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  Some smaller centers are seeing tech growth as well. For example, Submittable, a Missoula, Mont.-based software company, recently raised $47 million in Series C Funding and now has 90 employees in town. Traditional industrial centers such as Detroit and Chicago are also benefiting from the spread of tech centers around the country. The Detroit-based automakers are investing billions of dollars in new technologies that will guide the path to electric vehicles, and Chicago pulled in $7 billion in venture capital funding last year. The renaissance of America through technology is a welcome sign on many levels. Among these is that the United States is more likely to be successful in its technology competition with China if it has the whole country pulling in the same direction.

  If this technology finds an application in power generation , we may owe the hypersonic weapons a big 'thank you,'" he said.  Conventional combustion systems cannot produce ionized fluids quickly enough to generate high-power electricity, necessitating large facilities with numerous mechanical components and regular maintenance. The MHD generator, on the other hand, can generate high-power electricity in a simple and compact system.