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Harbour Air and magniX partner to build world’s first all-electric airline; seaplanes to ePlanes

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Operating 12 routes between hubs such as Seattle and Vancouver and across the Pacific Northwest, Harbour Air welcomes more than 500,000 passengers on 30,000 commercial flights each year. Through this partnership, both companies are furthering the vision to someday connect communities with clean, efficient and affordable electric air travel.

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U Delaware team develops prototype efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for transportation

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In an invited paper at the 233 rd ECS Meeting in Seattle last year, the Delaware researchers noted that: DAFCs-HEM sound attractive but they also have some significate drawbacks: first, the overall performance of DAFCs-HEM are rather low (? —Zhao et al. Zhao et al. 2019.07.005.

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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On 21 April 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened to the public. government committed US $9 million to help build a NASA-themed science exhibit at the Seattle World’s Fair. Musser created the more affordable desktop model shown at top for the Seattle World’s Fair. The fair’s iconic landmark was the Space Needle.

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Tesla to expand START training program to Austin, funneling talent for Giga Texas

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When business and education come together, we build connections that make college affordable and link students directly with employers so they can go straight into a promising career. It’s about getting creative to design and build machines of the future. Tesla believes strongly in collaboration.

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OSU study finds varied impact of pandemic on public transit use across US

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Large, coastal cities such as Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, DC saw demand fall further than cities in the Midwest and South. These are the health care workers, people working service jobs, working in grocery stores, people who clean and maintain buildings. We need to build our public transit systems to serve these people.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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The Climate Foundation , the Seattle-based company behind the project, has found that this deep cycling makes kelp grow three times as fast as it can when kept in shallow waters, as seaweed farmers do now. It’s our hope in 2024 to validate our model and then, as [they] say in Silicon Valley, design it once and build it a million times.”

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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

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by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Rivian builds its vehicles in Normal, Illinois. Along with the EDV, it builds the R1T , an all-electric truck, and R1S, an all-electric SUV. Louis, among other cities,” the e-commerce giant said.