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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally. The greatest percentage increase was in Nebraska at 16.0% (6.6 New York experienced a decline of 38.6 million tonnes (18.3%). million tonnes or 13.9%).

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ARPA-E Awards Consortium $4.4M to Develop Next-Generation Magnets; Applications in Motors in Hybrids, EVs, Wind Turbines

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He will coordinate a team of chemists, material scientists, physicists, and engineers from the University of Delaware; University of Nebraska; Northeastern University; Virginia Commonwealth University; the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa; and the Electron Energy Corporation in Landisville, Pa.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. DOE Grant: $4,565,800). Catalytic Biocrude Production in a Novel, Short-contact Time Reactor. CONVENTIONAL ENERGY.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. No one single factor affects our economy more or trickles down further than the high cost of fuel. This past year the high cost of fuel did serious damage to our economy and society. After a brief reprieve gas is inching back up. per barrel.

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