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Researchers at the University of have developed an unusually rapid method to deliver cost-effective algal biocrude in large quantities using a specially-designed jet mixer. Technological and economic barriers to industrial scale up remain, with microorganisms (e.g., algae) harvesting ranking among the main challenges.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Technical and economic changes in the semiconductor industry threaten to stifle U.S. With Moore’s law and the scaling of transistors waning, the industry is turning to chip designs that don’t work for supercomputing used in massive simulations. But those easy days are over, says Kathy Yelick of the University of California at Berkeley.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

With so many of the items we interact with in our daily lives — from soaps and fertilizers to pharmaceuticals to petrochemicals — deriving from products of the chemical industry, the sector has become a major source of economic activity and employment for many nations, including the United States and China.

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MAY 17, 2023

As per recent comments from several industry veterans, Tesla’s advertising strategies moving forward — especially at this stage in the EV transition — could hold significant potential for the automaker. The post Industry veterans weigh in on Tesla advertising strategies and their potential appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Prototype testing of Sparc Hydrogen’s reactor in real world conditions is the culmination of more than 5 years of research and development work conducted by the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The achievement marks a new operational milestone for neutron scattering in the United States and opens the door to tackling more difficult questions and problems in materials science research. Besides SNS, ORNL is home to the High Flux Isotope Reactor. The SNS and HFIR are DOE Office of Science user facilities.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have mapped the annual flow of steel in the US, with the goal of achieving a detailed understanding of the flow to target increased material efficiency and the development of the circular economy. The steel industry accounts for 30% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. awarded him its prestigious Ho-Am Prize in 1993 for “building a solid foundation for Korea’s semiconductor industry.”

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APRIL 11, 2023

He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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APRIL 2, 2013

The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Sichuan University in China will establish a joint engineering program to educate undergraduate students and foster collaborative research. The Sichuan University Pittsburgh Institute, as it will be named, expects to enroll its first class in the fall of 2014.

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MAY 5, 2020

Texas A&M University (TAMU) engineering researchers have devised a simple, proliferation-resistant approach for separating out different components of nuclear waste. What is left behind is an assortment of radioactive elements, including unused fuel, that are disposed of as nuclear waste in the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

million in funding to eight university and industry projects to develop biomass feedstocks to produce affordable biofuels and bioproducts that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) awarded $18.6 4,551,944 . 4,551,944 . 4,551,944 . 4,551,944

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FluoRok, a spin-out of the University of Oxford developing a new method for the direct synthesis of high value fluorochemicals, announced £3 million (US$3.8 This solution reduces energy requirements, lowers CO 2 emissions and enables significant progress towards net-zero in the fluorochemical industry.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Tesla and BWH Hotels plan to start installing Universal Wall Connectors in 2024 at select hotels across North America. Earlier this year, Tesla partnered with Hilton to install up to 20,000 Universal Wall Connectors in 2,000 hotels across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the country and its latest move to dominate the "robotaxi" industry. China's self-driving vehicle market is moving faster than that of the United States thanks to government regulatory support. Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The program, EVeryone Charging Forward , was created in response to the rapid growth of the EV charging sector due to both public and private investment, resulting in significant demand for skilled workers across the industry. million new energy-related jobs could be created in the United States by 2030.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

and the University of Houston will work together to further understanding of the geology and composition of crude oil. This collaboration with a premier energy university reaffirms our commitment, as the market leader in instruments for this industry, to continue to develop new technologies and applications for our customers.

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MARCH 18, 2020

Applicants are highly encouraged to partner with universities and non-profit organizations located within federally designated Opportunity Zones and/or Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Industry partners must provide at least 20% of the funding for new projects. of the project funding. of the project funding.

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The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. BREAKERS projects include: Drexel University, Ultra-Efficient Intelligent MVDC Hybrid Circuit Breaker – $4,413,913.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Direct air capture systems and retrofits to existing industrial and power plant exhausts to capture carbon dioxide and use it to make alternative products or permanently sequester it deep underground.

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JUNE 9, 2023

With two out of three of the United States’ top legacy automakers supporting Tesla’s NACS, Electrify America’s position in the EV charging space is precarious at best. In comparison, Electrify America has 3,503 fast chargers and 116 Level 2 chargers in the United States.

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Stony Brook University and Tongji University have established a cooperative relationship for sharing technologies to promote the global use of biogas. Industrial partners include All Power Labs, a manufacturer of small-scale gasifiers, and Oberon Fuels, a developer of small-scale gas-to-dimethyl ether (DME) systems (earlier post).

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Ford has announced its new dealership training platform for the United States , noting that it will utilize artificial intelligence to better familiarize sales teams with product knowledge, corporate history, while likewise making them better at engaging with customers. But it has gradually been seeping into other industries.

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Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. The EPA estimates that 8.8

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Plug Power’s hydrogen fuel cell technology also provides reliable, resilient on-site backup power for businesses and institutions, whether data centers, utilities, retailers or universities.

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Nuro will design, develop, and operate all software and digital infrastructure from United States-based servers to ensure safety and privacy. These local job opportunities are careers with long-term growth potential in the autonomous vehicle industry. billion in economic impact during the first 10 years of operation.

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International energy company Statoil and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) have signed an Energy Partnership agreement providing the university with an annual funding of US$1 million for 5 years. However, the oil and gas industry is changing with more complex technological challenges.

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A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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General Motors, which has a long history of crash test dummy design, is leading current research on the potential for global auto industry use of a test dummy that would help automakers and safety experts better understand how crash victims are hurt in rear impacts. BioRid Final Report , Chalmers University, 1999.

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This investment will also spur demonstrations of large-scale hydrogen utilization at ports and data centers and across industrial sectors like steel making. Additionally, these efforts will help build a comprehensive training program that will lay the foundation for a robust hydrogen and fuel cells workforce in the United States.

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With operations in the United States, India and China, the company has expanded production capacity to more than 3 gigawatt hours (GWh) to meet the increasing demand for EVs as the market matures; the company plans to double this capacity in the next three to four years. After graduation from Stanford University with a Ph.D

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The strain of archaea used in Electrochaea’s P2G process has been adapted for industrial application by Prof. Laurens Mets at the University of Chicago. This hydrogen is then fed to a separate bioreactor containing the archaea along with carbon dioxide from a biogenic or industrial source.

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Bert Brunekreef at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and colleagues reported that exposure to PM 2.5 , BC, and NO 2 showed significant associations of air pollution exposure with natural-cause, cardiovascular, respiratory, and lung cancer mortality. particle composition.

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In an open-access report in the journal Environmental Pollution , researchers from UCLA and the University of Chicago estimate that California’s wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from 2020 (~127 mmt CO 2 e ) are approximately two times higher than California’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003.

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A team of researchers, led by Professor Gavin Shaddick at the University of Exeter, has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, half of the world’s population is exposed to increasing air pollution. Units for both are ?g/m Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter. a)Map of global PM 2.5

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Now, University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering researchers have developed a cheaper, safer, and simpler technology that will allow a “stubborn” group of metals and metal oxides to be made into thin films. —William Nunn, first author.

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