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Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. One HTS induction heater now moving to commercialization rotates a metal ingot within a magnetic field to generate eddy currents within the metal. The wire had become a “superconductor.”
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JUNE 9, 2024
I worked on this idea for months before I decided it was a mistake. The second time I heard someone mention it, I thought, “That’s strange, these two groups had the same idea. I call this idea “The Mythical Non-Roboticist.” The Mistake The idea goes something like this: Programming robots is hard. Famously hard.
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JULY 21, 2022
Over the years, memory has been made up of vacuum tubes, glass tubes filled with mercury and, most recently, semiconductors. Williams , Tom Kilburn , and Geoff Tootill developed and built the machine and its storage system—the Williams-Kilburn tube—at the University of Manchester. One such researcher was British engineer F.C.
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AUGUST 10, 2021
He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. But Electro didn't act on his idea, so he left in 1957 to start his own venture, Holt Instrument Laboratories , in his hometown: Oconto, Wis. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society. Johnson served in the U.S.
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NOVEMBER 25, 2023
But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. Rather, the panels reach far beyond Earth’s atmosphere to tap the distant cold of deep space. Sound crazy?
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. At Northeastern University , in Boston, Matteo Rinaldi's group has demonstrated an event-driven sensor that could help detect a forest fire by reacting to the infrared light emitted from a hot object. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in
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