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

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. If too much or too little electricity is present in the power grid, the network can suddenly become unbalanced. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022).

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

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A memory capable of storing all the information for a single video frame; the contents of a frame buffer can be controlled by special software to produce or modify images. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Frame buffer.

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