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USA Rare Earth acquires US rare earth permanent magnet manufacturing capability from Hitachi; mine-to-magnet

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USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. To find out who was chosen as IEEE-USA president-elect, IEEE Technical Activities vice president-elect, IEEE Standards Association president-elect, and more, read the full annual election results.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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RPS policies as of March 2011. Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035.

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Video Friday: ChatGPT for Robotics

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Sanctuary ] The qualification video for RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France of the Middle Size League team, Tech United Eindhoven. Tech United ] New year, new look for our test fleet! Mujin started in 2011 in Tokyo, with founding members from USA, Japan, and China. DJI ] Never get tired of watching this. [

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ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel to host first plenary 20-21 June in Detroit

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US Department of Energy Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. CSA America Duke Energy Eaton Edison Electric Institute Electric Power Research Institute General Electric Green Dot (Transportation) Inc. Southern California Edison Southern Company TDI Power Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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IEEE-USA president as well as chair of the IEEE New Initiatives Committee , the IEEE Public Visibility Committee , and IEEE Region 6. Virginia Tech. He is also the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide , which is now in its second edition. He has held several leadership positions in IEEE including 2019.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Following Spain’s SIVE experience, in 2011. Sipa USA via AP. The tech is there to rescue Europe from the migrants, not the migrants from the sea. What the tech is up against. Tech postpones or relocates border confrontations. Member States,” says geographer.

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