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Daimler Trucks’ FUSO introduces eCanter SensorCollect concept refuse truck

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Daimler Trucks’ Japan-based subsidiary FUSO recently introduced the eCanter SensorCollect concept truck with a demonstration run at its Kawasaki headquarters. The FUSO eCanter SensorCollect is a concept garbage collection truck based on the all-electric eCanter. Through these events, more than 100 ideas to date have been generated.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951.

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SCAD students throw out traditional auto design ideas, create two fully functional EV concept cars – Charged EVs

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At the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Low Country, the assignment for industrial design students was fairly straightforward: Build a beautiful concept car—but make it fully functional at the same time. To do this, the students worked with industry mentors and faculty who are well-regarded in the field.

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New concept with anthraquinone-based organic cathode advances aluminum battery technology

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Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, have developed a new concept for an aluminum battery delivering twice the energy density as previous versions, made of abundant materials, and with the potential to reduce production costs and environmental impact.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston. tesla magnetic field in 2014.

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National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition

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Led by physicist John Nuckolls, who later served as LLNL director from 1988 to 1994, this idea became inertial confinement fusion, kicking off more than 60 years of research and development in lasers, optics, diagnostics, target fabrication, computer modeling and simulation and experimental design.

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Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing With Tesla Bot

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Tesla's AI Day , Elon Musk introduced a concept for "Tesla Bot," a 125 lb, 5'8" tall electromechanically actuated autonomous bipedal "general purpose" humanoid robot. By "concept," I mean that Musk showed some illustrations and talked about his vision for the robot, which struck me as, let's say, somewhat naïve. Not impossible, no.

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