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ClearFlame Engine Technologies hits multiple manufacturing, customer pilot, and fueling milestones

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ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a company developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has hit a number of key milestones through multiple partnerships with customers, manufacturers, and fuel providers. Reviva has been providing quality remanufactured engines and engine components for more than 70 years.

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

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In a 2015 interview with the WGBH Forum Network , Dudley Foster , an engineer who worked on Alvin , described the previous submersibles as “blimps.” General Mills , in Minneapolis, secured the contract with a bid of US $498,500, according to the Eos article. During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C.,

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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Tesla’s investor day on 1 March began with a rambling, detailed discourse on energy and the environment before transitioning into a series of mostly predictable announcements and boasts. All these new nanoscale-engineering capabilities have allowed us create materials that would have been impossible to make 20 years ago,” he says.

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DOE, USDA awarding $12.6M to 10 biomass genomics research projects for improved biofuels

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Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 2014 Biomass Genomics Resarch projects. This research will inform feedstock breeding programs and enhance the sustainability of feedstock production. DOE-BER funded. Todd Mockler, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include Allonia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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The results of our analysis suggest that continued dissemination of hybrid-electric engine technology would significantly offset the growth in vehicle emissions above base year levels independent of land use change. Stone et al. Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. It’s amazing that people paid attention and listened to me.”

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