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Energy Innovation: Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum

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Babcock Ranch is a sprawling master planned community on 18,000 acres on Florida’s West Coast, some 20 miles from Fort Myers, which prides itself on being “America’s first all-solar town.” Photo: courtesy Denver Housing Authority/Mike Laughlin Photographer. Photo: courtesy Denver Housing Authority/Mike Laughlin Photographer.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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DMDII is one of nine institutes within the Manufacturing USA network, with six more planned by the end of 2017. GE will be helping to plan and craft the future of the industrial Internet in Providence, and that will have very positive effects on our own economic future.”. Last year, Chicago’s thriving startups secured more than $1.7

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Margaret Whelan on How Capital Is Fueling Innovation

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For example, Oakwood Homes, in Denver, already had its own turnkey factory. They build each house twice, the first time in 3D, to iron out the kinks, rationalize the plans, and reduce waste from the process. MW: The folks [Clayton Homes] bought, for the most part, were more innovative than their peers. On the flip side, U.S.

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Margaret Whelan on How Capital is Fueling Innovation

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For example, Oakwood Homes, in Denver, already had its own turnkey factory. They build each house twice, the first time in 3D, to iron out the kinks, rationalize the plans, and reduce waste from the process. MW: The folks [Clayton Homes] bought, for the most part, were more innovative than their peers.

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Flying Without Altitude

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PIT sits on 12,900 acres (making it the fourth-largest airport by land in the nation, behind only Denver International Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Orlando International Airport) and has the longest commercial aircraft runways in Pennsylvania at 11,500 feet.