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QOTD: Will the Union's Volkswagen Victory Pave Way for More?

The Truth About Cars

According to Reuters , next up for the UAW is a mid-May vote to unionize at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama. A CNN article published last fall after the UAW strike suggests that the union has targeted plants run 10 foreign and three American auto makers. But the UAW won't stop there. What say you?

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NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

Green Car Congress

The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Virgin Orbit air launches rockets carrying small satellites to space.

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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

Charged EVs

Westwater holds mineral rights to the Coosa graphite deposit, which is located across 42,000 acres in Alabama. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama. Fast forward to today and Westwater is building a graphite plant in Alabama, and people are eager to buy our capacity.

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Yield Projections for Switchgrass as a Biofuel Crop Across the US

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Some field sites in Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma reported biomass yields greater than 28 metric tons per hectare using the lowland cultivars Kanlow and Alamo. A promising future direction is to apply the modeling approaches taken here to additional bioenergy crops at a global scale in combination with various land use scenarios.

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Researchers characterize algae parasite that impacts on algae biofuel

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Understanding these parasites’ life histories and phylogenetic relationships will help in the development of future strategies to control attacks in outdoor algal cultivation facilities. The article provides a comprehensive study of the parasite challenge facing crop protection for scaled algae cultivation in open-pond systems.

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

Cars That Think

They will say the school bus is a snowplow with very high confidence," says computer scientist Anh Nguyen at Auburn University, in Alabama. They recently drafted a playbook that outlines a few basic steps that governments, businesses, and other groups can implement to detect and prevent bias in existing and future software they use.

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How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America?

EV Adoption

For example, labor costs in states like California or Hawaii, may be much higher than in Alabama or Oklahoma. In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Cathy Zoi, CEO of the charging network EVgo, was quoted that it cost the company an estimated $110,000 to deploy a DC fast charger. Where in the US they are deployed.

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