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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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Nearly 400 exhibitors representing the boldest energy innovations in the United States came together last week at the annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. The conference, hosted in Dallas by the U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm spoke at the summit. Phoenix Tailings —a startup based in Woburn, Mass.—extracts

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Wal-Mart Testing Two Different Hybrid Systems and Three Alt Fuels on Class 8 Trucks

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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart uses Class 8 trucks to haul its trailers and deliver product to its stores. In addition to its work at highway speeds, the engine also charges an onboard energy storage system, which provides power to the electric motor when demand is high. ArvinMeritor Dual-Mode Hybrid Propulsion.

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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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several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. light energy. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Camelina will be engineered with. University.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. While utilities such as E.ON

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