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DOE awards $10.6M to ROGUE to engineer energycane, Miscanthus to produce oil for biodiesel, biojet fuel

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million, five-year grant to transform two of the most productive crops in the US into sustainable sources of biodiesel and biojet fuel. Energycane will be evaluated at Florida and Mississippi, and Miscanthus will be tested at Illinois. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6-million,

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New solid polymer electrolyte outperforms Nafion; novel polymer folding

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Butler Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and Taylor W. This new structure is the result of a special chemical synthesis route developed by Wagener’s group at the University of Florida. Moed, an undergraduate member of the Winey lab, was a co-author. They collaborated with Kenneth B.

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SpaceX Starship factory aiming to build five megarockets in 2023

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SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas hardware endeavors began in an empty field in late 2018, kicking off Starhopper testing in 2019. Starship’s FAA orbital launch license, which has yet to be granted, could be even more restrictive.

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SpaceX’s last Starlink launch of 2022 is a bit of a mystery

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In October 2018, the FCC granted SpaceX permission to launch a very low earth orbit (VLEO) constellation of 7518 Starlink satellites with dimensions similar to satellites that make up the 4408-satellite constellation the company is currently launching.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced $55 million in grant selections through the Low or No Emission (Low-No) Vehicle program, which funds the development of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced fuel technologies. AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018.

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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

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He also serves on the Board of Drive Electric Florida, and chairs the Florida Electric Power Coordinating Group, which represents most of the utilities in the state of Florida, and leads the Group’s subcommittee for electrification. Back in 2018, there were roughly 2,300 EVs in OUC territory. Is that an issue in Florida?

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

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I launched Emporia in the spring of 2018 with co-founders Ted Graham and Franz Ketwig—we have worked together since 2006 in the commodities trading space, and they now share the Chief Technical Officer role at Emporia. For example, I have a solar system at my house, but we don’t have a TOU program here in Florida.

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