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GA county court will decide on temporary restraining order for halting work on Rivian site

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A county court in Georgia will decide Thursday whether or not to issue a temporary restraining order to stop all land disturbance activity at the site for Rivian. In 2021, Rivian chose a site just east of Atlanta, Georgia, as the location for its next production plant in the U.S.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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The full list of application development awards follows: Full Funding: Computing the Sky at Extreme Scales, Salman Habib (ANL) with LANL, LBNL. Cloud-Resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth's Water Cycle, Mark Taylor (SNL) with ANL, LANL, LLNL, ORNL, PNNL, UCI, CSU.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Click the link under each section to jump back up to the list of experts. Georgia Chalvatzaki. In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Assistant Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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DOE Selects 42 University-Led Nuclear Research and Development Projects for $38 Million in Funding

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Georgia Institute of Technology - $1,046,277. Light Water Reactor Sustainability (2 projects, $764,140). List of selected projects. Actual project funding will be established during contract negotiation phase. Idaho State University - $1,287,921. Johns Hopkins University - $1,183,239. The Ohio State University - $1,366,627.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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This project will develop a Protected Lithium Electrode , a solid electrolyte and a scaled up manufacturing process for high energy density lithium-air, lithium-water and lithium-sulfur batteries. The PolyPlus lithium-water battery has achieved the highest energy density ever recorded at 1,300 Wh/kg. System for Industrial Water Reuse.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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One need look no further for evidence than the list of the world’s richest people, which is topped (by a very wide margin, at press date) by an EV magnate. Of course, this has been the case with EVs for well over a decade now.