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Demand for Minerals Creates Challenges—Tech Can Help (Mon, 29 Nov 2021)
Lithium mining in Australia. (Image source: stock photo.) The world faces a conundrum as demand climbs for the minerals necessary to manufacture batteries. The expansion of a renewable energy infrastructure and electrification necessary to save the environment has as its main source of material an industry with a terrible environmental track record. A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the demand for minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel for renewable energy ...
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Bentley Education Expands Its Global Audience (Thu, 25 Nov 2021)
In October 2021, Bentley Systems began offering its software and digital resources to middle schools, high schools and institutes of higher education around the world. Opening the Bentley Education portal to new audiences will create a talent pipeline of young engineers focused on changing cities and systems like public utilities. Vinayak Trivedi, vice president and global head of Bentley Education. (Picture courtesy of Bentley Education.) “Before the pandemic, Bentley Education&rsq...
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Texas & Louisiana Construction News

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Wins $92M Contract for Houston Ship Channel Dredging (Tue, 23 Nov 2021)
The project will widen part of the channel from 530 ft to 700 ft and take dredged material to create an island bird habitat.
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Analysis Traces Mississippi River Bridge Beam Crack to Fabrication (Fri, 12 Nov 2021)
Arkansas DOT separately issued its own report detailing needed improvements for the agency's inspection program.
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Today in Energy

Average U.S. gasoline prices are higher this Thanksgiving than any since 2012 (Wed, 24 Nov 2021)
The average price that consumers paid at the pump for U.S. regular gasoline on the Monday before Thanksgiving this year was $3.40 per gallon (gal). This price is $1.29/gal (62%) higher than last year and is the highest pre-Thanksgiving price since 2012 (in nominal terms), according to our latest Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update. U.S. gasoline prices are 82 cents/gal (32%) higher than at the same time in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. October 2021 saw the largest recorded year-over-year increase in gasoline prices, at $1.13/gal, since we began collecting gasoline prices in 1990.
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Major U.S. utilities spending more on electricity delivery, less on power production (Tue, 23 Nov 2021)
Over the past decade, major utilities in the United States have been spending more on delivering electricity to customers and less on producing that electricity.
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Business

Tesla is testing 'humanoid' robots in Texas (Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:26:11 UT)
The robots will use the AI used by Tesla's self-driving vehicles. 
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Target will keep stores closed on Thanksgiving for good (Mon, 22 Nov 2021 12:36:16 UT)
Target will no longer open its stores on Thanksgiving Day, making permanent a shift to the unofficial start of the holiday season that was suspended during the pandemic.  
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