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Utah Transits Authority adding 5 battery-electric New Flyer buses to fleet

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UTA and the University of Utah received a $5.4-million million Low-No grant from the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to purchase five New Flyer battery-electric buses. Three of these will be used on route 2 in Salt Lake City and two that will serve the University of Utah campus (also in Salt Lake City). Earlier post.)

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Michigan Tech receives $2.5M ARPA-E MINER award for carbon storage and extraction of critical minerals from mine tailings

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The DOE awarded grants to develop rapid carbon mineralization and critical mineral extraction technology to 16 projects nationwide, totaling $39 million. Chemical engineering professors Tim Eisele and David Shonnard are co-PIs on the three-year project, along with researchers from University of Utah and University of Nevada, Reno.

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Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah.

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Obama Administration launches $200M Big Data Research and Development Initiative

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The Big Data initiative is intended to: (1) advance state-of-the-art core technologies needed to collect, store, preserve, manage, analyze, and share huge quantities of data; (2) harness these technologies to accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineering; and (3) expand the workforce needed to develop and use Big Data technologies.

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kWh Billing and New EV Charging Tax Policies: What You Need to Know

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The Department of Revenue may grant dealer-users permission to report annually, subject to specified criteria. Utah is set to implement a new kWh tax in January 2024. Charging station operators in Utah must remit the tax electronically, adhering to the same schedule as sales and use tax filings.

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How Federal and State Government Incentives Make It Easy to Become an EV Owner

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Whether you are looking to purchase your first electric vehicle (EV), your next EV, or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) for your home, the United States has incentives, rebates, grants, and programs to help. Electricity in this case.) The refueling property is placed in service during the tax year.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The BitBlt software enabled application programs to mix and manipulate rectangular arrays of pixel values in on-screen or off-screen memory, or between the two, combining the pixel values and storing the result in the appropriate bit-map location. Apple alleges that HP’s New Wave interface, requiring version 2.03 In March 1989, U.S.

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