“This line further fulfills our desire of offering the best tasting ice cream that just happens to be vegan, and now cashew allergen-friendly,” Van Leeuwen CEO Ben Van Leeuwen said. ow.ly/mcxf50xXmkP

Batteries take off in 2019: Not only did the inventors of the lithium-ion battery win the Nobel Prize, but in the first quarter of this year, nearly 150 megawatts of batteries were deployed, a 232 percent increase over Q1 2018. ow.ly/zoal50xXgqQ

According to Lloyd's, about 700 nuclear reactors have been used at sea since the 1950s, & there are about 200 reactors at sea today. Most are submarines & all use highly-enriched uranium as fuel, allowing them to stay underwater for longer periods. ow.ly/Bquu50xXlfl

“Kroger is driving the growth of the plant-based category through our Simple Truth brand, valued supplier partnerships & industry-leading fresh merchandising strategies,” said Joe Grieshaber, senior vice president of merchandising at Kroger, ow.ly/hcsJ50xXlJE

Joe Grieshaber, senior vp of merchandising said “Kroger is excited to launch 50 additional Simple Truth plant-based products this year, expanding the selection we offer to our customers & growing our Simple Truth brand.” ow.ly/TBdF50xXlSZ

Currently, the ice cream brand’s vegan, cashew-free line of oat milk ice cream is available in its 21 scoop shops throughout NYC & LA. Come January 2020, Van Leeuwen's pints will begin to be sold at more than 800 retailers across the country. ow.ly/JneZ50xXmnu

The startup aims to improve upon existing delivery systems for drugs that target RNA, which could allow the medicines to be more widely circulated and more easily penetrate tissues and organs. ow.ly/HATf50xXmyi

The U.S. Navy has been operating and perfecting SMRs for 75 years. In 1955, the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, put to sea. By 1962, the U.S. Navy had 26 operational nuclear-powered submarines with 30 more under construction. ow.ly/J74J50xXlqN

The dry definition of "Sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects that are linked through wired and wireless networks" doesn't quite capture the potential of IoT. ow.ly/WmNQ50xXnt9

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Solar and Batteries start to replace gas plants: The local utility in Glendale, California backed off a proposed $500 million gas plant and instead proposed using batteries. ow.ly/947n50xXgAr

Google & Nevada utility NV Energy have joined up on an energy supply agreement to power an under-construction data center outside Las Vegas, with capacity that rivals the largest corporate solar power-purchase agreement announced to date in the U.S. ow.ly/qInA50xXkfJ?

For such instances in which we need to create a complete loop & control an asset, work offline, or can only afford very low latency, Edge Computing devices come into play. Such devices go beyond being simple data sensing, collecting, & sending mechanisms. forbes.com/sites/hodfleis…

Under Germany's “energy transition” plan, the country aims to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources over the coming decades. The government agreed earlier this year to stop producing electricity from coal-fired plants by 2038 at the latest. ow.ly/OIo550xXoG9

Now we understand this world of connected assets a bit differently. The ability to capture & send the data is moving from being a novelty to being commoditized. Today IoT's significant benefit is the data, not the sensors. ow.ly/C0Tu50xXnU9

“Corporations have long used wind or solar to go ‘100 percent green,’ but there is a new effort to actually time-match consumption rather than just buying an offsetting amount of kilowatt-hours,” said Finn-Foley. ow.ly/O5ld50xXks1?

By using sensors, cloud services, & edge computing, & by understanding the context in which these assets operate, we can shift the responsibility of decision making involved in operating these assets from people to machines. ow.ly/s16S50xXoA7

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