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UT Arlington licenses technology for portable, modular GTL conversion units; targeting stranded gas

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The University of Texas at Arlington has licensed technology for converting natural gas to synthetic liquid fuels (GTL) in portable units at a cost lower than current market rates to 1 st Resource Group Inc. UT Arlington engineering and science researchers designed a portable conversion unit utilizing their microreactor and process.

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Clean Cities Autogas Vehicle Conversion Program Rolls Out First of 1,189 LPG Cars in Virginia

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Arlington, Va.-based based Red Top Cab provided the first vehicle for conversion under the program. The founding partners of Alliance AutoGas—a national propane Autogas vehicle conversion and fueling network—are closely involved with the program.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. Louisville, Colo. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif.

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Chevrolet Equinox EV and GM Electrified Pickups Delayed

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Conversely, the relevant earnings call does seem to have directly influenced the UAW to call for a walkout at GM's Arlington Assembly plant. The facility is responsible for manufacturing the Cadillac Escalade, Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Yukon XL. And then also. Though we’ll have to wait and see.

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Chevrolet one of 16 organizations across US recognized by EPA for Climate Action; only automaker

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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manufacturing process that, if successful, has the potential to. the use of a new motor design, addition of emerging materials, and the incorporation of advanced manufacturing techniques. Arlington). advanced manufacturing process that, if successful, has the potential to yield a several-fold reduction in wire costs.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” They hired me to run a hundred-million-dollar program on automated manufacturing. Bob Kahn Soon after he arrived at DARPA, Congress pulled the plug on funding for the proposed automated-manufacturing effort. Bob Kahn graduated from high school in 1955.

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