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Bridgestone awarded $35M USDA Climate-Smart Grant to advance guayule natural rubber production

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The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35-million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule ( earlier post ) to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber industry and offer a solution for growers amid the ongoing water crisis in the Southwestern US.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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National Robotics Initiative invests $38 million in next-generation robotics

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USDA announced five grants totaling $4.5 These awards include research projects to develop robotics for fruit harvesting, early disease and stress detection in fruits and vegetables and water sampling in remote areas. This year, NASA has continued to support all projects it awarded in 2012.

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Study of 7 years of production data supports billion-ton biofuels feedstock estimate

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Now, a new analysis of up to seven years of production data gathered through the Regional Feedstock Partnership, established by DOE and the Sun Grant Initiative, supports the billon-ton estimate. —North Central Regional Sun Grant Center Director Vance Owens. That amount could be available annually by 2030. Click to enlarge.

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BC government won’t support Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline as presented over spill response concerns

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For example: the behavior in water of the material to be transported is incompletely understood; the terrain the pipeline wold cross is not only remote, it is in many places extremely difficult to access; the impact of spills into pristine river environments would be profound. —BC Environment Minister Terry Lake.

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Shell Technology Ventures to invest several $100 millions in emerging tech companies over next 6-8 years

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The company will look at areas including gas production and conversion; geophysical imaging; chemical manufacturing and conversion; novel materials; enhanced oil recovery; and water treatment. Partners may be granted access to Shell’s technical experts, its global research capability and its customer, supplier and contractor base.

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Athabasca Oil Sands sells remainder of interest in MacKay River oil sands project to PetroChina for C$680M; PetroChina to be full owner of project

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As a result, PetroChina will have full ownership of the project, which received full regulatory approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water in December. of its MacKay River interest, Athabasca’s 2012 capital budget will be reduced by approximately $190. end of 2012.

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