These goggles have a couple of advantages – chief among which, the fact they don’t throw any light into the environment, ruining your stealthy silhouette – but they also have a drawback. They do tend to eat battery power faster than the simple flashlight, so you’ll need to pump that charger more frequently if you favour the goggles over the flashlight.

"MXenes are the key to helping silicon reach its potential in batteries," Gogotsi said. "Because MXenes are two-dimensional materials, there is more room for the ions in the anode and they can move more quickly into it — thus improving both capacity and conductivity of the electrode. They also have excellent mechanical strength, so silicon-MXene anodes are also quite durable up to 450 microns thickness."

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Detailed analyses of the effect of the position of the primary conductors in figure 5 shows that the cancellation of I1 and I2 is not perfect and the residual magnetic field in the air gap depends on their position. Therefore, it was decided to fix the stationary primary positions by placing them on a multi-layer PCB inside the transducer. Furthermore, only a few dozen turns are required for the secondary coil for RCM, which means they can also be designed as traces on the PCB. In this way, an innovative sensor has been designed whose construction is far simpler than that of earlier sensors. Having the primary conductors on a PCB limits the maximum primary current, but the allowed value of 35 A in each conductor is more than enough for domestic installations.

New Mike misses his truck, but is adapting. He drives a Mitsubishi Outland PHEV (plug-in electric hybrid vehicle), a “green” SUV with towing capacity. It’s much lower to the road, and he sometimes forgets that it’s on because it’s so quiet. But it gets the equivalent of 72 miles per gallon of gas, which is real money in New Mike’s pocket.

According to its media release, Hybrid Systems will deliver the bulk of the systems, having been awarded a multi-million dollar contract for the supply, delivery, installation and operation of 49 of the 57 SPSs across regional WA.

Campers Scotland has developed its intriguing 191-in (485-cm) Eco Explorer hybrid mini-campervan by mining the Japanese used market for what it describes as mint-condition Toyota Alphard Hybrid vans. It uses the same strategy for its Mitsubishi D:5 Terrain camper van and describes itself as one of the largest UK importers of these types of affordable, high-quality used Japanese base vans.

Additionally, Mark McGranaghan, vice president of distribution and energy utilization at the Electric Power Research Institute, said, “Singling out inverters doesn’t even make that much sense.” He agreed that a lot of inverters aren’t connected to the internet.

China Sunergy Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets solar cells and modules in the People’s Republic of China and internationally. The company offers monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon solar cells; and standard P-type solar cells, HP solar cells, and emitter cells, as well as solar modules for use in a range of residential, commercial, industrial, and other solar power generation systems. It also invests in, develops, and operates solar power projects. The company sells its products to system integrators, solar power project developers, and solar power product distributors under the CSUN brand name, as well as on an original equipment manufacturing basis. China Sunergy Co., Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Nanjing, the People’s Republic of China.

It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that the first floating photovoltaic system was built in population-dense Japan in 2007, according to a report by the World Bank. The United States was an early adopter, with the first commercial installation atop a reservoir near a California winery in 2008. (Apparently, the vintner believed the land could be better used to grow more grapes for overpriced Merlot.) Of course, it didn’t take long for China to get into the act, finding yet another way to kick America’s ass in tech to become the leader in the floating solar PV industry.

Virtually all commercially available GaN power semiconductors are now lateral devices that can’t handle over about 600 V. New research is focused on producing a vertical GaN structure that’s better for medium- and high-power applications. These are devices where the current, instead of flowing through the surface of the semiconductor, flows through the wafer, across the semiconductor.  

The first delivered Volvo FL Electric are a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden.