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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

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Cutting-edge automation systems now monitor and control environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide levels, and nutrient delivery—ensuring optimal conditions that minimize waste. Farmers can make more informed decisions about managing crops, optimizing resource usage, and predicting yields.

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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The demonstration plant will produce NMC811 generating zero waste and 70% less greenhouse gases by using only 10% of the water and 30% of the energy versus traditional battery material production methods. The plant will be an expansion of its existing facility in St. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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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 program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project will deploy 554 alternative fuel and hybrid electric vehicles and install 153 alternative fueling and electric vehicle charging stations throughout the Chicago region. Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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Junkyard Find: 1972 Ford Econoline "BIG CHEESE"

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Perhaps it started out in St. Louis or Salt Lake City and moved to Colorado after its delivery days were over. A three-speed Cruise-O-Matic automatic was available as an option (but would have been seen as just wasted money by most cargo-van buyers in the early 1970s). Naturally, someone has installed tube headers on the engine.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If Pake, a longtime friend, to run it. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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