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Port of Los Angeles breaks ground on $137M railyard that will increase on-dock rail efficiency, reduce congestion and improve environment

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The railyard will be constructed with $16 million in federal grant money from the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program (TIGER). million from the State Proposition 1B Trade Corridors Improvement Fund (TCIF) Grant that is administered by Caltrans and $22.1 The Port secured $51.2

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NSF Awards NCSU Team $2M For Research on Deriving Drop-in Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels from Algae

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Bill Roberts, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and primary investigator of the grant. The $2 million grant is part of the federal stimulus package and comes from NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Dunaliella. Source: Texas A&M. Click to enlarge.

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NYC Goes EV

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Imagine it is 2013 in New York City. billion in stimulus grants to the industry. .&# ‘ Here is the text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Will Electric Cars Give New York a Charge? by Lars Vercelli. This Tesla is one of a number of electric cars coming on the market. Or No Cars?

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EP29LPSP: Applications in Plasma Physics, Astronomy, and Highway Engineering

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Dissertation, Princeton University, 2013. 8 January 2013. Numerical Performance Prediction of a Miniature Ramjet at Mach 4 , MS thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. 5 Xu, Jingke. Study of Argon from Underground Sources for Direct Dark Matter Detection. 6 Hsu, Scott C. link] 7 Snow, David, et al. US Patent 6,096,450. 1 August 2000.

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The Long Road to Today’s Cochlear Implant

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As Albert Mudry and Mara Mills documented in their 2013 retrospective article “ The Early History of the Cochlear Implant ,” electrical stimulation of the ear dates to at least 1748, when Benjamin Wilson stimulated the scalp of a deaf woman with electricity. Even failure informed their work.

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