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Elon Musk provides critical context on hotly-debated “emerald mine” story

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As per the Community Note, which has since disappeared from the post, the post was reportedly “misleading” because Musk “was born into an extremely wealthy family in South Africa.” ” In posts on Twitter in December 2019, however, Musk noted that his father “didn’t own an emerald mine.”

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NSF Awards Rutgers $7.6M for Sustainable Energy Development, Graduate Education

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers University two grants worth $6.4 million to fund graduate research in clean and sustainable energy resources using biotechnology and nanotechnology. million to extend practices developed under earlier NSF graduate research grants. The grant is valued at up to $3.2

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

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I learned to use the onsen properly: to pull up a small stool and a bowl to the shared shower area, to scrub every inch of the body, to shampoo and condition my hair, to clean between my toes and under my fingernails, to rinse my body and the area I occupied. Once clean, you soak. You soak until your body is red with warmth.

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DOE to Award Up to $5M in Grants for RD on Hydrogen Production from Coal

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Global deposits of PGMs are quite limited with the largest quantities located in South Africa and Russia. Platinum and palladium are found in the largest quantities in most PGM ores, while rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium are produced only as co-products.

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Study recommends $10B/year US federal investment in energy RD&D and a substantial price on carbon emissions; leveraging the national labs and encouraging the private sector for a clean energy future

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In addition, the report suggests that the US government as well as state and local governments should adopt a range of sector-specific policies to overcome market failures that are limiting the deployment of energy efficiency and clean-energy technologies as part of a coordinated energy strategy.

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