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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 ore is then mixed with water to form a slurry for processing in the HPAL circuit. Alloy flakes with MP Materials, which will establish the first North American processing site for alloy flakes.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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

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This results in a more compact and low-cost power electronic converter at the required power ratings used in commercial propulsion units. Brad and Fred Hunstable invented the HET while working to design a device capable of pumping clean water and providing power for small communities in underdeveloped regions of the world.

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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.