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RISE Robotics raises $3M in additional funding; electric linear actuation systems

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RISE Robotics, a leader in high-performance and cost-effective electric linear actuation solutions, raised $3 million in additional funding. The funding round was led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies. Energy Information Administration. —Reed Sturtevant.

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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During a summer break, she was chosen for an internship with a venture-capital company that funded high-tech startups. Tanghal went on to work for several tech-focused VCs before launching Black Opal in 2021. “My Her engineering background got her the position. One of Amadeus’s cofounders was Hermann Hauser.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system. 8 Rivers Capital. Georgia Institute of Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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2021's Top Stories About AI

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Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns : MIT's Neil Thompson and several of his collaborators captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. Constructing such facilities in underdeveloped countries would lower the cost of industrialization while speeding up processes. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The team’s control architecture will communicate with users via the app, providing suggestions for altering departure times, routes, and/or modes of transport to reduce energy consumption, without increasing the time or cost of the trip. TRANSNET Awards. Lead organization. Description.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech. clean-tech legislation. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., How did REPEAT come together?

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