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Harvard team develops cleaner method to separate rare-earth metals using bacteria

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Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a cleaner method to extract rare earth metals. This research was supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Office of Naval Research. Processing one ton of rare earths can produce 2,000 tons of toxic waste. —William Bonificio.

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GE Aviation and the University of Cincinnati collaborate on new research center

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GE Aviation, in collaboration with the University of Cincinnati Research Institute (UCRI), has created the GE Aviation Research Center at the company’s world headquarters in Evendale, Ohio. The scope of this agreement marks a first in Ohio between a leading aerospace company and a leading university research institute.

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New MOF material has potential to cut costs and make nuclear fuel recycling cleaner

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By working at ambient temperature, the new material has the potential to save energy, make reprocessing cleaner and less expensive. Thallapally (2016) “Metal-Organic Framework with Optimal Adsorption, Separation, and Selectivity towards Xenon”, Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms11831. Debasis Banerjee, Cory M. Simon, Anna M.

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

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The distribution of California’s clean vehicle rebates across different socioeconomic groups has been uneven, with higher income groups more likely to receive rebates, according to a new study by a team from the University of California, Berkeley. —Rubin and St-Louis (2016). —Rubin and St-Louis (2016).

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. His contributions enabled the company to release its first Google Home product, a smart speaker, in 2016. That was a really rewarding experience,” he says.

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Electric vehicle charging stations worth a complete of quite $1.7 million

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million is coming to 26 government agencies, universities, and electric utilities in Louisiana. million shares of an almost $3 billion settlement in 2016 between the U.S. Almost half the new buses are fueled by cleaner-burning propane or compressed natural gas; the others are cleaner-burning diesel engines.

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Study projects global carbon footprint from ICT will be equivalent to half of transportation’s current level by 2040

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in 2007 to exceed 14% of the 2016-level worldwide GHGE by 2040, accounting for more than half of the current relative contribution of the whole transportation sector, according to a new study from McMaster University in Canada. 2017.12.239.

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