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DOE’s BETO holding four alternative fuel workshops over next three weeks

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The Demonstration and Deployment Strategy Workshop will be held 12–13 March at Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source conference center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The Algal Biofuels Strategy Workshop will be held 26–27 March in Charleston, South Carolina.

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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

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“For years, we prioritized the movement of the airplane through the factory over getting it done right, and that’s got to change,” Brian West, the company’s chief financial officer, said at an investor conference last week. Mr. Calhoun has also acknowledged that Boeing must improve but has defended the company’s approach to production.

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51% of BMW Group’s electricity worldwide from renewable sources; targeting 100%

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At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. At the Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a methane gas system provides around 50% of the energy required for production.

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USDA and DOE award $12.2M to 10 research projects to accelerate bioenergy crop production and spur economic impact

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The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Stephen Kresovich, University of South Carolina, Colombia.

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Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Sprout at Plug-in 2010

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In June, Plug In Carolina selected AeroVironment to supply, install and support a network of public electric vehicle stations in seven South Carolina cities. Among those exhibiting were: Aerovironment. Aerovironment’s home charging dock. Click to enlarge.

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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We have spent a lot of time going to conferences and workshops attended by farmers from the Mid-Atlantic region to provide out reach and education on the benefits of winter barley. OBE is working with Perdue’s (the third-largest poultry company in the US) agri business group to supply the plant’s grain requirements. “We

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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A Real-Time Demo of Load Coordination” shows how PEM coordinated the load from 208 residential water heaters in Vermont and South Carolina over a typical 2-hour period. Our projects have yielded some promising results. “A Nardelli et al.’s 7, 2019; and Giuseppe Graber et al.’s