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President Biden Says "Buy American," Alphabet's Balloons Burst and GM Partners for Clean Trucking Without Batteries This Week in Engineering
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On today's episode, Biden signed an executive order that the administration declares is a substantial update of “buy American" legislation.
Loon was a Google X R&D project begun in 2011 to use a network of balloons operating in the stratosphere at altitudes as high as 16 miles to create a wireless network with up to 1 Mb per second download speeds. The project was promising enough to be spun off as a separate company in 2018. Now it’s all over, as Alphabet announced that the project and the company will be wound up.
General Motors has announced a collaboration with heavy truck maker Navistar International Corporation to create a zero emission long-haul freight transportation system
Interested in watching more episodes of This Week in Engineering? Check them out along with many other series only on Engineering TV.
On today's episode, Biden signed an executive order that the administration declares is a substantial update of “buy American" legislation.
Loon was a Google X R&D project begun in 2011 to use a network of balloons operating in the stratosphere at altitudes as high as 16 miles to create a wireless network with up to 1 Mb per second download speeds. The project was promising enough to be spun off as a separate company in 2018. Now it’s all over, as Alphabet announced that the project and the company will be wound up.
General Motors has announced a collaboration with heavy truck maker Navistar International Corporation to create a zero emission long-haul freight transportation system
Interested in watching more episodes of This Week in Engineering? Check them out along with many other series only on Engineering TV.
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