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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE

Green Car Congress

The new prize was announced in Washington, DC by X PRIZE Chairman Peter H. Diamandis together with Wendy Schmidt, who personally funded the $1.4 The top team that demonstrates the ability to recover oil on the sea-water surface at the highest oil recovery rate (ORR) and recovery efficiency (RE) will win the $1 million Grand Purse.

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PlugStar program continues to grow, expand

Plug in America

In 2022, it is going to relaunch its LA program with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP). PlugStar is also getting dealers trained and certified in the Spokane area in Eastern Washington in partnership with Avista. PlugStar is hosting some virtual ride and drive events with potential in-person ones later this year.

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PlugStar program continues to grow in 2022

Plug in America

In 2022, it is going to relaunch its LA program with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP). PlugStar is also getting dealers trained and certified in the Spokane area in Eastern Washington in partnership with Avista. PlugStar is hosting some virtual ride and drive events with potential in-person ones later this year.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

Baua Electric

He flung his brush with quick strokes and played with the water, stretching it with rays of color. The Musée Marmottan , which owns “Impression, Sunrise,” has agreed to lend it to the Orsay until July for its exhibition “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism” and to the National Gallery in Washington where the exhibition travels in September.

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PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., PARC is developing a non-biological approach for producing liquid fuels from renewable energy, air, CO 2 and water. Click to enlarge.

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Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

We may well be as doomed as doomed can be already – as I frequently tell my friends that we are, and the “ Hell and High Water ” may already have arrived earlier then even Joe Romm’s dire predictions, but I’m not quite ready to cash in my chips and give up the ghost.

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