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Honda begins production of new 10-speed transmission in Georgia; nearly $150M investment

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Honda launched global production of a new, state-of-the-art 10-speed automatic transmission at Honda Precision Parts of Georgia, LLC (HPPG) in Tallapoosa, Georgia. HPPG was established in 2006 and annually produces more than 375,000 transmissions for Honda and Acura automobiles.

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Georgia Tech study finds MD electric urban delivery trucks have cost advantages over diesel in some conditions; relative benefits depend on numerous factors

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). The comparison controlled for improvements in diesel efficiency between 2006 and 2011. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. equipment).

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Georgia Tech study projects potential mixed impacts of climate change policies on air quality

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Results of a study by a team from Georgia Tech and their colleagues at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management show that national CO 2 emissions reductions strategies will play an important role in impacting air quality over the US. 2010 and 2048?2052.

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Renewable Energy Group has sold 1 billion gallons of biodiesel

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REG was formed and began operating as an independent company in 2006, as the successor to the biodiesel operations of West Central Cooperative in Ralston, IA, which first began producing biodiesel from a one million gallon per year batch plant in 1996.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. In 2006 he was promoted to head of the department.

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US Departments of Agriculture, Energy partner to award $4.9M for bioenergy research

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million in research grants is awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006; DOE is providing $2.9 University of Georgia. million in funding over 3 years, while USDA will award $2 million over 3 years. 1,000,0000.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention. The invention was used by the U.S.