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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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Emily Waltz Made with a liquified gas electrolyte instead of the standard liquid solvent, a new kind of lithium-ion battery that stands up to extreme cold, made by South 8 Technologies in San Diego, won’t freeze until temps drop below –80 °C. The Houston-based company’s geoengineered system stores energy as pressurized water deep underground.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolysis is used for hydrogen production. Phase 1: Renewable energy.

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We drove the 500hp electric Arc Sport and holy heck, this thing rips

Baua Electric

Arc has built the first models of its much-anticipated Arc Sport 500hp electric wake boat, and we got a chance to take it for a quick demo in Long Beach, CA and holy heck, this thing rips. Wake boats have been growing in popularity lately, both for standard boating activities and for wakeboarding/wakesurfing.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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Such cooperation also requires interoperability standards that extend to the commercial partners in the wider Artemis program. S-Band and X-band radios will connect Gateway with vehicles on the lunar surface, such as the Starship. Who’s Shooting for the Moon? A new era of exploration is at hand. Astronauts will push into deep space.

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

Plug In India

Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. First, use water to cool down the battery to avoid further combustion. Water seeping into these speakers is yet to be seen. Punjab doesn’t have any state subsidy so landed up paying ₹ 1.56

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Engineering the First Fitbit: The Inside Story

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Or something that was dumb and not connected to software. And we wanted something that could provide social connection, like photo sharing did.” Another standard they didn’t use was the ubiquitous USB charging connection. “We Then came the demo. We couldn’t use USB,” Park says. “It It just took up too much volume.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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In a simulation, the aggregated load from 1,000 electric water heaters [solid orange line] almost exactly matches renewable energy supply [dashed gold line] after packetized control is switched on [vertical dotted line]. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. kilowatt-hours.