter Poll.

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Opinion: Politicians Are Lying About Biden's EPA Rule

The Truth About Cars

Conversely, don't let the other side oversell things -- while reducing tailpipe emissions is a necessary step forward in fighting the negative effects of climate change, the production of the materials needed for electric and electrified vehicles has its own environmental toll. It's not a ban on cars or internal-combustion engine cars.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. If in addition to normal electric use in homes such as lights and appliances, we charge the PHEV cars at 2 kW at the appropriate times, we could increase the utility factor of the already-installed wires in homes to more than 25%, still leaving plenty of safety margin and capacity. slow charge.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Much serious work got done electronically as well: reports, articles, sometimes entire design projects were done through the network. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. It appeared in the October 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Cars That Think

The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). Midjourney produced these images of The Simpsons.

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