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Intel Invests $20-billion in Ohio for Advanced Fabs

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state neither the company nor any other chipmaker has a presence in, Ohio. The company gave no information about the fabs' capacities in terms of wafers per month. "The scope and pace of Intel’s expansion in Ohio. So, why Ohio? Ohio is an ideal location for Intel’s U.S. In comparison, Ohio is a chipmaking frontier.

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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The team is back in the lab to find a fix. Shamlou, Elmira & Vidic, Radisav & Khanna, Vikas.

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Tesla partners with EV charging reliability platform for Destination network

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Tesla’s high-powered V3 Supercharger offers 250 kW for comparison. A study from the University of California Berkley that found that only 72.5% billion in assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri and create 6200 jobs. They are not as powerful as the Tesla Superchargers as they only offer 22 kW of power. ChargerHelp!

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OSU team demonstrates concept of potassium-air battery as alternative to lithium-air systems

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Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O For comparison, they built a Li?O O 2 battery (0.5 M KPF6 in DME) at a current density of 0.16 The dash lines indicate the calculated thermodynamic potentials for the batteries. Credit: ACS, Ren and Wu. Click to enlarge.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. —Herya and Sundaresan.

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EPA Posts Peer Review of Renewable Fuel Standards Lifecycle Analysis

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Participating in this review were Dr. Holly Gibbs, Stanford University; Dr. Richard Houghton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Dr. Rattan Lal, Ohio State University; Dr. Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas; and Dr. Brian Wardlow, University of Nebraska. Boyer, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Kenneth G.

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Study finds fleet switch from PFI to GDI engines will result in net reduction in global warming

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The study, by a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Georgia, Aerodyne Research, California Air Resources Board (ARB), Ohio State University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. May, Greg T. Drozd, Allen H. Goldstein, Lynn M.

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