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Elon Musk’s Boring Company submits plans for 6.2-mile Loop system in Miami

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As per a recent report, The Boring Company has submitted a proposal to build the North Miami Beach Loop, a 6.2-mile mile transport tunnel system in Miami, FL. When scaled, the North Miami Beach Loop could be scaled to accomodate over 15,000 commuters per hour. mile link to the Florida International University Biscayne Campus.

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British Airways challenges UK universities to develop a new generation of sustainable aviation fuel; part of $400M investment from parent

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As British Airways looks towards its Centenary next year, the airline, in collaboration with Cranfield University, has challenged academics from across the UK to develop a sustainable alternative fuel which could power a commercial aircraft on a long-haul flight, carrying up to 300 customers with zero net emissions.

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$112.5M awarded to research consortia studying effects of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf of Mexico

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The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Institution: University of South Florida.

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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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Credit: The University of Hong Kong. The largest greening BUAs are Pearl River Delta (PRD), Tokyo, Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Miami, Beijing, Chicago, Seoul, Tianjin, São Paulo, and Osaka. By 2050, the global population is expected to soar to 9.7 billion, with 68% of the population living in urban areas.

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Tesla makes its newest cut: Interns

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” The Miami University student who first spoke to the publication about losing their internship said that he had already spent “thousands” of dollars getting housing together for the Summer. According to Glassdoor, a site that acts like Yelp for workers, summer interns at Tesla make between $18 and $28 an hour.

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Flying first class on a single domestic round trip can contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than a year of driving

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airline (San Francisco to Santa Rosa); the longest flight within the continental United States (Seattle to Miami); and the longest flight in the world (New York to Singapore). Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif. University of Miami Rosenstiel School , Miami, Fla. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas. University of Wyoming , Laramie, Wyo.

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