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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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Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000. Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. The largest PV installation in Georgia.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Argonne National Laboratory.

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DOE to award up to $11.3M to advance innovative geothermal energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight projects in five states—California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah—to receive up to $11.3 If selected for Phase II, projects will then validate the designs in real-world environments. Westport, Connecticut) up to $200,000. Gtherm, Inc.

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ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics double lipid production in algae species without inhibiting growth

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Researchers at Synthetic Genomics’ laboratory discovered a new process for increasing oil production by identifying a genetic switch that could be fine-tuned to regulate the conversion of carbon to oil in the algae species, Nannochloropsis gaditana. In 2016, ExxonMobil announced its partnership with Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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A growing understanding of how matter behaves in nano-confined environments such as in the interior of sub-nanometer CNTs, in which molecules move single file at high rates and act differently than they do in bulk fluids. Dr. McCutcheon’s research is in membrane separations with a focus on membrane fabrication and characterization.

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

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” and is currently manager of programming environments at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View. “Or

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