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Cellulosic biogasoline company Cool Planet completes second close of D Round, raises another $19.4M; $60M total

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Cool Planet will use a portion of the equity raise to finalize engineering design for the company’s first commercial facility. This work will be supported by leading international engineering firm, URS Corporation, as the company recently announced.

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BMW Group sourcing aluminum produced using solar energy from EGA

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The BMW Group already has a long-standing supply relationship for primary aluminum with Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA). EGA has now become the first company in the world to also use solar electricity for commercial production of aluminum, which it will initially supply exclusively to the BMW Group. million cast components.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. The receiver transfers heat to an engine or generator and, depending on the heat transfer fluid, can deliver thermal energy of up to 600 °C , the company claims. A 30-kilowatt, 42-square-meter aperture production unit is in development.

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SpaceX set to launch Japanese Moon lander, NASA ice surveyor cubesat

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The lander is made by several commercial partners: ispace has provided most of its design and structures, but Europe’s ArianeGroup supplied all of HAKUTO-R’s engines, plumbing, and propulsion hardware and was responsible for most of the final assembly process.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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The heat can drive steam turbines or engines to generate electricity around the clock. The receiver transfers heat to an engine or generator and, depending on the heat transfer fluid, can deliver thermal energy of up to 600 °C , the company claims. A 30-kilowatt, 42-square-meter aperture production unit is in development.

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Etihad Airways and partners launch roadmap for sustainable aviation biofuels in UAE

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Etihad Airways, together with Boeing, Total, Takreer and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, launched a joint industry roadmap for the sustainable production of aviation biofuels in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Earlier post , earlier post.). However, the blend percentage will likely be lower than 50% percent.

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The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer

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I was fortunate to work with mainframes during my second year as an electrical engineering student in the United Arab Emirates University at Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, in 1986. The first PC In San Antonio, a group of visionary engineers from NASA founded CTC with the goal of revolutionizing desktop computing.