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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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“We felt that we could develop the analytics models to give them that insight,” Klein says. “Of He says the project was an analytics problem of capturing information and data, understanding it, drawing insights, and then making intelligent decisions—and being able to do it at a scale large enough to handle the whole farm.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. San Jose, Calif.

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Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome

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The new maize sequence was produced by a consortium of researchers that was led by the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at Washington University in St. and included the University of Arizona, Iowa State University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The accurate and reliable data collected from the use of these vehicles will provide NYSERDA and DOE insight on how these alternative technologies operate in diverse conditions. Louis, San Antonio/Austin, and Oklahoma City as well as a refueling corridor along I-10 in Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles).

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Provide the scientific insights and design principles needed to realize a new generation of powerful and long lasting batteries based on nanostructures. Washington University, St. Design materials for efficient direct heat-to electricity energy conversion technologies. University of Maryland, College Park. University of Minnesota.

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