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Volvo teams with Starbucks to install EV charging network at U.S. locations

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The charging stations, powered by ChargePoint, will be installed at up to 15 stores along a 1,350-miles corridor from Seattle to Denver. Volvo Cars wants to give people the freedom to move and lower their impact on the environment ,” Anders Gustafsson, Sr. Vice President Americas and President and CEO for Volvo USA, said.

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Commercial Space Stations Approach Launch Phase

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This involved inflating, to the point of failure, the woven fabric pressure shell—including Vectran , a fabric that becomes rigid and stronger than steel when pressurized on orbit—for its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat. Such initiatives could face politically-constructed hurdles, however.

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Renewable oils company Solazyme enters oil & gas drilling market with Encapso lubricant

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As long as the oil and gas industry continues to extract fossil fuels, we at Solazyme view it as an imperative that it is done in a more sustainable way to protect the environment for generations to come. The drilling industry needs new high-performance and sustainable technologies to meet rising energy demand and increased drilling.

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

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Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. Madison, Wis.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Developing an Energy-Conscious Traffic Signal Control System for Optimized Fuel Consumption in Connect Vehicle Environments. Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition. Delivering Clean Air in Denver: Propane Trucks and Infrastructure in Mail Delivery Application. Roush Industries. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. She earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial systems engineering in 2015 and a master’s in engineering with a concentration in mechatronics in 2017.

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NIST Opens Hydrogen Infrastructure Test Facility

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In it are placed standard test specimens of component materials—chunks of pipeline or a piece of a valve—and exposed to pressurized hydrogen to measure how it reacts to such an environment and that kind of chemical exposure.

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