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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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Nearly 400 exhibitors representing the boldest energy innovations in the United States came together last week at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. The company is evaluating several tailings sites in the United States, including in upstate New York. The conference, hosted in Dallas by the U.S.

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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

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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. In the case of moving water, a turbine harvests the energy in the flow to generate hydroelectricity.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Europe’s 125,000 irregular immigrants in 2019 also number fewer per capita than irregular immigrants to the United States, which has just three quarters the population of the European Union yet reported more than 1 million irregular immigrants at its borders in 2019. Meanwhile, the European Union spends at least €2 billion (US $2.13

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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But overcoming these obstacles ensures that when the United States goes to the moon this time, we’re going together with our allies.” S-Band and X-band radios will connect Gateway with vehicles on the lunar surface, such as the Starship. A new era of exploration is at hand. Astronauts will push into deep space.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 Previously, land between airports had been represented by patches of color—green for forests, gray for urban, blue for water. Scot Bayless, the studio manager overseeing the team, says an early demo left Bill Gates stunned.

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