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Yellow Cab Chicago Awards Clean Energy 10-Year Contract to Build and Operate Two CNG Fueling Stations

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million in grant funding from the City of Chicago and the Department of Energy to help defer the costs of station construction and acquiring new CNG taxi vehicles. Natural gas produces up to 30% lower greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline fuel in light-duty and medium-duty vehicles. Clean Energy also owns BAF Technologies, Inc.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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These projects put more than 9,000 alternative fuel and energy-efficient light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road, and establish 542 refueling locations across the country. Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education.

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CleanFUEL USA Secures $12.9 Million from US DOE for 100+ Propane Refueling Stations

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million in two stimulus grants to CleanFUEL USA to establish more than 100 liquid propane (autogas) refueling stations in major US cities in coordination with CleanFUEL USA partners, including ConocoPhillips. school buses, shuttle buses, medium and light duty trucks, etc.), The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $12.9

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World Space Week

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Satellites are everywhere in our lives, which means we often take them for granted, but not anymore, lets big up the satellite this World Space week, I mean, imagine the world without GPS navigation? After sunset when the sky is dark, go outside and turn off any outdoor lights. World Space Week ! Whats happening? Look at the stars.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Sketchpad users could not only draw points, line segments, and circular arcs on a cathode ray tube (CRT) with a light pen—they could also assign constraints to, and relationships among, whatever they drew. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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The orchestration level entails the evolution from synchronized traffic lights to dynamically adjusted traffic lights to advanced mapping services that route cars around traffic jams. Directed EMF beams might cause a short circuit on sensitive electronics, and lasers or bright lights might confuse or destroy camera sensors.

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