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Singapores A*Star Awards S$27.5M In Research Grants for Technologies for Sustainable Development

Green Car Congress

Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5 In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation.

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Flexible Monocopter Drone Can Be Completely Rolled Up

Cars That Think

Flying robots are usually way, way, way over-engineered, with ridiculously over the top components like two whole wings or an obviously ludicrous four separate motors. While F-SAM's control board was custom designed and the wing requires some fabrication, the rest of the parts are cheap and off the shelf.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products. Wang says the engineers come from Chinas best schools.

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