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Taiwan Reboots Its Solar-Power Fishponds

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But on this densely populated island—slightly larger than Maryland, smaller than the Netherlands—there’s not a lot of open space to install solar panels. Taiwan is striving to massively expand renewable generation to sustain its semiconductor fabs, and solar is expected to play a large role. The fishponds are hard to ignore.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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Vannevar Bush and the Funding of Science & Engineering Beginning in 1940, and with the ear of the president and leading scientific and engineering organizations, Vannevar Bush promoted the importance of supporting all aspects of research, including in universities, the military, and industry. And it deepened during the long Cold War.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , in California, with funding from Google Research , achieved favorable results with a similar electron-screened fusion setup. Among those interested parties is NASA. Researchers at.

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Experts use AI tools to find key environmental factors impacting car accidents – ET Auto

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New Delhi: Experts have used artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as Google Street View (GSV) that offer 360-degree views of streets, to determine key environmental elements impacting car-related collisions, and cyclist & pedestrian-related accidents.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. Not according to an ALPR photo snapped in rural Maryland at 8:44 a.m. on 6 January. Over the past two years, the U.S. And track they did.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. PITCH: If you support our goals, you could support CalCars with a tax-deductible donation in any amount by credit card, check, PayPal or Google Checkout. $25 The company partners with approved installers charging $1,200-$3,000. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp. IEEE RICHARD W.

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