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Duke Energy and ITOCHU to assess second-life applications for Li-ion automotive batteries

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Duke Energy and ITOCHU’s program builds upon their involvement in Project Plug-IN, a large-scale public/private EV initiative based in Indianapolis. Initial testing will occur in Duke Energy’s Indiana service territory. Duke Energy and Tokyo-based ITOCHU Corp. Earlier post.).

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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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The new $148-million lightweight metals manufacturing institute announced in February by President Obama ( earlier post ) will locate in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, officials from the American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII) and the city announced today.

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Swaying toward EV mobility

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Attacking the problem The idea for Sway Mobility came in 2017, when Peters was working in sustainability with different neighborhoods in Cleveland. “I Since spreading across Ohio, Sway Mobility has now moved its Bolts into Michigan and will soon be expanding into Indiana. “In Rental periods average approximately 1.5

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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He was awarded an honorary doctorate in business administration by Indiana University in Bloomington. While there, he suggested the company build more accurate calibration systems. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. He also was a member of the IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu honor society.

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FTA awarding $55M to 10 projects deploying battery-electric and fuel-cell buses

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Sunline Transit Agency, in partnership with the Southern California Association of Governments, will receive funding to build and deploy five hydrogen electric hybrid fuel cell buses. BAE Systems, Ballard Power Systems and ElDorado National will team up to build the new zero-emission buses. Transit Authority of River City (TARC).

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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At times directly affecting residential neighborhoods, the large-scale industrial process has strained many US communities. Shrock Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Indiana University, Ritts is a National Science Foundation CAREER grant recipient, and an expert on oil and gas exploration. Previously the Robert R.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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(For a deeper dive into Pong ’s design, see Hugo Holden’s article, “ Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC’s ,” Dan Boris’s redraw of the circuit diagram , and Ricardo Ramos’s account of building a Pong clone.). To celebrate the half-century persistence of.