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Study found highly elevated PM2.5 in pre-COVID-19 subway air in NE US; NYC the worst

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concentrations and particle composition from area samples collected in the subways of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York/New Jersey (NYC/NJ); and Washington, District of Columbia. g/m 3 , followed by Boston at 140 ?g/m g/m 3 ), followed by the MTA New York at 251 ?g/m

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Electra raises $85M to advance Low-Temperature Iron process; electrochemical refining at 60?C

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By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced. The 50-person company recently opened a new office in Boston, MA to help expand its roster of engineers, scientists, and professional support staff.

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Unitree's AlienGo Quadruped Can Now Wield a Lightsaber

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I don’t want to draw too many comparisons to Boston Dynamics here, but Spot’s arm comes with autonomous and semi-autonomous behaviors built-in, allowing otherwise complex actions to be leveraged by commercial end users.

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Brussels Airport just added 700 EV chargers and they don’t have idle fees

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To spotlight how Brussels is trailblazing considering its size, for comparison, LAX, the sixth-busiest airport in the world , has 400 EV charging stations (and it says it’s adding 1,200 more). If I left my EV for weeks at Logan Airport in Boston, with just 58 charging stations, it’d probably get towed.)

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TomTom launches Congestion Index based on traffic database; congestion levels in 57 cities in North America and Europe

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Conversely, Edmonton, New York, Boston, Minneapolis and Toronto experienced a reduction in congestion levels. Based on the comparison with 2011, Bradford – Leeds in the UK saw the biggest increase in traffic congestion with journey times slowing significantly. Marseille, 41%. Brussels, 34%. Paris, 32%. Dublin, 30%. London, 27%.

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Advances in the conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials

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A collaboration including researchers from Boston College, MIT, the University of Virginia and Clemson University have achieved a peak ZT (thermoelectric figure of merit) of 0.8 ZT of ball-milled and hot-pressed sample in comparison with that of the ingot. Zhifeng Ren’s group at Boston College, suggested. Click to enlarge.

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THINK Releases US EV-Ready Cities Index

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The remaining cities included Denver, Boston, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Phoenix. THINK developed the EV-Ready Cities Index to measure which markets are most likely to begin and benefit from the transition to electric vehicles, providing an objective comparison of the EV purchase and usage incentives as well as the market fit for EVs.

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