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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Enovix Corporation. Exelon Corporation. Slashing Platinum Group Metals Content in Catalytic Converters: An Atoms-to-Autos Approach. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec Corporation). Utah State University. West Virginia University Research Corporation. Group14 Technologies Inc.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. Chemical Engineering’s Thomas Jaramillo is experimenting with electrochemically converting natural gas into higher-value products, like methanol.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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The project will develop a new device called the Galloping Hydrokinetic Energy Extraction Device that will convert fast-moving river currents into an oscillating motion that will drive a dielectric elastomer generator (DEG). Pueblo, Colorado) will design, construct and test a laboratory-scale model of the Cycloidal Wave Energy Converter.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Delaware Transit Corporation. Delaware Transit Corporation will receive funding to purchase Proterra 35' Catalyst E2 battery electric Buses, serving Wilmington and Sussex County. Project partners are Oahu Transit Services, Gillig, Hawaiian Electric Company and the Center for Transportation and the Environment. 54,992,016.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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So the broad vision for computing’s future was well in place when, at the close of the 1960s, Xerox decided to create a new corporate R&D laboratory. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment. Naturally enough, these ARPA contractors became leaders in U.S.

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DOE to award up to $11.3M to advance innovative geothermal energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight projects in five states—California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah—to receive up to $11.3 If selected for Phase II, projects will then validate the designs in real-world environments. Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California), up to $200,000.

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