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Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Robert Ricci, a research assistant professor of computer science at the University of Utah and principal investigator of CloudLab.

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Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Mazda, Volvo and home dealerships promote

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The area is referred to as the “Four Corners,” the place Unused Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah meet. “The market of the new store also has a lot of potential. “The market is close to our headquarters and easy for us to get to,” mentioned Webb II, a 2019 Car Information 40 Beneath 40 honoree.

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ARPA-E awards $38M to 12 projects leading used nuclear fuel recycling initiative

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While used nuclear fuel, sometimes referred to as spent nuclear fuel, is created during the process of generating nuclear energy, clean energy generated from this fuel would be enough to power more than 70 million homes. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft. One of our partners we work with, we can deliver over 80 percent of what they have in their big box store. And this basically looks like a small airplane, right?

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2022—The Year the Hydrogen Economy Launched?

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A massive substation at the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant in Utah links the facility to transmission lines that deliver power to southern California. These would be facilities where low-carbon hydrogen would be produced, stored, used, and transported elsewhere. “In Around that time, site preparation is expected to begin on a $2.65-billion

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