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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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These improvements will all be made in the hopes of driving down the cost of solar energy. Awards under this category focus on research and development of concepts and components that could be part of a CSP baseload system. University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 Terrafore, Inc. Riverside, CA – up to $1.4

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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Concepts like ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and levering connected vehicle technologies to police driving from an environmental and social standpoint are rooted in the key principles of Vision Zero. .& Many of the promoted solutions exist to inconvenience motorists in a bid to discourage them from driving entirely.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. advanced low cost and efficient thermal storage for solar and. Florida, Tampa).

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