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California ARB Releases Peer Review Documents for Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the final external peer review documents regarding the proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. The four peer reviewers were: Linsey Marr, Virginia Tech. John Reilly, MIT. Valerie Thomas, Georgia Tech. Denise Mauzerall, Princeton University.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. The CO 2 -rich steam leaving the membranes is processed further to remove the water so it can be regenerated into steam at the most energy efficient conditions.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. University of California, Santa Cruz. A SELF-REPLICATING 3D PRINTER.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J. Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. The world’s first-to-market electric pickup truck, it turns out, isn’t from Ford, General Motors, or a late-to-market Tesla Cybertruck.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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The story of Pixar doesn't start with its founding—a tech company's story rarely does. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. Because California is a community-property state, George effectively lost half his fortune overnight.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into fuel.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. University of California. California - San Diego, Moog Inc., heating and water purification. The plant will incorporate features that. This will allow a. The team will.

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