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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Battery Powered Zero Emission Circulator Buses: Innovative Quick Opportunity Charge, Lithium-Ion Titanate Battery Powered Community Bus program. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Link Transit, Washington: $2,925,000.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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Empower’s design will enable faster & more accurate power delivery than today’s power management hardware, which has not been able to keep up with the need for high-quality power in modern processors, an important source of wasted energy. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University I. 1,602,275.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Peter Roach, Birmingham, UK Nickel metal hydride (NiMH) batteries powered the late GM EV1 and still power hundreds of Toyota RAV4 EVs, some over 100,000 miles. Also, Firefly batteries now being produced use lead foam in lead-acid configuration, cutting their weight almost in half. Please read our Privacy Policy.To