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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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At CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre (0.71 Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure. km 2 ) site at the base of Mt.

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Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

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A couple decades ago Kiva Systems had the brilliant and certainly very valuable realization that it was possible to make an entire environment (like a fulfillment warehouse) robotic without filling that entire environment with robots.

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Rolls-Royce Power Systems road map for climate-neutrality; 35% cut by 2030 from 2019; key role of mtu engines

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The certification means that the new generation of Series 2000 and 4000 engines, that currently account for 85% of our sales revenues, will be qualified to run on second-generation bio-fuels and on E-fuels. —Dr Otto Preiss, Chief Technology Officer and COO of Rolls-Royce Power Systems.

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Study finds lead from leaded gasoline persists in London air despite ‘90s ban

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The researchers say this highlights the long-term persistence of contaminants introduced by human activities in the environment. In the 1980s, annual average airborne lead concentrations in central London dropped from 500-600 ng/m 3 of air to around 300 ng/m 3 , before dropping further to around 20 ng/m 3 in 2000. Tremper, Dominik J.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Building hometowns where insects can thrive.

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GM investing $1B in Warren Technical Center

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Construction of a multi-story IT building adjacent to the current Michigan IT Innovation Center and a new parking deck for Innovation Center employees. Fourteen years earlier, in 2000, the campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Construction to accommodate additional testing areas at the Advanced Energy Center.

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Ford targeting 30% reduction in water used per vehicle by 2015

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m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5 —Sue Cischke, group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering. Ford’s latest water reduction initiatives are designed to build on the success the company has had with its Global Water Management Initiative that launched in 2000.

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