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GM and Glencore enter multi-year cobalt supply agreement

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The company will then expand into magnet manufacturing around 2025 at its new production facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The mixed nickel and cobalt sulfide enters another autoclave where pure oxygen converts the solids from a mixed sulfide into a metal sulfate solution.

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UT Arlington licenses technology for portable, modular GTL conversion units; targeting stranded gas

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The University of Texas at Arlington has licensed technology for converting natural gas to synthetic liquid fuels (GTL) in portable units at a cost lower than current market rates to 1 st Resource Group Inc. of Fort Worth for commercialization. 1 st Resource has partnered with UMED Holdings Inc. ,

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Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

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The funding will be used to market the company’s electric motor—the Hunstable Electric Turbine (HET)—across the electric vehicle (EV) industry as well as the micro-mobility (scooters), robotics, wind turbine and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industries. —Brad Hunstable, CEO of Linear Labs.

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Edeniq and Flint Hills Resources Renewables establish joint development relationship for ethanol

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Edeniq’s Cellunator enables plants to mill corn and other plant materials into small, uniform pieces of feedstock that can be converted into sugars needed to produce biofuels. This collaboration with Flint Hills Resources Renewables demonstrates our mission of accelerating low-cost cellulosic ethanol to market.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In A multiplexer processed this data, and an analog-to-digital converter changed it to a pulse-code modulated signal. In the false-color image, shown at top, reds are vegetation and grays and whites are urban or rocky land.)

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Wallbox enters first phase of build-out for US EV charger plant; 500k units/year by 2025

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The facility will begin with production lines for Wallbox’s Pulsar Plus AC chargers, its powerful best-selling home charger that can charge any electric car on the market, including Teslas with a converter. The Arlington facility is Wallbox’s fourth manufacturing site, additive to two facilities in Europe and one in China.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. The project will deploy refueling stations and alternative fuel vehicles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Total DOE award: $14,994,183.