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South Dakota School of Mines & Technology vying to establish international center for solid-state batteries

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The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is vying to establish an international center to develop solid-state batteries which will be safer, cheaper, smaller and more efficient than lithium ion batteries. Each university received $15,000 of the planning grant.

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Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

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The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US.

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Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

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47 South Dakota 25.3 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. (The entries are on the same scale as in the table above.) Rank State Proportional amount of emissions relative to 100% hydro 1 West Virginia 163.9

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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Establish a consortium for sustained collaborations among university partners in South Dakota, Montana, and Oklahoma in the field of methane regulation in extreme environments. SURF is located in Lead, South Dakota at the former site of the Homestake Gold Mine.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,483,787. DOE Funding: $1,499,987. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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VG Energy and DAK Renewable Research to conduct field trials of LipidMax to boost corn oil yield

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DAK Renewable Research, headquartered in Brandon, South Dakota, brings agricultural innovations together with investors. DAK is providing twelve 2,000 ft 2 plots in South Dakota to measure the effect of LipidMax in corn oil production and test the robustness of LipidMax in field conditions. Together Dr. Newell and Dr.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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IEEE Foundation At the time of death, he was president and CEO of Dakota Power , a company in Rapid City, S.D., and received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1957 from Rutgers University there. He was accepted, and the academy sponsored his postgraduate studies at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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