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CAAFI R&D team releases critical challenges position paper and white papers for alternative jet fuel industry

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The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) R&D team released its current position paper on critical R&D challenges facing the alternative jet fuel industry, highlighting near-, mid-, and long-term priorities. The Position Paper is supported by a series of white papers describing the path forward on these key topics.

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NPS paper concludes commercially scalable technology exists for sensors to enable zero roadway deaths

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Neural Propulsion Systems ( NPS ), a developer of autonomous sensing platforms, issued a white paper that concludes that new innovations enable vehicles with or without human supervision to see soon enough, clear enough and far enough to eliminate roadway deaths. fast changing environments). —NPS white paper.

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NSF Awards RAPID Response Grant to Modular Genetics and University Collaborators to Develop Bio-Dispersants for Oil Spill Clean-Up

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and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. In the paper, BIO cites Dr. P.

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Competition Spurs Robotics and AI Innovations for Maritime Challenges

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The MBZIRC had two previous iterations that were organized by Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. And the maritime environment actually lends itself really well to those kinds of applications.” And the maritime environment actually lends itself really well to those kinds of applications.” —Dr. There's a white-paper phase.

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Steel LCA study: lightweighting with advanced high-strength steel produces lower GHG emissions than with aluminum

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If material production phase emissions continue to be overlooked, negative effects on the environment will begin before the vehicle is ever driven. Steel offers the best solution for the environment, the best performance and cost effective solution for automakers, and ultimately the best value for consumers. million US homes.

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Single-Chip Processors Have Reached Their Limits

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Universal Chiplet Interconnection Express hopes to bring the industry together. UCIe also supports off-package connection through PCIe and CXL, opening up the potential for connecting multiple chips across multiple machines in a high-performance compute environment. An example of UCIe packaging options from the UCIe white paper.

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Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

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To do this we need a larger scale in the future as well as finer granularity, or more detail, to make those virtual objects and environments more realistic. Let’s say the ultimate goal for the metaverse is to be able to create virtual universes that are indistinguishable from a real physical universe.