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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Fusion energy company TAE Technologies launches power management subsidiary TAE Power Solutions

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To leverage these unique capabilities beyond fusion, TAE Power Solutions developed proprietary intelligent AC power (ACi) and Converter Battery Module (CBM) technology that features fully integrated energy storage and power electronics to unlock greater efficiency and performance from modern power systems. billion.

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New $20M XPRIZE tackles conversion of CO2 into products

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Teams are challenged to develop breakthrough technologies that convert the most CO 2 into one or more products with the highest net value. Active prizes include the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE; the $15M Global Learning XPRIZE; the $10M Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE; and the $7M Adult Literacy XPRIZE.

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Acer Goes Big on Glasses-Free, 3D Monitors—Look Out, VR

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The launch is paired with AI-powered software for converting existing 2D content into stereoscopic 3D. “We Acer has harnessed this for SpatialLabs GO, a software utility that can convert full-screen content from 2D to stereoscopic 3D. I think I can build the scene with even more depth. We’re building this ourselves,” said Hsu.

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Renewable fuels and biochar company Cool Planet closes on $100M Series D financing

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The company’s process also produces a biochar-based product called CoolTerra that has the capability of making the fuel “carbon negative,” reversing the consequences of CO 2 build-up from fossil fuels, the company says. North Bridge Venture Partners and Concord Energy were the lead investors for the round.

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Schiff Amendment would provide resources to restart Plutonium-238 production for RTGs

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These small devices convert the heat generated by the radioactive decay of plutonium-238 is converted into electricity using solid-state thermoelectrics. (Pu-238 In the early 1990s, the US shut down Pu-238 production, and since then, the DOE has been using stockpiled material and material purchased from Russia to build these devices.

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Dow Kokam to provide Li-ion packs to Motiv Power and ZeroTruck for medium-duty electric commercial vehicles

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Motiv Power Systems, an electric drive power control system provider, with funding from the California Energy Commission, is using Dow Kokam’s battery system to convert a Class 4, Ford E-450 diesel chassis to a completely electric system for a passenger shuttle bus.

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