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

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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. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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DOE Awarding $4.4M to Six Projects for Carbon Capture and Conversion

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PhosphorTech Corporation (Lithia Springs, Ga.). Investigators will attempt to create an energy efficient, CO 2 -consuming inorganic binding phase to serve as a high-performing substitute for Portland cement (PC) in concrete. DOE share: $1,000,000; recipient share: $250,067; duration: 24 months). CCS Materials, Inc. Piscataway, N.J.).

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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South Plainfield, New Jersey) will demonstrate an innovative tidal turbine system that incorporates a Hydraulic Energy Transfer system to pressurize and pump water to low-cost onshore hydroelectric generating stations. Sunlight Photonics, Inc. DOE Funding: $400,000. Total Project Value: $531,000. DOE Funding: $240,000.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Portland General Electric. Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49

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