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Audi to demonstrate automated driving technology in Florida

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Audi will be the first to test its automated driving technology on the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway in Tampa, Florida—which recently was designated as an automated driving and connected car test bed—using an Audi A7 equipped to handle piloted driving functions on freeway conditions up to 40 mph (64 km/h).

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DOE, RTI to Design and Build Coal Syngas Cleanup System for IGCC Power Plants to Reduce Cost of Removing Contaminants, Capturing CO2; Potential for Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels

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RTI’s syngas cleanup technologies will be tested at Tampa Electric Company’s 250-MW IGCC power plant, using up to 20% of the syngas produced by the coal gasifier. Status of RTI/Eastman Warm Gas Clean-up Technology and Commercialization Plan (Gasification Technologies Conference, 2008).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. Florida, Tampa). Developing Tobacco as a Platform for Foliar Synthesis of High-Density Liquid Biofuels The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its team will. develop tobacco plants with leaves that contain fuel. The team will engineer tobacco with traits. The tobacco will be.

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