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The laser physicist unlocking navigation technology

Physics World

We owe this convenient technology to global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) – such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), Galileo and BeiDou – which regularly broadcast radio-waves from their orbits around the Earth. But these capacitive signals are easily overwhelmed by electrical noise in the device’s circuitry, Li explains.

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Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability?

Union of Concerned Scientists

What happens when promise of electricity reliability fails in bad weather? We know that consumers pay for electricity reliability and bear the cost when supplies are tight. Consider what happened in New York City and northern New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. That can prove disastrous.

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China’s premier particle collider set for major upgrade

Physics World

They are then smashed together to generate a variety of subatomic particles inside the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII), which records the trajectories, energies and electric charges of the particles that are produced. . In particular, in 2012 BESIII recorded collisions that pointed to a particle that researchers were not familiar with.

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Illinois Utilities Ameren and ComEd Plan for the Grid of the Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2

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The future of high-performance computing: are neuromorphic systems the answer?

Physics World

With his Stanford team, Bill developed much of the technology that is found in most large parallel computers today and previously made significant advances at MIT and CalTech. Ralph’s research spans a range of electrical and computer-engineering topics. He does not think that neural computing needs to be neuromorphic to be effective.

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California’s Secret Weapon: The Scoping Plan

Legal Planet

It’s also difficult to ensure that the right steps are being taken at the right time – for instance, when there’s a surge in electric vehicles, that there will be enough charging stations and enough renewable energy to keep them going. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice

Union of Concerned Scientists

Uber founded in 2009; Lyft in 2012), public micromobility systems such as scooters and bikeshares, electrification, shared automated vehicles : all came with the promise of “ faster, smarter, greener ” cities that would be “ connected, heterogenous, intelligent and personalized.” New ride hailing services (e.g.,