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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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GM and SAE International select 8 NA universities for new autonomous vehicle competition; Bolt EV the platform

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At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. North Carolina A&T University. Michigan Tech.

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

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Living Blended Drought Atlas grid points are shown; 122 with Palmer Drought Severity Index data, 1–2017 CE (red filled circles), and three with missing data for 1–209 CE (black filled circles). —Connie Woodhouse, a professor at the University of Arizona and a study co-author. Gangopadhyay et al. It’s quite remarkable.

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E.ON to provide 10MW battery storage unit to Tucson Electric

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The Iron Horse Battery Energy Storage Project will be located adjacent to the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park southeast of Tucson. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017. MW solar facility at the Fort Huachuca Army Base near Sierra Vista, Arizona. MW Tech Park Solar and 13.2

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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)”. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected one additional project, for up to $3.5 Earlier post.)

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

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Selections were made under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) annual funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in 2017. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut. Northwestern University. Northeastern University. University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Cooper Tire begins testing tires made with guayule component; consortium progress on genomics, agronomics

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This development was reported by Cooper to its consortium partners— PanAridus , Arizona State University, Cornell University, and the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS)—as the group met recently in Maricopa, Arizona for its third annual meeting and progress report on their $6.9-million

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