Engineering 8/9

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Mar 17, 20211 min read

Vancouver House

Around Canada-Vancouver House, Granville Street, Canada by u/fesbanu r/cityport i.redd.it

Artificial Hearts. Will The Next Generation Lead to Widespread Adoption?

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Mar 14, 20212 min read

Artificial Hearts. Will The Next Generation Lead to Widespread Adoption?

Total Artificial Heart is a rarely adopted option for those facing end-stage heart failure. Might new devices be more widely adopted?

Austin-Based Semiconductor Manufacturing Hit Hard by ERCOT Failure.

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Mar 8, 20212 min read

Austin-Based Semiconductor Manufacturing Hit Hard by ERCOT Failure.

ERCOT's need to cut power at Samsung and NXP during the Polar Vortex is costly and casts doubt on the area's competency for manufacturing.

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Mar 5, 20212 min read

How To Persuade The Unpersuadable

Carefully nuturing your strong belief in a project/product/service can persuade the know-it-all naysaying boss to get behind a winning idea.

Trackless Trams Better Option than Light Rail?

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Feb 28, 20211 min read

Trackless Trams Better Option than Light Rail?

Smooth-riding autonomous buses called trackless trams may be a less expensive alternative to light rail.

Demand for Light Duty Trucks At An All Time High Been Trending For Decades

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Feb 12, 20212 min read

Demand for Light Duty Trucks At An All Time High Been Trending For Decades

Decades in decline sedans are now less than 10% of car sales. Pickups, MiniVans and SUV are highly preferred in America. EV versions soon!

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Feb 4, 20211 min read

Buy American-Talk Versus Practice

Pushing Federal Procurement to favor "Made in the USA" is appealing but ignores supply chain realities and international trade agreements.

Businessweek Interviewed Pfizer CEO Regarding Covid

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Feb 3, 20213 min read

Businessweek Interviewed Pfizer CEO Regarding Covid

U.S. underperformed responding to COVID but efforts of private industry & cross-collaboration with agencies and academia saved us from worse

Neighborhood/Building Power Issues-MicroGrid Networks to the Rescue

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Feb 1, 20211 min read

Neighborhood/Building Power Issues-MicroGrid Networks to the Rescue

Batteries to stabilize electric delivery will become common in buildings and neighborhoods. A small cube unit is made by Fluenceenergy.com

Austin Skyline 43 Towers Rising or Planned

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Jan 31, 20211 min read

Austin Skyline 43 Towers Rising or Planned

Pandemic aside corporate RELOs are hitting records & high rise builders are aligned with 17 on the way & 26 in-the-works or in planning.

Mega-Batteries Siphon Excess Grid Power & Redistribute at Peak Demand-Mighty Moss Gets a New Life !

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Jan 30, 20211 min read

Mega-Batteries Siphon Excess Grid Power & Redistribute at Peak Demand-Mighty Moss Gets a New Life !

Everything that is old is new might be the 2021 anthem for the Mighty Moss electric generating plant. New life from surging battery tech !

Carbon Dioxide Capture to Make Oil Extraction and Use Carbon Neutral

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Jan 23, 20212 min read

Carbon Dioxide Capture to Make Oil Extraction and Use Carbon Neutral

Sucking CO2 from air may save the planet. OXY envisions a future that removes CO2 using it to extract oil & making its use carbon neutral.

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Jan 22, 20213 min read

Progress in Human Molecular Genetics

Molecular Genetics is yielding new therapies but gene banks are mostly from european ancestry thereby limiting understanding of all diseases

Apple Enters Fiercely Competitive EV Market

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Jan 17, 20211 min read

Apple Enters Fiercely Competitive EV Market

Electric Vehicle makers include Tesla, traditional automakers, Rivian&Others and new entrants Alibaba, Baidu, Foxconn and now Apple.

Infrastructure "Everybody Wants Some" But "It Don't Come Easy"

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Jan 14, 20213 min read

Infrastructure "Everybody Wants Some" But "It Don't Come Easy"

To most of us lay folks infrastructure projects make lots of sense especially now when growth is needed but completing them is difficult.

Automakers Not Chipping Away-Demand for PCs, 5G & Gaming in Pandemic has left Auto-Chips Lagging

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Jan 9, 20211 min read

Automakers Not Chipping Away-Demand for PCs, 5G & Gaming in Pandemic has left Auto-Chips Lagging

Carmarkers somewhat stalled by lower auto-chip production as industry tries to adjust to changing demand brought on by the pandemic fallout.

30 Years On-The Human Genome Project Impact, What the Future Portends

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Jan 3, 20214 min read

30 Years On-The Human Genome Project Impact, What the Future Portends

Timely publication of the COVID sequence, DX tests, MOAB RX & vaccines that followed stem from transformed rules of research out of the HGP.

Solid State EV Batteries Game-Changing Technology will Prototype in 2021

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Dec 15, 20202 min read

Solid State EV Batteries Game-Changing Technology will Prototype in 2021

Exciting times as Toyota announces plans to demonstrate a prototype EV using a solid-state battery doubling range & cutting charge time 66%

Google's DeepMind AlphaFold Predicts Protein Folding Reliably & Quickly From AA Sequence Using AI

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Dec 2, 20201 min read

Google's DeepMind AlphaFold Predicts Protein Folding Reliably & Quickly From AA Sequence Using AI

To reliably & quickly predict protein folding based on the known amino acid sequence is a goal that is being realized by Google using AI

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Nov 18, 20201 min read

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