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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include InEnTec, Lululemon, and Waste Management.

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British Airways partners with Velocys on renewable jet fuel from household waste

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British Airways has entered a partnership with Velocys to design a series of waste plants that convert household waste into renewable jet fuel to power its fleet. As well as helping the airline industry reduce its carbon emissions this initiative will also significantly reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

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DOE awards $3.6M to High Performance Computing projects in manufacturing, materials and mobility

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Knoxville, TN) will partner with ORNL to improve predicting layer temperature profiles to reduce print time and waste and optimize large-scale additive manufacturing process and reduce its energy cost. Praxair Inc., a member of the Linde group - Praxair, Inc. HPC for Mobility.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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Now we have a test flight program through two flight prototypes in two countries, the US and the UK, which is actually quite significant because the regulatory environments are very different, so we had to go through both countries’ regulatory environments to get things done. In those environments, batteries work pretty well.

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World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future

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A humans well-being and socioeconomic progress are deeply connected to the environment. Peoples livelihoods, businesses, industries, and biodiversity depend on a stable and healthy environment. It contributes to a sustainable environment in several ways: Digital transformation. Circular economy and waste management.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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In addition, the newly announced manufacturing innovation institute topics now under competition include: Robotics in Manufacturing Environments Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Next Flex, the Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (San Jose, CA). Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (Cambridge, MA).

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. But this wastes 2 kilobytes of RAM. ?“A That was an obvious part of the Commodore philosophy; you don’t waste money on things that make the product more expensive and that the majority of buyers aren’t going to use.” It’s only sand.”

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