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Blue Bird, Fulton Co. Schools join Audi, Applied Information on connected vehicle deployment to boost school bus and school zone safety

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—Trevor Rudderham, SVP, product planning, Blue Bird Corporation. Through this program, partners look to gain insights about the distance needed around school zones and buses to ensure the safety of children in a continuing effort to lessen accidents and fatalities.

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SRC launches Synthetic Biology Research on biomedical and minimal-power electronic devices for novel semiconductor applications

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Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, has launched the Semiconductor Synthetic Biology (SSB) research program on hybrid bio-semiconductor systems to provide insights and opportunities for future information and communication technologies.

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US DOE awards ~$5M to expand research on methane hydrates

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Selected projects are: Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) TEES, in conjunction with the Georgia Institute of Technology, will develop a numerical model to address the many complexities associated with production from hydrate-bearing sediments. DOE Investment: approximately $1.68

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

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vitriflex Inc., San Jose, Calif.

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $3.3

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Column: This isn’t a column concerning the auto display or UAW — sorry!

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You wish to have correct, related, insightful knowledge this is ethically accrued and in truth offered. utmost past in Georgia and Alabama, does now not have a unionized paintings power in North The united states. However on occasion publishing operations topic.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Georgia Power. Southern Company: Georgia Power. The partnership will also work to enhance workplace charging efforts at public power utilities, study the impacts of EVs in public power communities, and share insights regarding infrastructure installation and EV interaction with the modern grid. Southern Company: Georgia Power.

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