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GM makes its largest green energy purchase to date; 50 MW wind deal

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General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its US facilities, including business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals. Earlier post.)The

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. He joined UTA—then known as Arlington State College—in 1962 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. Part of that process was recruiting, motivating, and mentoring students. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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GE Receives $1.4B Contract to Supply Turbines for Largest Wind Farm Yet Built in the US

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Stretching across 30 square miles of Gilliam and Morrow Counties in north-central Oregon, near the town of Arlington, the 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat project marks the US debut and largest single global order of GE’s 2.5xl wind turbines, which has been proven in Europe and Asia.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Think Globally. Department of Defense, Arthur Andersen , and the Commission of European Communities reinforced the message that all major stakeholders were behind the global adoption of OSI. have recently begun to offer TCP/IP as part of their product lines…. Keynote speakers from the upper levels of the U.S.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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The distinctive ‘terroir’ that flavors wine, the yield of maize and other crops, and the productivity of any plant community rely in part on the respective rhizosphere microbiome. Microbial metagenomics and transcriptomics from a global deep-ocean expedition. University of Texas at Arlington. Affiliation. Project Description.