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Alberta publishes report assessing non-combustion uses for bitumen, opens $2M call for projects

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Alberta Innovates, in partnership with industry, government and other organizations, recently released the results of a study that investigates the best opportunities for “Bitumen Beyond Combustion” (BBC). Validating technical, logistical, environmental, and market solutions to accelerate the commercialization of BBC products.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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asked David Marcus, the head of the project at Facebook, whether the company would wait for Congress to consider appropriate regulation. To see how this works, let’s start with Filecoin , which raised $257 million in 2017 in its ICO. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Filecoin promised to issue a maximum of 200 million FIL tokens.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020.

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