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continue to see a high level of interest in this topic and it is a favorite of
mine. I'm including in this posting two very recent forward-looking
presentations that you will find most interesting. Do pass along any favorite
videos of yours related to the HVAC industry.
Tecumseh
Technology Center Grand Opening
 Tecumseh
Products Company celebrated the Grand Opening of its Global
Technology Center
May 1 by showcasing the research, testing and development capabilities of its
newly-constructed 35,000 sq. ft. facility in Ann Arbor, MI.
The multi-million-dollar facility contains a variety of the latest computer
simulation, testing and analysis tools, including a 60-cubic-meter
hemi-anechoic chamber, two large-scale environmental chambers each with
hydrocarbon refrigerant testing capability, as well as full-scale reliability
and calorimeter testing.
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Regina
Dugan: TED,com Talk - Incredible Scientific and Engineering Advances (3/12)
 "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not
fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the
extraordinary projects -- a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by
thought, and, well, the internet.
Regina Dugan directs the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), the DoD innovation engine responsible for creating and preventing
strategic surprise.
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Life in 2050
 In 2050, the number of people living in cities will be greater
than the entire population of the Earth today. That's why researchers,
inventors, and engineers need to be more creative today than ever before.
Computers as medical assistants, robots as household servants, sensory organs
for electric cars, buildings as energy providers, farms in skyscrapers, power
plants in the desert and on the high seas, supercomputers the size of a pea -
these are not visions but almost tangible realities in laboratories all over
the globe.
Editor's Note: CR4 would like to thank Larry Butz, President and CEO
of GEA Consulting, for contributing this blog entry, which originally
appeared here.
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