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Automotive Technology
VW accelerates shift to electric cars and will have to do so again
VW has announced that it is accelerating its shift to electric vehicles. While it is one of the most aggressive plans to date, we expect that they will have to “accelerate” it again. more… The post VW accelerates shift to electric cars and will have to do so again...
EGEB: US energy storage market shattered records in Q4 2020
The US installed more battery storage in 2020 than between 2013 and 2019, says a new study. Representative Deb Haaland’s nomination for US Secretary of the Interior heads to the full Senate. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar...
Tesla takes part in deal to take over controversial nickel mine in New Caledonia
Tesla is listed as a “technical partner” in a deal to take over a very large and controversial nickel mine in New Caledonia. more… The post Tesla takes part in deal to take over controversial nickel mine in New Caledonia appeared first on Electrek.
Healthcare Technology
Weekender 3/5/21
Weekly News Recap Several health systems and home-based care companies ...
Correlative Adventures with COVID
By ANISH KOKA “The patient in room 1 should be a quick one, its an addon, they just need a prescription for ivermectin” I’m a bit puzzled by this sentence from my assistant doing his best to help me through a very busy day in the clinic that I’m already behind in. I...
Morning Headlines 3/5/21
Leading Health Innovators Launch Alliance To Advance Care In The ...
Consumer Products
4 futures for urban mobility post-lockdown
This is a follow-up of our previous blog on how urban mobility behavior has changed during lockdown. In this blog, we look at four possible scenarios of the future for urban mobility post-lockdown. Built around actual behavior, our scenarios combine MOTIONTAG’s...
How to keep shoppers in FMCG loyalty card programs in Europe
Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore loyalty cards, but just how widespread is their use across Europe, and what innovations are shaking up the existing schemes? In our whitepaper Keeping Shoppers Loyal – An inventory of FMCG loyalty card programs in Europe, we...
Urban mobility after lockdown: Travel behavior post-coronavirus
In this series of blogs, we have teamed up with MOTIONTAG and leading industry experts to help cities understand the new realities and opportunities in urban mobility after lockdown. This first blog looks at what is currently happening and in our second blog, we’ll...
Academic Technoloy
Tracing the Evolution of Telephones – A Search Challenge for Students
Every year on March 7th the National Archives Daily Document features Alexander Graham Bell's drawing for his telephone patent. Take a look at that drawing and you might start wondering, like I did a few years ago, about how many changes and improvements to that...
Seven Free Tools That Help Students Format Bibliographies
Back when I was in high school we had to learn how to create bibliographies by working from a template that my history teacher, Mr. Diggs, provided to us. When I went to college, I referred to that template and an early version of The Student Writer to make...
27 Videos That Can Help Students Improve Their Writing
The Writer's Workshop is a playlist of twenty-seven TED-Ed video lessons about writing. The The Writer's Workshop contains lessons on basic topics like how to use punctuation and point of view. It also offers videos about more difficult topics like how to make your...
Alternative Energy
Renewable developers are bearing the brunt of siloed transmission planning
Renewable project developers are bearing the burden of decades of transmission planning focused on transmission owner needs. Renewable projects are dropping out of generator interconnection queues because of the high cost of transmission upgrade costs. PJM, MISO, SPP...
Cleaning up renewable energy
A University of South Australia researcher is helping establish a lifetime stewardship scheme to manage renewable energy waste from solar panels. by Sezen Bakan, The Lead, Australia Australia has the highest proportion of household photovoltaic (PV) systems in the...
FedEx says it will be carbon-neutral by 2040
Company is going all-electric and funding a new Yale center for applied research focused on carbon-negative technologies. FedEx Corp. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. The company laid out three key areas it will...
Nuclear Energy
China on course to lead in nuclear by 2030, says IEA
China will have the world's largest nuclear power fleet within a decade, an International Energy Agency official noted during a session at the High-Level Workshop on Nuclear Power in Clean Energy Transitions, World Nuclear News reported on March 3.The workshop was...
Energy Secretary calls for changes to Texas grid
GranholmEnergy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday during the CERAWeek energy conference commented that Texas should look beyond its borders to join other grids following last month's winter storm that left millions without power, according to an article from The...
Hanford Site to restore wildland after grass fire
A worker readies a hanging bucket for a helicopter used to drop native grass and shrub seed on thousands of acres of the Hanford Site that burned in 2020. Source: DOEAn aerial seeding project on the Hanford Site’s Gable Mountain will help restore lost habitat...
Cloud Storage Technology
Cloud-based SaaS application development, How does a SaaS model work?
How Does a SaaS Model Work? If you are planning to integrate SaaS solution with your business, it is pertinent to improve your knowledge about SaaS. Software as a Service or SaaS, as we commonly call it, is a delivery model wherein a centrally-hosted software...
5 Ways to Boost Employee Satisfaction with Technology
If we have learned anything in 2020, it’s that investing in our employees is the only way to stay afloat. This has always been true, of course, because even without a global crisis on our hands, there is no denying that our employees are the main driving force behind...
Track Your Certifications, Point to Your Success
Whether you’re an individual user of our platform or part of a large enterprise team, we’ve learned that a majority of people using Cloud Academy are quite an ambitious bunch. Many of you are constantly working towards certifications, and often multiple certifications...