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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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The systems reduce water consumption and minimize the need for pesticides and herbicides. By supplying plants with the precise amount of water, nutrients, and light, indoor farming creates an ideal environment for their growth. Plants are grown in nutrient-rich solutions. Thierry E.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn.

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Association of Independent Plant Research Institutes (AIPI) forms with focus on renewable energy, ecosystem services and sustainable agriculture

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Scientific leaders from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell University); The Carnegie Institution for Science;, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Mo.); In addition, advanced greenhouse and field resources allow science to mature beyond the laboratory and into tangible outcomes.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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If successful, such a battery would enable the widespread deployment of intermittent renewable resources on the U.S. Washington University in St. The Washington University in St. Louis team will use readily available and inexpensive commercial polymers to create a membrane for use in redox flow batteries.

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