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New England to become the second coal-free region in the US

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Photo: PSNH/Flickr Both of New Hampshire’s coal plants are shutting, making New England the second coal-free region in the US. That’s following a settlement between Sierra Club, The Conservation Law Foundation, EPA, and Granite Shore Power. That will make New Hampshire the 16th coal-free state. Get started here. –ad*

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DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

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million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. Texas Mineral Resources Corp (Sierra Blanca, TX). Each project will receive up to $150,000 in DOE funding. MATERIA USA LLC (Inwood, NY).

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Tesla Megapack project breaks ground, Arizona’s largest project yet

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For utilities, battery energy storage is one of the most helpful new technologies they can employ to reduce fossil fuel dependence and increase the reliability of their associated grid. A new Tesla Megapack project has broken ground in Arizona, and when it comes online in 2024, it will be the state’s largest energy storage system.

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IEEE’s Plan To Help Combat Climate Change

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For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. Battery energy storage.

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UCS proposes plug-in cars roadblock: What's wrong with Big Enviro?

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Scientific studies comparing the emissions from a gas car's tailpipe and the electric car's smokestack, so to speak, range from "a wash" (all coal) to "a big win" for the electric car (natural gas, hydro, nuclear, renewables or even a combination including some coal.) This will all change as plug-in electric cars hit the road.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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During the Tunnel Circuit event, which took place in August 2019 in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s experimental coal mine, on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, many teams lost communication with their robots after the first bend in the tunnel.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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Sierra Nevada Corporation. The expected CoSTAR-specific challenges are of course the complexity of the test-site that DARPA has prepared, fatigue of the team, and the usual last-minute hardware failures: we had to have an entire new set of batteries for all of our communication nodes FedExed to us yesterday. Team CERBERUS. Follow Team.