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Bridgestone awarded $35M USDA Climate-Smart Grant to advance guayule natural rubber production

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Joining Bridgestone, additional partners in the $35-million guayule climate-smart grant include the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, OpenET, Environmental Defense Fund, Tohono O’odham Nation and Colorado River Indian Tribes, and eight regional growers.

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DOE awarding up to $3.5M to additional algal biomass yield project

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In Fiscal Year 2017, DOE has selected one more project: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s “Rewiring Algal Carbon Energetics for Renewables (RACER)”. This amount will be produced through multiple batch campaigns or on a semi-continuous or continuous basis, in an outdoor test environment, by 2020. Earlier post.)

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. She left in 2017 and joined Success Academy as dean of mathematics.

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Ford targeting highly autonomous vehicle for ride-sharing in 2021; new tech company investments, staffing up in Silicon Valley

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This year, Ford will triple its autonomous vehicle test fleet to be the largest test fleet of any automaker—bringing the number to about 30 self-driving Fusion Hybrid sedans on the roads in California, Arizona and Michigan, with plans to triple it again next year. The expanded Palo Alto campus opens in mid-2017.

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2022 Lucid Air: The makers of the first 500-mile EV should be taken seriously

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Inside, the buyer has a choice of interior themes (“looks,” really), each intended to evoke a different sort of luxurious environment. A deep lustrous maroon metallic, also with silver pillars, is Lucid’s other distinctive color—and it’s stunning. Over the break, engineers doubled the battery voltage from the standard 400 volts.

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