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Tribal company and Oregon battery startup create unique partnership in pursuit of clean energy

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Puyallup Tribe of Indians Photo / Hailey Palmer) A startup developing long-duration batteries is teaming up with a Pacific Northwest tribe to build innovative energy storage devices. Brown and Gantner both hold doctorate degrees in astrophysics, meeting as graduate students at the University of Colorado.

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How Computer Vision is Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain

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When are there spikes in consumer demand and how much more of a product will be needed to meet that demand? An increase in production is required to make up for off-spec products to meet the product demand plan. The same principle applies to chemical usage, where optimized usage also means less over- and under-dosing.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

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The company gave itself four years to invest $1 billion and has allocated $564 million so far — which means it needs to write checks totaling $463 million by January 2024 to meet that deadline. The two companies both backed Canada’s CarbonCure , a startup that removes carbon from the atmosphere and chemically traps it in concrete.

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

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Active in 69 countries, Eni works across the value chain—from natural gas and oil to electric and renewable energy generation, traditional and bio-refining and chemicals. As the energy industry continues to meet high demand for oil and gas, exploration must move to more remote areas including those deeper under the surface of the earth.

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Meet Nala, the police dog that sniffs out electronic devices to fight internet crimes against children

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Nala, a Seattle Police Department K9 that specializes in electronic storage detection, can sniff out everything from smart phones to hard drives to micro SD cards as part of her work combatting child sexual exploitation. Daljit Gill and Nala, the electronic storage detection K9 that she has been working with for two years.

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Workplace Health and Safety Training – Employer Responsibilities

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Catastrophic weather conditions like storm and hurricane, a fire break-out or a chemical spill can happen without any warning. To deal with such situations, basic disaster management training must be given to the employees so that they are aware of the shelter and meeting/refuge areas, and evacuation routes.

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This Spokane startup catches carbon dioxide at the source, before it escapes to the environment

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CarbonQuest Photo) “Distributed, smaller consumers is something that we haven’t thought about very much,” said Grigorios Panagakos , a chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University who researches carbon management. Grigorios Panagakos, assistant research professor in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.