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Amyris processes Ceres sweet sorghum into renewable diesel using soluble and cellulosic sugars

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The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres’ sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. The joint evaluation project was funded in part by a US Department of Energy Integrated Biorefinery grant awarded to Amyris.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. Alabama A&M University. City of Fairfield.

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Remy International, Inc. Supplying HVH Electric Motors to Daimler for 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Two-Mode Hybrid

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The HVH technology provides improved motor performance and cooling effectiveness, enabling increased range in all-electric drive mode and the potential for a smaller internal combustion engine. The Mercedes ML450 Hybrid will be produced at the Mercedes manufacturing plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. million grant as part of the $2.4

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

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Artificial intelligence could perform more quickly, accurately, reliably, and impartially than humans on a wide range of problems, from detecting cancer to deciding who receives an interview for a job. They will say the school bus is a snowplow with very high confidence," says computer scientist Anh Nguyen at Auburn University, in Alabama.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1 Minneapolis-St.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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Being stationary with respect to Earth means that GEO satellites are always within range of a downlink station, so they can send data back to Earth in minutes. As it travels, Earth rotates under it, so on its next pass, it will be above a different part of Earth. Both offer free access to a wide range of open data.