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Tech: John Deere: High Tech Down on the Farm

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Tech: John Deere: High Tech Down on the Farm Higher Farm Yields through Innovation, Advanced Technology and Sustainability The sight of a farmer sitting in a tractor for hours and hours working a field is being replaced by a semi-automated agricultural machine with no human behind the wheel. Story by John Faulkner.

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Successful demonstration of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology for recovering fine coal particles from waste slurries

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A full-scale test of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology at a Jim Walter Resources Inc. coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. Virginia Tech’s Center for Advanced Separation Technologies (CAST) successfully tested its prototype technology at a variety of coal-cleaning plants.

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California Energy Commission awards Sierra Northern Railway team nearly $4M to demonstrate hydrogen switching locomotive; H2RAM

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To build the locomotive and demonstrate its operations in a real-world environment. Other technical partners are Railpower Tech LLC, Ballard Power Systems, Optifuel Systems LLC, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, Valley Vision, Velocity Strategies, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District.

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Making Information Tech Greener Can Help Address the Climate Crisis

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Here are several strategies we can employ to address the climate crisis and create a sustainable environment for us and the generations that follow. computational cost of advanced AI applications that use deep-learning models increased by 300,000 times, causing a significant rise in electric power consumption and resource utilization.

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DOE issues request for information for Grand Challenges in Subsurface Engineering

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Subsurface reservoirs account for more than 80% of US primary energy, and also offer potential for the storage of energy, CO 2 , and nuclear waste. DOE established the SubTER Tech Team to address crosscutting grand challenges associated with the use of the subsurface for energy extraction and storage purposes. Background.

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Bill Ford: Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution; emphasis on green and smart technologies

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These so-called megacities will present a unique challenge to personal mobility, threatening the economy, the environment, and even the health of their residents. Pedestrian walkways, bicycles, buses, planes, trains, automobiles, everything is going to have to be fully integrated using real-time data to save time and conserve resources.

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Virginia Tech professor proposes simple biomass-to-wheel efficiency analysis to inform decisions on biomass/biofuel/powertrain combinations; the advantage of sugar fuel cell vehicles

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However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. Zhang proposes using a simple biomass-to-wheel (BTW) energy efficiency analysis to help make a more informed decision for how to utilize (limited) biomass resources more efficiently. vehicle service, taxes, subsidies, infrastructure costs for repairing and rebuilding, resource availability, etc.),

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