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GM to use wind power for more than 50% of annual vehicle output from Arlington Assembly plant

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General Motors’ Arlington, Texas, Assembly plant will soon be able to build up to 125,000 trucks a year using wind power. Arlington Assembly produces more than 1,200 vehicles daily, including the Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe; GMC Yukon and Yukon XL; and Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV. million in energy costs annually.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. in 1966 in EE from the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque. After graduating, he joined UT Arlington as a research professor. Nasir Ahmed , professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Mexico, to develop DCT.

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Chevy, GMC struggle for EV/ICE candy spot

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Equinox EV: The electrical model of the Chevy Equinox compact crossover goes into manufacturing on the Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, with deliveries anticipated to start out prior to the top of the month. Corvette EV: An absolutely electrical Corvette may debut in 2026 or 2027. Actual timing is dense.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , Soccoro, N.M. The development of refined and coupled geochemical, mechanical, and flow models will yield better predictions of subsurface CO 2 behavior, thereby assisting the design and implementation of CO 2 geologic storage projects.

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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. The course became the power industry’s hub for continuing education, attended by 1,500 participants from academia and industry.

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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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Additionally, novel enzymes in these fungal genomes may have industrial applications in the biomass pretreatment processes. Creating a successional model for carbon remediation in the Gulf of Mexico. University of Texas at Arlington. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Microbial Interactions in Extremophilic Mat Communities.