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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. Watch the blue cooling liquid immediately disappear from the tube after it’s chopped.)

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Charging piles will become standard in new buildings in the UK

Setec Powerr

” “We are investing in new projects to convert wind energy into hydrogen, and our net zero strategy is expected to trigger around £90 billion in private sector investment, driving the creation of high-wage, high-skilled jobs as we unite and raise the bar across the country. part of the mission.” The UK will invest £9.4

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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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Global Bioenergies widens cooperation with Audi; new agreement to broaden feedstocks for bio-isobutene to isooctane process

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Global Bioenergies will use its demo plant, presently under construction on the site of the Leuna refinery, to produce these batches. As a 100% drop-in fuel, isooctane can be used in any blending ratio with all standard fuels for gasoline motors. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. Here’s what flexibility means when it comes to operating, say, a residential electric water heater.

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Toyota introduces 2012 Prius Plug-in Hybrid

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The production plug-in hybrid has a number of key changes from the 125 prototype demo units that were deployed in the field for testing and customer feedback. The demo units defaulted to EV mode. The engine also uses an electrically driven air conditioning compressor and water pump to reduce mechanical losses.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The demos, he recalled, ran 24 hours a day for nearly a week. Goodbye BBN, Hello DARPA Kahn officially left BBN the day after the demo concluded to join DARPA (the agency having recently added the word “Defense” to its name). There was a steep trail that went up the side of a fjord, water coming down the opposite side.

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