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19 Nov

The Norwegian Company Blamed for California’s Hydrogen Car Woes

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In the meantime, Fulton says California has pivoted to building infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles like trucks and buses, with the hope that the passenger market can reboot with the help of a growing freight market.By focusing on the heavy-duty market, California can, in theory, create a stronger supply of clean hydrogen that brings costs down and increases availability, says Fulton, who is also an advisor to ARCHES, the California hydrogen hub that has won $1.2 billion of conditional funding from the US Department of Energy.“ARCHES is targeting 50 to 60 truck-oriented stations around the state by 2030, and with different…

15 Oct

A Rubberized Cybertruck Is Ploughing Through European Pedestrian Safety Rules

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The Cybertruck’s hood would also need to flex, and there should be no protrusions to gain a good NCAP pedestrian safety score.“The [Cybertruck’s] large wiper and boss would be a danger area,” predicts Avery.According to the transport NGOs, the modified Cybertruck was registered in the Czech Republic in July. The Czech Republic’s system of Individual Vehicle Approval was used to register it. The Czech transport ministry said all vehicles in the N1 category, in which the truck was registered, have weight ratios calculated from formulas in EU regulation from 2018. But the vehicle data it provided shows the Cybertruck does…

05 Oct

Hurricane Helene Destroyed Roads. Here’s How to Rebuild—and Flood-Proof Them for Next Time

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Typically, Muench says, the solution isn’t something too complicated: Just build infrastructure higher. But engineers can’t build roads and bridges to survive every disaster, which would lead to expensive, overbuilt projects that would “take generations to finish,” says Muench.‘Rice Krispie’ RoadsWhen engineers are rebuilding roads from scratch, they have also started to use different materials to account for the possibility of lots of water arriving really quickly. In the past decade, road builders have increasingly installed more permeable, “spongy” roads.Pervious concrete, unlike regular concrete, usually excludes sand from the typical “gravel, sand, cement, water” recipe. It also has a lower…

10 Sep

An Underwater Data Center in San Francisco Bay? Regulators Say Not So Fast

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NetworkOcean isn’t alone in its ambitions. Founded in 2021, US-based Subsea Cloud operates about 13,500 computer servers in unspecified underwater locations in Southeast Asia to serve clients in AI and gaming, says the startup’s founder and CEO, Maxie Reynolds. “It’s a nascent market,” she says. “But it’s currently the only one that can handle the current and projected loads in a sustainable way.”Subsea secured a permit for each site and uses remotely operated robots for maintenance, according to Reynolds. It plans to fire up its first underwater GPUs next year and also is considering private sites, which Reynolds says would…

28 Aug

The Paris Olympics Promised Flying Taxis—Here’s Why They Failed to Launch

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Six months before the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Dirk Hoke, CEO of Volocopter, was still hopeful. “[We’re] making people aware that this is not science fiction,” he told WIRED in February, touting the flying taxi as a sustainable, safe and quiet mode of transport that would become normal in just a few years. “It works and it starts this year.”Flights on Volocopter’s VoloCity model would be free-of-charge and initially three routes were planned across Paris. Even as those plans were made public, Hoke had yet to travel in one of his own vehicles. “I would love to,” he said, “but so…

22 Aug

How Much Will It Cost to Charge Your Electric Car? It’s Complicated

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Another weird feature of electricity pricing are demand charges. These are fees that EV charging site hosts pay, and are based on their highest usage, in 15-minute to one-hour intervals, during a pay period. These demand charges help utilities deal with the various costs of building and maintaining an electric grid. But they’re frustrating in the EV charging context, because some chargers get used very rarely—but when they are used demand a lot of electricity in a short amount of time. That leads to demand charges.These demand charges can hit the “hundreds of thousands annually for a specific site,” says…

18 Aug

Juice Spacecraft to Pass Earth En Route to Jupiter

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The European Space Agency's Juice craft will return to Earth on Monday night, taking part in a "world first" fly-by.Flight controllers from Esa will guide the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), with UK instruments on board, past the Moon and then Earth. Source link lol

16 Aug

Software Firm AvePoint Said to Weigh Second Listing in Singapore

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AvePoint Inc. is considering a second listing in Singapore, people with knowledge of the matter said, in a deal that would bring the US infrastructure software firm a step closer to some of its backers in Southeast Asia.AvePoint, which counts Singapore’s 65 Equity Partners among its investors, is working with advisers on a possible listing, the people said, asking not to be identified as the matter is private. The potential capital markets transaction could take place as early as in the next 12 months, the people said. Source link lol

15 Aug

Nvidia-Backed Cohesity Is Profitable, With 26% Revenue Growth

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Data security and management startup Cohesity is profitable and experienced revenue growth of 26% for its latest fiscal year, Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Poonen said in an interview on Bloomberg Television.Cohesity is backed by the SoftBank Vision Fund and Nvidia Corp. The company closed the fiscal year with $549 million in revenue, representing 26% growth from a year prior, Poonen said. It also turned free cash flow positive. Source link lol

15 Aug

USC Professor Lands $43 Million in Funding for AI Startup

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Sahara AI, a startup co-founded by a University of Southern California associate professor, has raised $43 million as it seeks to address thorny copyright and privacy issues surrounding artificial intelligence technology.The funding was led by Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain Capital and included investors such as Samsung, Matrix Partners, Nomad Capital as well as angel investors and founders from the industry, the startup said in a statement on Wednesday. It will deploy the capital to expand its team of experts and develop its technology. Source link lol