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LIVE BLOG: Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2025 Company Update and earnings call

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Musk reiterates his belief that its important to fight waste and fraud. The actual reason for the protests is that those who are receiving the waste and fraud want to continue receiving the waste and fraud, he said. Granted, FSD is insistent that drivers pay attention to the road, which affects the pricing.

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Singapores A*Star Awards S$27.5M In Research Grants for Technologies for Sustainable Development

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In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Brown Chemists Develop Process to Simplify Waste Vegetable Oil to Biodiesel Process, Chart Progress of Transesterification Reaction

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Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. Current techniques for the conversion of waste vegetable oil to biodiesel take time, are costly and are inefficient. —Jason Sello.

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RPI team develops method to use paper-making by-product in lithium-sulfur batteries

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Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries.

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

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Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock. Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful. Chang Dou, Devin S. Chandler, Fernando L. 7b01000.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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By simply grinding together two cheap precursors in a basic milling machine, the MOF material is produced in a matter of minutes, in a powder form, ready for applications without further treatment, and without generating solvent waste. Granting of the patent enabled the formation of MOF Technologies from Queen’s spin-out arm QUBIS.

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