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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

Cars That Think

Seen here near the port of Seattle, in 1962, the NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. We needed to get the conversation started.” The majority of global shipbuilding happens in South Korea, Japan, and China. Hundreds of nuclear reactors have since been used on ships and submarines. How is it arranged?

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

Cars That Think

Our goal: to listen in on the electrical conversations taking place among thousands of neurons at once in any given thimbleful of brain tissue. How does our neural system map the position of an individual within a physical environment? In 2010, I met with leading neuroscientists at the. What regulates behaviors essential to survival?

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org. or s.peeraer@spinnovation.com.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

Green Car Congress

Construction of US manufacturing capabilities to produce the second-generation GM global rear-wheel electric drive system. Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. Project locations. Technology. General Motors Corporation. White Marsh, MD Wixom, MI. Delphi Automotive Systems, LLC. Kokomo, IN.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

He used to fly the Boeing 777s at Air India - and he now flies the Global Express. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In Jayram works with Google and has been staying at Seattle for two decades before that.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Never discount Toyota.

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