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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

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BASF and Samsung Heavy develop new anti-sloshing, anti-boil-off solution for LNG tankers

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The BASF/SHI anti-sloshing solution consists of a blanket of blocks of Basotect foam with buoys, which are stitched into Vectran textile covers and connected with Vectran belts. This means that about five percent more LNG can be stored and the production cost can be saved in the simplified tank shape. Click to enlarge.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” This is good for the grid. Kempton and Letendre’s. That could change soon.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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While a wireless charger saves you from having to connect and disconnect cables repeatedly, the distance over which energy can be delivered this way is quite short. This wouldn’t be such a silly connection to make. also for vehicles. But his dream of sending electric power over great distances without wires has persisted.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

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At Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, there’s a branch of Renaissance Books , a beloved local used-book store ( located in the main terminal before security). Washington State University began experimenting with canning cheese in the 1930s, in search of packaging that would prolong the product’s shelf life.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. This scale model of a floating wind-turbine platform is one of 10 new designs being tested at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility. Peter Fairley This rush to deep water is a global phenomenon. wind-power industry.)

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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DigitalGlobe (which Maxar acquired in 2017) recently announced that it had managed to send data from a satellite down to a ground station and then store it in the cloud in less than a minute. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, for example, uses satellite imagery to locate archaeological sites of interest.

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