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See & test drive your favorite EVs at Drive Electric Earth Month, all April

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SpaceCoast EV Earth Day in Melbourne, FL , at the American Muscle Car Museum, the largest solar-powered auto museum in the world. To view all the events and see what’s happening in your area, you can check out the list of events or the events map. April 20, 8am-12pm. April 20, 10am-2pm.

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See & test drive your favorite EVs at Drive Electric Earth Month, thru April

Baua Electric

SpaceCoast EV Earth Day in Melbourne, FL , at the American Muscle Car Museum, the largest solar-powered auto museum in the world. To view all the events and see what’s happening in your area, you can check out the list of events or the events map. April 20, 8am-12pm. April 20, 10am-2pm.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM).

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Universal Method for Creating Nanoscale Composites

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The team has applied this scheme to more than 20 different combinations of materials, including close-packed nanocrystal spheres for thermoelectric materials and vertically aligned nanorods for solar cells. Milliron (2010) Modular Inorganic Nanocomposites by Conversion of Nanocrystal Superlattices. Ravisubhash Tangirala, Jessy L.

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Rice team demonstrates more efficient photocatalyst for converting ammonia to hydrogen

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If other catalytic metals can be substituted for ruthenium in our synthesis, these plasmonic benefits could be applied to other chemical conversions, making them both more sustainable and less expensive. —,Rice Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) Director Naomi Halas.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The glamorous vision has inspired numerous futuristic proposals.

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In the Caribbean, EVs leave ICE vehicles behind

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Thirty years of solar White, a residential architect for 40 of the 50 years he has lived on St. White installed a solar system in his home by 1992, and when the next Category 5 hurricane struck in 1995, “We had back-up. White’s Polaris GEM with added solar panel. White runs his two LEAFs on his home’s solar energy. “My