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Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

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The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. The home will be designed to achieve top-level green building certifications from the major US rating systems. American Honda Motor Co., model home in San Marcos, Calif.,

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Rio Tinto Alma smelter site for first commercial demo of ELYSIS GHG-free aluminum smelting technology

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As part of its technology development and scale-up, ELYSIS will install industrial inert anode prototype cells at the end of an existing potline at the Alma smelter to demonstrate the technology’s effectiveness at a commercial scale in an industrial operating environment. Earlier post.).

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Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests

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Nestled at the foot of a steep, forested hill, 16 kilometers outside Wellington, New Zealand is a rather unassuming building; one among many on a research campus that was first established in the 1940s. The building is home to the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute , part of Victoria University of Wellington.

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Toshiba to partner with Kawasaki City on 5-year demo of independent energy supply system utilizing solar power and hydrogen

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Kawasaki City will supply the demonstration test environment, and Toshiba is responsible for the design, manufacture and maintenance of the equipment. The results obtained will be jointly utilized by Kawasaki City and Toshiba. Kawasaki Marien, a municipal facility to promote Kawasaki Port, is a designated emergency evacuation area.

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Volkswagen progressing with work on quantum computing, develops traffic management system for taxi companies

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Volkswagen sees considerable potential in using this cutting-edge computing technology for building new applications and business models within the company. D-Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment. Wave Leap Quantum Application Environment (QAE). In some cases, a solution is only possible using quantum computers.

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ADEME awarding €3.1M to Global Bioenergies and IBN-One plant project

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million in the form of repayable advances, following last July’s achievement of a technical and financial milestone in the ISOPROD project funded by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), which involves Global Bioenergies, Cristal Union and L’Oréal around the IBN-One first plant project. million and IBN-One €0.5

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California ARB awards $7M for ultra-low NOx heavy-duty diesel truck demo project with Achates opposed-piston engines

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The project will build and install diesel-fueled two-stroke compression-ignition Achates Power Opposed-Piston Engines into Class 8 demonstration trucks that will be road-road ready in 2019 and operate in fleet service in California in 2020.