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		<title>Lexus Thinks Compact LF-Ch Hatchback Hybrid Would Sell in U.S.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Lexus booth at the 2009 LA Auto Show was rather devoid of inspiring next-gen green automotive technology, I did make a quick stop by to look at their traveling LF-Ch exhibit. The company has put together a display that’s supposed to help figure out what styling cues show attendees like best about the concept hybrid hatchback by giving them the ability to take pictures of the car and upload them to a database. It actually was one of the worst-executed interactive displays I’ve seen in a long time. Needless to say, I decided to pass up the interactivity.]]></description>
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		<title>In Copenhagen, 14 of World’s Biggest Cities Commit to EVs</title>
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		<title>Housing+ for on-site renewable energy generation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Designed by C. F. Møller Architects in cooperation with Moe &#038; Brødsgaard, Cenergia, Phillips, Schüco, Erik Juul and Vogt landscape, the Housing+ is a passive housing that supports on-site renewable energy generation. Located around Aalborg waterfront in Denmark, the pilot-project features a long sloping elevation, which provides a plane for a 1200 m2 solar array to produce the 104.400 kwh of electricity (annually) to power 60 housing units without external resources. The sustainable housing uses the fjord to power heat pumps, while a highly insulated water-tank (W 3 x H 12 m) is integrated to store the solar energy. Apart from solar array and heat pump, the housing project also integrates 4 vertical low-noise wind turbines that generate energy to recharge electric cars. Moreover, the slope shelters a public gazebo and cafe for community gatherings.]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Reality Offers Solution to Driving Phobias</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.]]></description>
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		<title>Switchgrass Produces Biomass Efficiently</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the production of perennial grasses, such as switchgrass, from which biomass could be harvested for use as a biofuel feedstock. Economically viable production of a perennial grass monoculture from which substantial quantities of biomass are removed annually is expected to require nitrogen fertilizer.]]></description>
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		<title>Generating Electricity from Air Flow</title>
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		<title>Scientists Developing Swarms of Miniature Drifting Robots to Patrol the Ocean</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation has just awarded researchers at UC San Diego a $1million grant to develop small robotic devices that will drift with the ocean currents to study the mechanisms that support plankton and other tiny marine creatures.  Swarms of the autonomous underwater explorers (AUE’s) could provide a window into the underlying factors that drive broader ocean processes, by more precisely focusing on localized data on currents, temperature, salinity, pressure, and other properties.
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider: Beams Are Back on at World&#8217;s Most Powerful Particle Accelerator</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC's 17-mile ring.]]></description>
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		<title>Top ARPA-E Funding Goes to Renewable Storage in Liquid “Battery”</title>
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		<title>HAL&#8217;s bells: IBM makes &#8216;thinking computer&#8217; breakthrough</title>
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Start uga_filter: <p><strong>A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. They will present their concept at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society&#8217;s (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics will take place from November 22-24 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.</strong></p>
<p>About a half-inch by one inch in size, these devices might be mounted on the roof or tail of a car or on an airplane fuselage where they would vibrate inside a flow, producing an output voltage. The power generated would not be enough to replace that supplied by the combustion engines, but it could run some system &#8212; such as batteries that would be used to charge control panels and other small electronic devices such as mobile phones.</p>
<p>Led by CCNY professor Yiannis Andreopoulos, the researchers are currently attempting to optimize these devices by modeling the physical forces to which they are subjected in different air flows &#8212; on the roof of a car, for instance, or on the back of a truck.</p>
<p>When the device is placed in the wake of a cylinder &#8212; such as on the back of a truck &#8212; the flow of air will cause the devices to vibrate in resonance, says Andreopoulos. On the roof of car, they will shake in a much more unsteady flow known as a turbulent boundary layer. In Minneapolis, Andreopoulos and his colleagues will present wind tunnel data showing how the devices work in both situations.</p>
<p>&#8220;These devices open the possibility to continuously scavenge otherwise wasted energy from the environment,&#8221; says Andreopoulos.</p>
<p>The presentation, &#8220;Harvesting energy in the wake of a circular cylinder using piezoelectric materials&#8221; by Dogus H. Akaydin, Niell Elvin, and Yiannis Andreopoulos of the City College of New York is on November 22, 2009.</p>

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<p>About a half-inch by one inch in size, these devices might be mounted on the roof or tail of a car or on an airplane fuselage where they would vibrate inside a flow, producing an output voltage. The power generated would not be enough to replace that supplied by the combustion engines, but it could run some system &#8212; such as batteries that would be used to charge control panels and other small electronic devices such as mobile phones.</p>
<p>Led by CCNY professor Yiannis Andreopoulos, the researchers are currently attempting to optimize these devices by modeling the physical forces to which they are subjected in different air flows &#8212; on the roof of a car, for instance, or on the back of a truck.</p>
<p>When the device is placed in the wake of a cylinder &#8212; such as on the back of a truck &#8212; the flow of air will cause the devices to vibrate in resonance, says Andreopoulos. On the roof of car, they will shake in a much more unsteady flow known as a turbulent boundary layer. In Minneapolis, Andreopoulos and his colleagues will present wind tunnel data showing how the devices work in both situations.</p>
<p>&#8220;These devices open the possibility to continuously scavenge otherwise wasted energy from the environment,&#8221; says Andreopoulos.</p>
<p>The presentation, &#8220;Harvesting energy in the wake of a circular cylinder using piezoelectric materials&#8221; by Dogus H. Akaydin, Niell Elvin, and Yiannis Andreopoulos of the City College of New York is on November 22, 2009.</p>

Start uga_filter: <p><strong>Scientists say they&#8217;ve made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that    &#8220;think&#8221; like a living thing&#8217;s brain &#8211; an effort that tests the limits of    technology.</strong></p>
<p>Even the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers can&#8217;t replicate basic aspects of    the human mind. The machines can&#8217;t imagine a wall painted a different    colour, for instance, or picture a person&#8217;s face and connect that to an    emotion.</p>
<p>If researchers can make computers operate more like a brain thinks &#8211; by    reasoning and dealing with abstractions, among other things &#8211; they could    unleash tremendous insights in such diverse fields as medicine and economics.</p>
<p>A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near.</p>
<p>But this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they&#8217;ve simulated a    cat&#8217;s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive    supercomputer.</p>
<p>The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two    processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory &#8211; 100,000 times as much as your    computer has.</p>
<p>The scientists had previously simulated 40 per cent of a mouse&#8217;s brain in    2006, a rat&#8217;s full brain in 2007, and 1 per cent of a human&#8217;s cerebral    cortex this year, using progressively bigger supercomputers.</p>
<p>The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland,    Oregon, doesn&#8217;t mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the    progenitor of a race of robo-cats.</p>
<p>The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat&#8217;s brain, is    more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly    one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat&#8217;s brain work together.</p>
<p>The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to behave how a brain is believed to    behave.</p>
<p>The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including IBM&#8217;s, and    scientists watched as different parts of the simulated brain worked together    to figure out what the image was.</p>
<p>Dharmendra Modha, manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior    author of the paper, called it a &#8220;truly unprecedented scale of simulation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory    were also part of the project.</p>
<p>Modha says the research could lead to computers that rely less on &#8220;structured&#8221;    data, such the input 2 plus 2 equals 4, and can handle ambiguity better,    like identifying the corporate logo even if the image is blurry.</p>
<p>Or such computers could incorporate senses like sight, touch and hearing into    the decisions they make.</p>
<p>One reason that development would be significant to IBM: The company is    selling &#8220;smarter planet&#8221; services that use digital sensors to monitor things    like weather and traffic and feed that data into computers that are asked to    do something with the information, like predicting a tsunami or detecting    freeway accidents.</p>
<p>Other companies could use &#8220;cognitive computing&#8221; to make better sense of large    volumes of information.</p>
<p>Jim Olds, a neuroscientist and director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced    Study at George Mason University, called the new research a &#8220;tremendous    step.&#8221;</p>
<p>Olds, who was not involved in IBM&#8217;s work, said neuroscientists have been    amassing data about how the brain works much like &#8220;stamp collectors,&#8221;    without a way to tie it together.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made tremendous advances in collecting data, but we don&#8217;t have a    collective theory yet for how this complex organ called the brain produces    things like Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets and Mozart&#8217;s symphonies,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The holy grail for neuroscientists is to map activity from single nerve    cells, which they know about, into how billions of nerve cells act in    concert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Modha says a simulation of a human cortex could come within the next decade if    Moore&#8217;s Law holds. That&#8217;s the rule of thumb that the number of transistors    on a computer chip tends to double every two years.</p>
<p>Yet Olds cautioned that simulating the human brain is &#8220;such a complex problem    that we may not be able to get to an answer, even with supercomputing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There are no guarantees in this game because the sheer complexity of the    problem really dwarfs anything we&#8217;ve tried to do,&#8221; he said.</p>

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<p>Even the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers can&#8217;t replicate basic aspects of    the human mind. The machines can&#8217;t imagine a wall painted a different    colour, for instance, or picture a person&#8217;s face and connect that to an    emotion.</p>
<p>If researchers can make computers operate more like a brain thinks &#8211; by    reasoning and dealing with abstractions, among other things &#8211; they could    unleash tremendous insights in such diverse fields as medicine and economics.</p>
<p>A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near.</p>
<p>But this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they&#8217;ve simulated a    cat&#8217;s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive    supercomputer.</p>
<p>The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two    processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory &#8211; 100,000 times as much as your    computer has.</p>
<p>The scientists had previously simulated 40 per cent of a mouse&#8217;s brain in    2006, a rat&#8217;s full brain in 2007, and 1 per cent of a human&#8217;s cerebral    cortex this year, using progressively bigger supercomputers.</p>
<p>The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland,    Oregon, doesn&#8217;t mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the    progenitor of a race of robo-cats.</p>
<p>The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat&#8217;s brain, is    more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly    one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat&#8217;s brain work together.</p>
<p>The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to behave how a brain is believed to    behave.</p>
<p>The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including IBM&#8217;s, and    scientists watched as different parts of the simulated brain worked together    to figure out what the image was.</p>
<p>Dharmendra Modha, manager of cognitive computing for IBM Research and senior    author of the paper, called it a &#8220;truly unprecedented scale of simulation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory    were also part of the project.</p>
<p>Modha says the research could lead to computers that rely less on &#8220;structured&#8221;    data, such the input 2 plus 2 equals 4, and can handle ambiguity better,    like identifying the corporate logo even if the image is blurry.</p>
<p>Or such computers could incorporate senses like sight, touch and hearing into    the decisions they make.</p>
<p>One reason that development would be significant to IBM: The company is    selling &#8220;smarter planet&#8221; services that use digital sensors to monitor things    like weather and traffic and feed that data into computers that are asked to    do something with the information, like predicting a tsunami or detecting    freeway accidents.</p>
<p>Other companies could use &#8220;cognitive computing&#8221; to make better sense of large    volumes of information.</p>
<p>Jim Olds, a neuroscientist and director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced    Study at George Mason University, called the new research a &#8220;tremendous    step.&#8221;</p>
<p>Olds, who was not involved in IBM&#8217;s work, said neuroscientists have been    amassing data about how the brain works much like &#8220;stamp collectors,&#8221;    without a way to tie it together.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made tremendous advances in collecting data, but we don&#8217;t have a    collective theory yet for how this complex organ called the brain produces    things like Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets and Mozart&#8217;s symphonies,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The holy grail for neuroscientists is to map activity from single nerve    cells, which they know about, into how billions of nerve cells act in    concert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Modha says a simulation of a human cortex could come within the next decade if    Moore&#8217;s Law holds. That&#8217;s the rule of thumb that the number of transistors    on a computer chip tends to double every two years.</p>
<p>Yet Olds cautioned that simulating the human brain is &#8220;such a complex problem    that we may not be able to get to an answer, even with supercomputing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There are no guarantees in this game because the sheer complexity of the    problem really dwarfs anything we&#8217;ve tried to do,&#8221; he said.</p>

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