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SwRI opens new high-horsepower dynamometer facility to service marine, rail and petroleum industries

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In addition to the two test cells, there is an engine preparation and staging area within the same building. SwRI established a separate locomotive engine facility in 1990 in a San Antonio railyard to facilitate work on engines installed in locomotives.

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UPS to invest $100M more in compressed natural gas, CNG vehicles and related infrastructure

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UPS plans to build an additional 12 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 380 new CNG tractors to its growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. CNG is made by compressing natural gas to less than one percent of the volume it occupies at standard atmospheric pressure. San Antonio, Texas; Tifton, Ga.;

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The Boring Company in talks with Kyle, TX for pedestrian tunnel

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TBC will build its standard 12-foot inner diameter and 13.5-foot Elon Musk’s tunneling company is also in talks with the City of Austin and San Antonio for potential projects. Besides pedestrians, the underpass will accommodate electric vehicles and bicycles.

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Basic transportation, EV style

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Members of the new University of Texas San Antonio EAA chapter ready for go-kart competition. Two years later, the family moved to San Antonio to open a second Johnny Rockets. There, Javier enrolled at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) as a freshman committed to earning a mechanical engineering degree.

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DOE awarding up to $80M for supercritical CO2 pilot plant

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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But we also want to go beyond the facility and create a community where researchers will be able to discuss new ideas, share solutions that others can build on or contribute traces and workloads representative of real life cloud usage.

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BMW Group Technology Office USA and Tendril to demonstrate electric vehicle and smart energy home integration

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Tendril, provider of a cloud-based energy management platform, and the BMW Group Technology Office USA are partnering to build out a demonstration smart energy home in Mountain View, Calif. Tendril Connect provides the open standards-based communications, extensibility and security necessary to support billions of networked devices.

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