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First Mode opens a clean-tech factory that capitalizes on some extra high-tech twists

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Jay Inslee to the right and Albert Gore, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, to the left. Display screens that have been hung above the shop floor track the flow of hardware through the production line, and flag bottlenecks as they arise. Even the wrenches have gone digital.

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New Frontier Aerospace aims to zoom from hypersonic flight’s past into its future

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. “We’re proposing to combine the hypersonic research of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and some of those geometries, with reusable rockets to attack the trillion-dollar air transportation market instead of the $11 billion space launch market.” The company has been awarded $2.25

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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

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Clean tech startups can be slower moving as their innovations often include hardware and their prototype process can take longer, particularly if it involves biological or chemical processes. This summer, the accelerator accepted 10 early-stage companies in the latest round of the program.

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Self-driving startup Aurora will raise $2 billion in SPAC merger

The Verge

Self-driving technology startup Aurora, which was founded by the former head of Google’s autonomous vehicle program, is the latest company to announce that it’s going public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (or SPAC). Lucid Motors will pull in an astonishing $4.4 billion when it goes public soon after.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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Hichert also conducts workshops on topics such as the future of transport and the future of migration, and she has trained the Joint Command of the South African National Defence Force on applying complexity thinking to decision-making. Cheryl Chung is a Lead Strategist in the Futures Division of Singapore’s Ministry of Transport.

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