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Georgia to See 3,000+ Jobs from Build Back Better Act

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ATLANTA, GA — A new NRDC analysis shows that the Build Back Better Act, as it currently stands, has the potential to significantly accelerate clean energy investment, economic activity, and job growth in Georgia.

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Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

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billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. The project is scheduled to be the first US nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades. and Alabama Power’s Plant Farley nuclear facility near Dothan, Ala.

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Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021

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REEs are the building-blocks of a wide array of clean energy and advanced technologies, including wind turbines, electric vehicles, cell phones, computers, flat panel displays, advanced optics, catalysts, medicine, and national defense applications. The monazite sands will be from Chemours’ Offerman Mineral Sand Plant in Georgia.

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DOE awards $17M to FY 2014 SBIR Phase II projects; includes Si/graphene anodes, motor windings, exhaust treatments

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Vehicle technologies span a range from new Si/graphene Li-ion anode materials and composites for motor windings to diesel aftertreatment and advanced lubricants. Project partners include Georgia Institute of Technology and LG Chem Power Inc. Composite Coatings for Low-Cost Motor Windings in Electric Vehicles. nGimat LLC.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Gulf Coast Basin (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas): The University of Texas at Austin plans to quantify coal from mines and coal ash from power plant resources and refuse as feedstocks for rare earth elements and critical minerals within the US Gulf Coast Basin. DOE Funding: $1,499,999.

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Georgia Tech prototype triboelectric nanogenerator could extract energy from ocean waves

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an inexpensive and simple prototype of a triboelectric nanogenerator that could be used to produce energy from ocean waves by making use of contact electrification between a patterned plastic nanoarray and water. mA m -2 with a peak power density of nearly 0.13

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Tesla Cybertruck braves substantial rainfall and standing water amid massive storms

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According to a report from USA Today , more than 118,000 homes and businesses were without power from Texas to Georgia on Wednesday night. Winds of up to 80 MPH were also reported. At least one person in Mississippi passed away. New Orleans experienced between five and eight inches of rainfall during the storm.

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