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Werner piloting Aurora’s autonomous trucks on 600-mile route in Texas

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Starting this week, Aurora Driver-powered trucks are hauling loads between Fort Worth and El Paso on behalf of Werner. trucking industry: Atlanta to Los Angeles. Introducing an autonomous route between Fort Worth and El Paso allows Werner to move freight seamlessly and reliably on a subset of one of its most voluminous lanes.

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NIST awards nearly $4M to support metals-based additive manufacturing

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University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million). Academic, government and industrial partners will replicate the artifact and collect data on the key inputs to the process and the resulting properties of the artifact for a data repository. Northeastern University ($999,464).

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Record $86B in 2011 US oil and gas upstream deals, led by unconventional sector with $62B

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a provider of information, marketing and advisory services for the oil and gas industry. Industry appetite for oil-rich resource plays, particularly the North Dakota Bakken shale, Texas Eagle Ford shale and Ohio Utica shale, drove deal activity in the unconventional sector to a record $62 billion. In its analysis, PLS allocated $7.2

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Texas Mineral Resources to establish lithium subsidiary to market Round Top lithium

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TMRC), an exploration company targeting the heavy rare earths and a variety of other high-value elements and industrial minerals, in response to lithium industry inquiries, plans to establish a separate lithium subsidiary to market the lithium potentially produced from its poly-metallic Round Top long-life deposit. extraction rate.

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Embark, Frigidaire, and Ryder partner to pilot Level 2 automated driving technology for Class 8 trucks

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The pilot focused on highway driving, which is more structured, allows for faster commercialization, and also solves a critical challenge for the freight industry. More than 50 percent of all drivers will retire in the next two decades and there aren’t nearly enough young drivers joining the industry to replace them.

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Researchers suggest that air quality tests need simplifying to help reduce dangerous emissions

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The production of air pollution from motor vehicles, industrial power plants, and fossil fuel emissions are determined by complex chemical reactions.

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BP Biofuels, Texas AgriLife Research partner to advance cellulosic biofuel feedstock development

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Developing new varieties of energy grass is essential to commercializing a cellulosic biofuels industry that will enhance domestic energy security, create jobs for Americans and improve rural economies. Working with Texas AgriLife Research is an important step in the process of bringing clean transport fuels to scale and to market.

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