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DOE announces 15 Phase 1 semifinalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

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Oregon State University – Espiku. Texas Tech University – Tech Desal. The Salton Sea region of California has the potential to supply 600,000 tons of lithium each year, which exceeds the current annual US demand for lithium. George Washington University – Ellexco. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Lithium from Home.

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Agrivoltaics Goes Nuclear On California Prairie

CleanTechnica EVs

A decommissioned nuclear power plant from the 1980s is repurposed for agrivoltaics and prairie restoration.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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The winning coalition, headquartered in Los Angeles, California brings together a consortium of nearly 200 partners from across academia, industry, and non-profits to spur advances in smart sensors and digital process controls that can significantly improve the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. Missouri U. Purdue U.

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Tesla Model Y becomes a hotel amenity thanks to ride-sharing platform Envoy

Teslarati

“The versatile Tesla Model Y crossover will offer plenty of space for guest parties to zip around Miami in comfort with all the innovative tech bells and whistles.” including Florida , California , Oregon , Washington , New York, and Illinois. Envoy is available across the U.S. I’d love to hear from you!

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Honda looks to build a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada

Baua Electric

Reports say that Canadian industry minister Francois-Philippe Champagne has spent most of last year building up EV investments to solidify the country’s clean-tech future by offering tax breaks and the promise of overflowing renewable energy sources and rare minerals used in EVs.

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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

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Four of the top 15 markets are in California: San Francisco (1), Los Angeles (2), San Diego (7) and Sacramento (8). Oregon has a Chief EV Officer to promote EV use. Adoption of EVs in the market also has been accelerated by peer-to-peer selling at tech and transportation workplaces such as Texas Instruments and BNSF Railroad.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Oregon State University. University of California - San Diego. NTRE Tech LLC. Global Algae Innovations. Scale-up of Novel Algae Drying and Extraction Unit Operations. North Carolina State University. Scaling Up Biocrude Derived Anode Material (BDAM). Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. 1,999,882. .

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