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AllCell Receives $460K Li-ion battery manufacturing grant Through Illinois Energy Plan

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Illinois-based Li-ion manufacturer AllCell Technologies, LLC received a $460,433 grant as part of the Illinois Energy Plan. AllCell plans to increase production capacity for lithium-ion batteries at the company’s manufacturing facility in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Earlier post.).

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OSU study: Low-income, black neighborhoods still hit hard by air pollution

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The six-state area analyzed in the Ohio State study, home to many aging and shuttered industrial plants, includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Ard, who is part of Ohio State’s Institute for Population Research, recently published a textbook chapter focusing on this work.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

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That’s why part of our mission at EVmatch is to make charging easy, reliable, and accessible to all. Since we started our work 4 years ago , we’ve made it easier to charge all over the country, including places typically considered to be “charging deserts” like parts of Texas, Michigan, and Illinois. Illinois is all in.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. Part of a continuing series looking at photographs of historical artifacts that embrace the boundless potential of technology. vonguard/Wikipedia. It could be.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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And part of the change involves extending the city’s EV-charging network. “We Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. Kok works with others in city government to compile data and create maps, dividing the city into neighborhoods.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. On camera, the man claimed he’d taken part in the violence and had firebombed a drugstore. Police later arrested a man named Edward Lee King on unrelated drug charges.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Earlier post.)

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