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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment.” She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of Rivian's R1T

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Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of 38. But for proof, the R1T successfully completed the TransAmerica Trail, a roughly 5,000-mile gauntlet from North Carolina to the Oregon coast. Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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A single torus wheel is made of an elastic elongated coil spring in which the two ends of the coil connected each other and is driven by a piezoelectric actuator (stator) that can generate 2-degrees-of-freedom (axial and angular) motions. We propose a palm-sized omnidirectional mobile robot with two torus wheels. Paper ] Thanks, Ayato!

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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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North Carolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach North Carolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. heating and water purification. energy storage MIT and Boston College will develop phase change materials.

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