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The milestone vehicle, deployed in Chicago, uses compressed natural gas technology (CNG), and is one of 165 AFVs deployed by AT&T in Illinois. In Illinois AT&T operates 84 hybrid-electric vehicles and 81 CNGs. Through 2013, AT&T anticipates it will purchase approximately 8,000 CNG vehicles at an anticipated cost of $350 million.

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In response to a shift in consumer demand toward SUVs and trucks, the Company discontinued compact car production and retooled plants in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan to make full use of available capacity to expand the Jeep and Ram brands. manufacturing operations, creating nearly 30,000 new jobs since June 2009. billion in its U.S.

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intends to join the FutureGen Alliance, a public-private partnership established to build a first-of-its-kind coal-fired, near-zero emissions power plant in Mattoon, Illinois. Caterpillar Inc. The FutureGen plant is a 275-megawatt integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant. It will be capable of powering about 150,000 homes.

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Founded in 2009 by RJ Scaringe, Rivian develops and produces vehicles, products and services related to sustainable transportation. The company has facilities in Plymouth, Michigan, San Jose, California, Irvine, California, and Normal, Illinois. Rivian is now accepting preorders for a refundable deposit of $1,000. The company’s 2.6-million-square-foot

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MAY 21, 2011

In a paper in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining , Professor John Regalbuto, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes what he calls “ a real sea change ” in the direction of US federal funding for biomass conversion into biofuels. —Regalbuto 2011. Regalbuto, J.

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million customers in Illinois (ComEd) and Pennsylvania (PECO), and gas to 485,000 customers in the Philadelphia area (PECO). In 2009, its total generation market and retail sales were 133,168 GWh. Exelon Corporation is one of the largest US electric utilities with approximately $19 billion in annual revenues.

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The spokes and other founder members are the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2009 the start-up company Permasense, providing wireless corrosion and non-destructive monitoring technology, was formed based on BP-funded research.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Oxford Resource Partners, LP, a low-cost producer of high-value steam coal in Northern Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. As of 31 December 2009, Oxford controlled 91.6 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves, and it currently operates 17 active mines that are managed as eight mining complexes.

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Goetzberger, who held more than 30 patents in Europe, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Patent Office in 2009. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor. He coauthored the seminal 2005 textbook Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation. Goetzberger was the first German to receive the honor.

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The fiscal year 2009 continuing resolution provided the ATVM loan program with $7.5 Loans awarded were: Ford Motor Company, $5.907 billion, Sep 2009: to upgrade factories across Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio and to introduce new technologies to raise the fuel efficiency of more than a dozen popular vehicles.

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MAY 19, 2009

Chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature’s most pervasive hydrogen processor by creating a model of the active site found in iron-iron hydrogenase and nickel-iron hydrogenase. Gray (2009) Nickel-Iron Dithiolato Hydrides Relevant to the [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Active Site. Barton et al.

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AUGUST 16, 2009

The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880. The global ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the warmest on record, 1.06 °F (0.59 °C) above the 20 th century average of 61.5 °F This was the 40 th wettest July in the 1895—2009 record.

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2009) Click to enlarge. Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Allborg University (Denmark) are studying a hybrid battery/ultracapacitor system for small electric vehicles. They presented a paper on their work at the recent SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit. From Li et al.(2009)

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MMNA) a wholly owned subsidiary of MMC in the United States, is preparing to end production of its sole production model—Outlander Sport—at its Bloomington-Normal, Illinois plant at the end of November 2015. In 2009, the production volume bottomed as low as 18,500 units.

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The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. The project will capture and sequester one million tons of CO 2 per year from an existing ethanol plant in Illinois, starting in August 2012. The CO 2 will be sequestered in the Mt.

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Prices will continue to be influenced by these supply factors over the next few weeks, according to Darrel Good, University of Illinois economist. billion bushels, 100 million larger than projected last month and 350 million larger than exports for the year ending 31 August 2009. The larger forecast reflects a US yield forecast of 161.9

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JULY 28, 2009

Using electrolyzed water rather than harsh chemicals could be a more effective and environmentally friendly method in the pretreatment of ethanol waste products to produce an acetone-butanol-ethanol fuel mix, according to research conducted at the University of Illinois. coli on fresh fruits and vegetables. Resources. 52(3): 885-892.

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The Pegasus pipeline is a 20-inch (51 cm), 858-mile (1,381-kilometer) link from the Patoka Oil Terminal Hub in Illinois to Nederland, Texas. In 2006, its reversal was completed, and in 2009, ExxonMobil completed a project that increased its capacity by 50% (about 30,000 barrels per day).

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By comparison, average households in states like California, New York, Illinois and Michigan use between 562 kwh and 799 kwh monthly. cubic meters per vehicle in 2011 within a corporate goal of reducing the amount of water used per vehicle by 30% between 2009 and 2015. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

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These sales result from an existing contract with the State of Kentucky that was first announced by Azure in August, 2009. 1 bus to the City of Charlevoix, Mi as part of a contract award from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) that was announced in September, 2009. The bus was sold by Atlas Bus Sales, Inc.

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As a comparison for scale, in 2009, Linde executed a long-term contract with PdV Midwest Refining LLC to supply hydrogen to the company’s CITGO Lemont, Illinois, oil refinery using a new 1.27 The HYDROPRIME product line covers the demand for on-site hydrogen generation units from 100 to 1,000 Nm 3 /h (8.41 kg of hydrogen per hour). (As

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John Cioffi Employer Stanford Title Professor of electrical engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma maters University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford “That memory always stayed in the back of my mind,” Cioffi says. “As He had always been interested in pushing the boundaries of what was possible based on mathematical equations.

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Tesla’s telematic’s system is available in four of the five states it offers its in-house insurance program : Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and Arizona. It usually can use plug-in devices or a mobile application to track driving behaviors and overall usage and can adjust a monthly insurance premium based on these behaviors.

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Currently all 80 branches of the Chicago Public Library have the kits, as do libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In 2009 he talked to the library’s executive director, Marilyn Genther , about creating science kits that could be circulated.

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MARCH 22, 2009

Initial funding would come from money provided by ARRA 2009 ( earlier post ). Texas will be competing against seven other states—Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina—for the battery project, which could bring more than 2,500 jobs over five years and attract battery-related suppliers to the state. “.There

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MSU received the preliminary award in 2009 and has been finalizing details on site selection, logistics, and project partners for the project to proceed. Schematic illustration of carbon capture and storage at Kevin Dome in Montana. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

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Electrovaya will showcase the Maya-300 at the 9 th National Motor Vehicle and Aviation Workshops and Exposition (FedFleet 2009) to be held 28 -30 July at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers and the Navy Pier located in Chicago, Illinois. Electrovaya has received approval for a C$16.7 million (US$14.5

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Facts like this from his blog Climate Progress: The University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center — has become weary of having their data misreported by global warming deniers like Will. km and on February 15, 2009, global sea ice area was 15.45 km less in February 2009 than in February 1979. million sq. million sq.

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Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. Scott Matthew (2009) Impact of Biofuel Crop Production on the Formation of Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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JULY 14, 2009

It is estimated that the study will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009, following which Denbury will evaluate external market conditions, the state of financing and construction of the proposed gasification projects, and make a decision as to whether or not they will take initial steps to build such a pipeline.

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Selman of the Illinois Institute of Technology commented that the design approach taken by Liu and his team—using the BZCYYb material that exhibits mixed conduction but exists as a single phase—could simplify anode structure considerably.it Selman, 2009. Selman (2009) Poison-Tolerant Fuel Cells. Science Vol. Science Vol.

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2009) Click to enlarge. Paul, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio. Spak (2009) Mobile Source CO 2 Mitigation through Smart Growth Development and Vehicle Fleet Hybridization. Article ASAP • doi: 10.1021/es8021655 • Publication Date (Web): 11 February 2009

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chillin' in the Las Vegas warmth of 110-degrees day, 27 July 2009. EVJerry" Asher In January 2009, Michael Craner and Madushini “Maddy” Gunawardana started planning a cross-country roadtrip from New York City to San Francisco. The PHEV All Around America EVducational Tour highlighted Plug-ins, both pure electrics and PHEVs.

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In August 2009, the Office of Basic Energy Sciences in the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science established 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs). Center for Geologic Storage of CO 2.

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The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000.

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Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. NAATBatt must submit its application to the DOE by 19 May 2009, and anticipates a decision on awards to be made this summer. If successful in securing the required funding, the Kentucky facility could begin construction immediately.

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The repeal of the federal speed control law in 1995 that restricted the maximum speed limit to 55 mph on all interstate roads in the US has resulted in an increase in road fatalities and injuries, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. The researchers found a 3.2% AJPH doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.153726.

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