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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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To find out about the latest technologies being used by the agricultural industry, I virtually attended the second annual AgTech Innovation Summit , held in February in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It has another R&D complex in Abu Dhabi, plus a commercial farm in Danville, Va. that has an R&D facility.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Co-optimization of Vehicle Specification and Routing to Improve Commercial Transportation System Efficiency and Reduce Deadheading. Louis Vehicle Electrification Rides for Seniors (SiLVERS). Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Roush Industries. Waste Not, Want Hot? PACCAR Inc.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The proposed facility will support industrial-scale production of advanced lithiated anodes for multiple battery cell makers and automobile manufacturers. Group14 Technologies , Commercial Manufacturing of a Stable Silicon Anode Material Towards Fostering a Strong US Battery Supply Chain, $100,000,000. Applied Materials, Inc.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The proposed facility will support industrial-scale production of advanced lithiated anodes for multiple battery cell makers and automobile manufacturers. Group14 Technologies , Commercial Manufacturing of a Stable Silicon Anode Material Towards Fostering a Strong US Battery Supply Chain, $100,000,000. Applied Materials, Inc.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles). The project also includes construction of a B20 station.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. That could save the chemical industry more than $9 billion annually, according to the US Department of Energy’s announcement of the institute. 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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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. But Xerox resisted.

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