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Video Friday: No Time to Dance

Cars That Think

MIT ] The Sechseläuten ("the six o'clock ringing of the bells") is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich, and this year, it had a slightly less traditional guest: ANYmal! Hatton from Oregon State, on "Snakes & Spiders, Robots & Geometry." [ CMU RI ]. Registration for the conference is free and now open.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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I engaged in integrated resource planning for the two investor-owned utilities in Oregon—PGE and Pacific Power. And Oregon is pretty transparent. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation. But those models were entirely proprietary.

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ARPA-E selects 33 projects for $66M in awards; advanced biocatalysts for gas-to-liquids and lightweight metals

Green Car Congress

While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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