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

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Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Raleigh, N.C. National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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HR Biopetroleum changes name to Cellana

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Barry Raleigh, Ph.D., In 2007, HRBP and Royal Dutch Shell PLC formed Cellana as a separate joint venture to build and operate a six-acre demonstration facility to grow marine algae and produce vegetable oil for conversion into biofuel. Algae-based biofuels and bioproducts company HR BioPetroleum, Inc. HR BioPetroleum, now Cellana, Inc.,

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Enterprise Holdings North American Rental Car Shuttle Bus Fleet to Use B5 or B20

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Enterprise Holdings expects to complete the conversion to all B5 by spring of this year, with at least 50% converted to B20 by the end of next year.

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RMI Launches Project Get Ready to Help Communities Prepare for Plug-ins

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Community members in Portland, Oregon; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Raleigh, North Carolina soon expanding to the Triangle region have already agreed to work with RMI’s Project Get Ready. Corporate/city/state fleets commit to buy a certain number of plug-ins (RFPs for major purchases or conversions). Laura Schewel, project manager.

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President Obama announces new $140M public-private manufacturing innovation institute focused on power electronics

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In electronic devices, WBG semiconductors can eliminate up to 90% of the power losses that currently occur during AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC electricity conversion, and they can handle voltages more than 10 times higher than Si-based devices, greatly enhancing performance in high-power applications.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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Today the IEEE Life Fellow is CTO of Pryon , a startup in Raleigh, N.C., He was a pioneer in the field of acoustics and provided the technical foundation for speech recognition, teleconferencing, MP3 music files, and the efficient digital transmission of human conversation. "I CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH.

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BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs

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In February, the company officially launched its new BoostEV platform in select cities—it’s now available in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, Raleigh, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco and Santa Cruz. We want to start that conversation.