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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

Green Car Congress

featured California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, General Colin Powell, and early customers including Bank of America; The Coca-Cola Company; Cox Enterprises; eBay; FedEx Express; Google; Staples; and Walmart. Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA). The event was hosted at eBay Inc., Diagram of a solid oxide fuel cell.

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TeraWatt Infrastructure aims to address the massive energy capacity needs of EV fleet charging depots

Charged EVs

What we’re talking about at TeraWatt is having dozens of chargers in one location, dozens of vehicles charging simultaneously, which requires more than just a simple grid connection. I worked at utilities, and over the last 10 years, I was at Google helping lead the energy strategy for the global fleet of data centers.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Once again, a conference on plug-in cars. I will pay nothing for my 300 mile road trip.)

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. — Larry 4. Lead batts are around 98% recycled.

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