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Mobile Experts Tackles Exploding Bandwidth Requirements For Remote Radio Heads In New Market Study
2014-08-05 08:20:09| rfglobalnet News Articles
Mobile Experts released a report today on Semiconductors for Remote Radio Heads, including a new long-term outlook for macro base stations. The analysis is rendered in 30 clear charts and diagrams, and explained in 61 pages of analysis.
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Just natural gas well exploding into flames nothing to see here!
2014-02-14 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Early on Tuesday morning, a Chevron-owned natural gas well in Greene County, Pa., burst into flames and more than 72 hours later, its still burning. One contractor for Chevron is missing and presumed dead, and another was injured in the explosion. Chevron has flown in experts from Houstons Wild Well Control to put out the fire, and crews spent yesterday removing overheated pieces of metal that kept reigniting. Today, they await heavy-duty water tanks to extinguish the blaze, which could be...
First nonflammable lithium-ion battery will stop your smartphone, car, and plane from exploding
2014-02-13 18:31:17| Extremetech
Lithium-ion batteries, despite being one of the most important pieces of modern technology, have always had a particularly grievous flaw: They're highly flammable. If you puncture a lithium-ion battery, or you charge/discharge them improperly, you'll usually have a pretty bad fire on your hands -- or worse, if the conditions are just right, an explosion. Most notably, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was grounded in 2013 due to its lithium-ion battery packs causing electrical fires mid-flight -- but there have also been a fair number of stories about exploding smartphone batteries recently, too. Now, long overdue, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say they've built a nonflammable lithium-ion battery.
U.S. and Canadian safety officials are freaked out about exploding trains
2014-01-24 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: This is what federal transportation safety officials from both the U.S. and Canada sounded like on Thursday: "Aaahhhh holy crap trains are exploding all over the place!" The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada issued simultaneous pleas to regulators on Thursday, calling for urgent reforms amid the spiraling spate of fiery accidents involving oil-hauling trains. Such trains have been exploding in flames and spilling their loads following derailments...
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Trains Carrying Oil Keep Exploding, but Will the Energy Lobby Allow More Regulation?
2014-01-06 17:20:34| Railroads - Topix.net
Freight trains are the little engine that could of the transportation industry, really janky-looking and slow but refusing to die.
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energy
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