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PSDcast – Pre-cast EV Infrastructure

02/25/2026

"Precon Products, known for its patented EVEZ precast concrete charger bases, recently delivered 50 units for a new charging hub in Southern California. As the LA 2028 Olympics prepares to deploy a 500-piece electric bus fleet, Dan Zarraonandia, Vice President of Precon Products, joins us

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PSDcast – A Battery Energy Storage System in Australia

02/20/2026

­Technology group Wärtsilä recently announced they’d be delivering a 100 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) for Australian renewable energy retailer, Flow Power. And on the line to discuss this and the future of renewable energy in Australia (and possibly the world) is Suraj

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PSDcast – Agentic AI and the Smart Factory

02/04/2026

­And in order for smart factories to truly evolve, they may need to embrace the insights and preemptive capabilities provided by artificial intelligence. In this way, they can move from the "experimental pilots" of 2025 into a landscape of integrated, agentic autonomy. And on the

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PSDcast – AI for Space Applications

01/21/2026

­AI has the potential to change our world, enhancing all manner of applications. And if we can maintain control over an intelligence that, by design, is stronger, faster, and smarter than humans, we stand to benefit from the greatest technological revolution since the assembly line. Of course,

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PSDcast – The Democratization of Solar

12/16/2025

­The U.S. solar industry is growing exponentially, driven in part by government policy and mature photovoltaic technology. And while the industry added 7.5 gigawatts direct current of capacity in Q2 2025, the U.S. could learn a lot from the European example (and Asia for that matter). And on the

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PSDcast – Lowering the Cost of EVs with Dry Electrode Manufacturing

12/16/2025

­We’re now at the stage of electric vehicle dissemination where costs between EVs and gas-powered vehicles are starting to intersect. According to market research firm Gartner, battery electric vehicles will be, on average, cheaper to produce than a comparable internal combustion engine by 2027.

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PSDcast – AI Testing and the U.S. Army

11/12/2025

SandBoxAQ just released the AQCat25-EV2, a quantitative AI model trained on a dataset with 13.5 million high-fidelity quantum chemistry calculations across 47,000 intermediate-catalyst systems. And just recently, SandBoxAQ worked with the U.S., using the former’s

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PSDcast – Helping Hollywood Fulfill its Green Ambitions

09/18/2025

­Hollywood, for all its environmental advocacy, doesn’t always make the best choices for the environment OR rely on the greenest power sources. Most production companies rely on gas and diesel generators, which not only emit CO₂ emissions but a huge amount of noise. ReVolt Holdings

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PSDcast – Resilience Drives a Renewed Focus on Energy Storage

08/20/2025

­As renewable energy like wind and solar has become more prominent, energy storage has become ever more critical. But recent incidents like the large-scale blackout in Spain and the recent one in L.A. have shifted the way companies view battery storage – for renewable energy and for business

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PSDcast – A Wireless Sensor for the IoT

08/18/2025

­One of the most critical questions surrounding the Internet of Things is the myriad power requirements for all the devices that comprise this interconnected network of, for lack of a better words, everything. And along those lines, Energous Wireless Power Solutions recently launched

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