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GM makes its largest green energy purchase to date; 50 MW wind deal

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General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its US facilities, including business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River.

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Rivian’s 2nd plant most likely to land in Georgia, stock responds

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Fort Worth, Texas was seemingly the front runner for the facility after the City’s Economic Development Department gave a presentation to City Council members that showed economic advantages to welcoming Rivian to the area. Additionally, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has made it a priority to expand the EV industry in the State.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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As part of a program to develop the needed flight rules and communications systems, we are leading a consortium of a dozen companies and universities, called the North Texas Cohort , that is operating an experimental air corridor north of Dallas, Texas. Nothing like this has ever been attempted on a large scale. government agencies.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. The project in Nepal was supported by funds Kiani raised through the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

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CleanFUEL USA and Ferrellgas Working Together on Propane Refueling Network in US

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million as Part of the Clean Start initiative to construct the nation’s first and largest propane refueling network. Dallas-Fort Worth is the first metro area CleanFUEL USA and Ferrellgas are jointly targeting to develop 8-10 propane refueling stations. The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded CleanFUEL USA $12.9

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation

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Permanent magnet motors are dominant in the EV industry, due to their superior efficiency. What’s more, the company is developing a facility in Fort Worth, Texas where it plans to manufacture alloys and magnets from Mountain Pass materials. The majority of EV traction motors use rare earth magnets. And it has customers.

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