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Junkyard Find: 1977 Dodge Tradesman 200 Mystery Machine

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You get the idea. The build tag says it was built at St. Louis Assembly , and that its first engine was a 318-cubic-inch V8 with one-barrel carburetor. You can get away with a Mystery Machine race wagon, too, as long as the team's costumes measure up. A Sentra Mystery Machine? Subaru Mystery Machine?

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis; and Costas D.

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What Is Hyperloop? And What Does It Offer?

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Potential routes include New York-Washington DC, Pune-Mumbai, Kansas City-St. Louis, Bratislava-Brno, Vijaywada-Amaravati, and many others. Is it really a novel idea? Nobody has gotten very far with the teleportation idea, alas, but a number of companies have seized on the potential of the Hyperloop. Let’s inspect.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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The big idea is to develop small, efficient biorefineries that can process local biomass, saving the cost and trouble of transporting and storing biomass from a larger region. Louis; the State of Iowa; the Iowa Energy Center; and Iowa State.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. This had its advantages. Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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Electrify Your Fleet Faster With Incentives and Rebates

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Not long ago, the idea that major corporations around the world would make the bold move of switching to all-electric vehicle fleets would have seemed far-fetched, if not inconceivable. Luke Daugherty is a freelance writer, editor and former operations manager based in St. Nowadays, it’s a different story. Make the transition today.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. The government aims to begin work on a national infrastructure but expects the private sector to take the lead in building the charging networks needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. based in st.