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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. Tustin, Calif. Louis , Mo.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. You have a wealth of career opportunities and a chance to make an impact.”

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Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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A central concept in the scientific study of cities is that of urban metabolism. The metabolism of a city can be interpreted either primarily in terms of energy flows or more broadly including a city’s flows of water, materials, and nutrients. The total end use emissions for the ten cities range between 4.2 t e CO 2 /cap.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

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The pump drives the closed loop aquaponics system that takes nutrients from fish in a large water tank and delivers them to growing plants in the greenhouse which then filters the water and sends it back to the tank. Aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants in water) becomes aquaponics when combined.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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The Concorde went on to serve various destinations, including some in the United States, flying at supersonic speeds only over water. The best-funded of this group is Denver-based Boom Technology (which also goes by the trade name Boom Supersonic). Boom has stated that its plane will go supersonic only over water.

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Audi announces A3 e-tron battery electric vehicle pilot program in US

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The A3 e-tron BEV pilot program will run in the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Denver markets throughout the year and provide actionable feedback and telematics data to Audi engineering teams in the US and Germany. In April 2011, Audi introduced a four-seat A3 e-tron concept plug-in hybrid vehicle in Shanghai.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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We would figure out things like: Do we need more lines between Denver and Chicago?” There was a steep trail that went up the side of a fjord, water coming down the opposite side. Kahn stayed at Bell Labs for about nine months; to his surprise, a graduate fellowship came through that he decided to accept.

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