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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

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Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. This is more than the bottom 60% of users combined. The top 20% of gasoline users burn 48%.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The light source is a blue LED with a peak wavelength of 455 nm.

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Video Friday: An Agile Year

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Agility Robotics ] Houston Mechatronics is now Nauticus Robotics, and they have a fancy new video to prove it. In addition, a KR AGILUS performs as a light artist and enchants with soft and expansive movements. All in all, the show cell is home to a cool group called the Kjays. And if that was too much for you to handle (?)

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Stress Levels Revealed in Micro-Beads of Sweat

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Sometimes climatic conditions don't lend themselves to creating enough sweat to analyze. Complementary closed-loop research University of Houston researcher Rose Faghih is eager to have access to the EnLiSense sensor. But translating raw perspiration into "sweat equity" in real time in everyday life is not an easy task.

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Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

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Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Harvesting Infrared Light to Improve Photosynthetic Biomass Production - $1,347,122. University of Houston. University of Washington.

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‘The Plane Is Fine’: An Airline Course Looks to Overcome Fear in the Skies

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About 20 percent have “an underlying anxiety that manifests as fear of flying,” said Douglas Boyd, an aviation researcher who runs a fear-of-flying course in Houston. The course includes a deep dive into the mechanics and operation of an airplane. For instance: On Jan.

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