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Biofuels Center of North Carolina to close due to state’s elimination of its funding

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The Biofuels Center of North Carolina has begun to shut down operations over a 90-day period and will close its doors by Thursday, 31 October 2013, due to the North Carolina General Assembly’s elimination of its funding in the state budget signed recently by Gov. Pat McCrory.

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NSC: US motor vehicle fatalities up 9% in 1H 2016; trending toward deadliest driving year since 2007

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States that have been particularly hard hit since 2014, the start of the upward trend, are Florida (43% increase), Georgia (34%), Indiana (33%), California (31%), North Carolina (26%), Illinois (24%) and Kentucky (24%). NSC estimates 438 people will be killed during the three-day holiday weekend.

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EIA: E85 fueling station availability is increasing, but slowly; in 2% of all retail stations

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The number of retail fueling stations offering E85 blend (up to 85% ethanol) has grown rapidly since 2007, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The share of nationwide E85 stations in the five traditional ethanol-producing states of the Midwest fell from 54% in 2007 to 36% in 2013.

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Cummins Westport introducing new ISB6.7 G mid-range natural gas engine

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The SEGR technology was introduced with the ISL G in 2007, and was developed to meet 2010 EPA emission requirements. G will be manufactured in Cummins’ medium-duty engine plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The ISB6.7 liter ISL G. Partial funding in support of the ISB6.7 The ISB6.7

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Startup Blue Current seeking to commercialize non-flammable fluorinated electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

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UGA team develops method for genetic engineering of Caldicellulosiruptor thermophilic bacteria; another pathway for efficient conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals

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In July, a team of researchers at BESC from North Carolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Georgia reported the analysis of the genomes of eight species of Caldicellulosiruptor and identified key proteins for the deconstruction of plant biomass into fermentable sugars.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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In addition, she is a visiting scholar at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , in Greensboro. EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.”

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