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One Day, Two Kids, 600+ Miles: From Massachusetts to Virginia in an Electric Car

Green Energy Consumers

Here's a guest blog from our friend Nicole about her family's trip from Massachusetts to Virginia in a fully-electric car. This blog refers to the different types of charging and plugs. That's why we love featuring real stories from real people about their experience driving electric.

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Dept. of Interior to auction nearly 80,000 acres offshore Maryland for wind energy development

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To date, the DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded five commercial wind energy leases off the Atlantic coast: two non-competitive leases (Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts and an area off Delaware) and three competitive leases (two offshore Massachusetts-Rhode Island and another offshore Virginia).

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ARPA-E to award $27M for advanced nuclear reactor systems operational technology: GEMINA

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The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: High-Fidelity Digital Twins for BWRX-300 Critical Systems - $ 1,787,065.

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Tesla Tequila limited edition bottle, glass set sold out lightning fast

Teslarati

The Tesla Tequila limited edition set references the inside joke at least twice. Ever since Musk’s tweet, 420 has become an inside joke among people in the Tesla community — although many people might know of it by now. Incidentally, Tesla Tequila started out as an April Fool’s joke. . First, there’s the price.

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Tesla, Rivian endorse right-to-repair do business in protecting telematics knowledge

Baua Electric

The 2014 word of honour, which adopted Massachusetts’ automobile right-to-repair legislation in 2013, gave retail outlets in all states the similar get entry to to diagnostic and service knowledge.

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NIST: Blockchain provides security, traceability for smart manufacturing; digital thread

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Following our reference information model will enable users to authenticate everything within their blocks: where are the data coming from and going to, who is executing the data exchanges, when are the exchanges taking place, what is being exchanged, and how are the exchanges being conducted. —Sylvere Krima. Lockheed Martin Corp.,

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Technip and Sasol form a front-end engineering alliance for GTL facilities

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GTL offers a way to convert stranded gas into petroleum products that can be transported and sold using conventional tankers, pipelines, storage facilities and retail distribution systems.

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