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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. Re-Mining Red Mud Waste for CO 2 Capture and Storage and Critical Element Recovery (RMCCS-CER) ($1,000,000). The carbonation reaction will convert REE-bearing silicate minerals to REE-bearing carbonate minerals.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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e-Golf customers can drive the vehicle confidently, knowing Volkswagen is addressing the vehicle’s environmental impacts through many stages of its lifecycle from production, distribution and charging. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Dramatically increase our fundamental knowledge of the physical structure of biopolymers in plant cell walls to provide a basis for improved methods for converting biomass into fuels. Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency Through Molecule- Scale Control. $16. University of Texas, Austin. Purdue University. Center for Excitonics.

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Here’s why the tiny Fiat 500e is a big litmus test for the US EV market

Baua Electric

I think there’s a massive portion of these vehicles that will be sold to individuals…who have the ability to have an L2 in their garage and will charge it there and use it for those daily tasks.” We’re really proud of that.” I don’t expect all of these cars to be sold in the city,” he underscored. “I

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. Police later arrested a man named Edward Lee King on unrelated drug charges. The courts have yet to decide.