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DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions issues first call to launch new energy technologies from national laboratories to market

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As part of a continued push to encourage energy innovation and commercialization, the US Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) issued its first solicitation for proposals that help bring advanced energy technologies to market. The office’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) has been newly infused this year with $20 million from across the Department.

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Electric-Car Trends, Tesla Model 3, GM Vs LG, VW Diesels (Again): The Week In Reverse

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Which large factory hasn't quite lived up to its projections for jobs or investment as yet? And, what do we see as the biggest electric-car trends between now and 2020? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, February 5, 2016. Friday was just two days before Super Bowl Sunday.

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NREL and BESC discovery explains higher biomass degrading activity of C. thermocellum; potential boon for cellulosic biofuels

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Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) have discovered a new cell-free cellulosomal system in Clostridium thermocellum —the most efficient single biomass degrader characterized to date —that is not tethered to the bacterial cell wall and is independent of the primary (tethered) cellulosomes.

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