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Why the 2010s Were a Definitive Decade for Power

January 1, 2020 admin aeroderivative power, batteries, Business, business models, climate change, Coal, community solar, connected plant, decentralization, ders, distributed energy, distributed power, EIA, Energy Storage, Environmental, fuel cells, Gas, gas power, general, History, Hydro, hydrogen, iea, iiot, iiot power, industrial devices, International, irena, Markets, mindsphere, module prices, news, Nuclear, offshore wind, predix, reciprocating engines, Renewables, rooftop solar, shale gas, Solar, solar pv, supply chains, T&D, Technology, virtual power plants, Wind

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 04:03:12 +0000

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Every one of the 13 decades that POWER magazine has been in print has been definitive for electric generation technology, policy, and business in some significant way, but few have been as transformative as the 2010s. The decade opened just as the global economy began to crawl toward recovery from a historically unprecedented downturn that […]

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Old Reno & The Promise Of New Reno. How Is Tesla Gigafactory Shifting Nevada?

November 28, 2019 admin brothels, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, green jobs, History, homeless shelters, Homelessness, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, mustang ranch, policy & politics, reno, reno nevada, research, sparks, sparks nevada, tesla gigafactory 1, tesla gigafactory nevada, tesla model 3, United States, US

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:01:15 +0000

Forget the latest Hollywood film noir and spend some time learning about this story instead. The story is that of Reno, Nevada, and the location of the original Tesla Gigafactory. The historical drama, a true story, unfolds with twisting and dark details. The story came to light due to the notable new podcast series The City (USA Today’s investigative podcast). Episode 4 of season 2 is titled “West World.”

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Artists Used Deepfake Tech to Tell Alternate Moon Landing History

November 25, 2019 admin AI, deepfakes, face swap, History, moon landing

Credit to Author: DJ Pangburn| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:03:34 +0000

A deepfake resurrects Richard Nixon to give an alternate moon landing speech.

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Tesla (Competition) Deathwatch: Gottlieb

November 20, 2019 admin bally, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gottlieb, History, midway, tesla, tesla (competition) deathwatch, video games

Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 05:22:38 +0000

As I noted in my prior article, when I wrote the first article in this series, I intended to take a quick historical look at one industry and then move on to diving into some of today’s automakers to see what risk the EV revolution had to their business. I still do intend to do that, but the comments in the first article pointing out flaws with the Kodak comparison made me want to do some further dives into historical industry disruptions

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What if We Treated Websites Like Federally Protected Historic Places?

November 6, 2019 admin History, Internet, tedium, Yahoo!

Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:04:18 +0000

Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.

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Why Would You Ever Want to Live in 2019?

October 7, 2019 admin feature, gabriel and sarah chrisman, History, identity-culture, victorian

Credit to Author: Harry Cheadle| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:12:32 +0000

You may remember Gabriel and Sarah Chrisman as the couple who went viral for living as if they were in Victorian times. Four years later, looking at their life—and the reaction to it—outlines our society’s most pressing cultural battles.

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Climate Change Could Erase Human History. These Archivists Are Trying to Save It

September 17, 2019 admin archives, cemetery, climate change, History

Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:29:32 +0000

Climate change making the word hotter, more humid, and more stormy—all conditions that put sensitive paper archives at risk. This problem is forcing us to ask, which histories will we choose to remember?

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Japan’s Abe sends offering to controversial Yasukuni shrine

August 14, 2019 admin China, History, Japan, Latest News Stories, South korea, World, ww ii, yasukuni

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:39:50 +0000

TOKYO — Japan’s premier sent a ritual cash offering to a controversial Tokyo war shrine to mark the end of World War II Thursday but did not visit in person amid heightened tensions with South Korea. Abe Shinzo sent an aide to Yasukuni Shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan’s military past, […]

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Chinese army releases promo video for Hong Kong troops

August 1, 2019 admin Army, China, conflict, Diplomacy, extradition bill, History, Hong Kong, international news, Latest News Stories, Military, news, People’s Liberation Army, politics, protest, World, World News

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:42:09 +0000

The Chinese army has released a promotional video for its Hong Kong-based troops at a time of uncertainty over whether the military will intervene in the city’s summer of protest.

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