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Albemarle to invest $1.3B in lithium hydroxide facility in South Carolina

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Albemarle Corporation plans to locate its previously announced lithium hydroxide Mega-Flex facility in Chester County, South Carolina. The term Mega-Flex refers to the facility’s ability to process diverse lithium feedstock, including lithium from recycled batteries. Earlier post.)

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

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The Tesla Tequila limited edition set references the inside joke at least twice. The lightning bottle and glass set were sold for $420, recalling the infamous words Elon Musk tweeted a few years ago. In August 2018, Musk tweeted that he was thinking of taking Tesla private at $420. First, there’s the price.

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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

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Some of the concerns echoed accusations of quality lapses by several whistle-blowers at Boeing’s South Carolina factory who spoke to The Times in 2019. Several current and former employees in South Carolina and in Washington State said mechanics building planes were allowed in some instances to sign off on their own work.

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Zapping the Brain and Nerves Could Treat Long COVID

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Neurostimulation refers to electrical stimulation of the brain or peripheral nerves with either implanted or external devices; it's part of a growing field that's sometimes called bioelectronic medicine or electroceuticals. “We need to do so much work to understand what long COVID is,” Charvet says. Researchers Step Up.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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My University of South Carolina colleague James Risk grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, a small town southwest of Indianapolis. To this day, references to Frogger inevitably surface whenever I make ill-timed attempts at jaywalking in the city. Pong is an inherently social game.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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includes Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, will provide first. use; produce a technical reference manual for utilities and policy makers to. . $1,000,000. Center for. Transportation and. the Environment. The Southeast Regional Alternative Fuels Market Initiatives Program, which. 500,000.

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DOE awarding $6M to 11 projects to accelerate alternative fuel vehicle market growth

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The Southeast AFV Demonstration Initiative (SADI) will carry out a multi-fuel, multi- state vehicle demonstration program complete with vehicles, driver education and marketing strategies to help incorporate alternative fuels into new fleets and industry sectors in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.