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DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

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ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy will install state-of-the-art, American-made geothermal heat engines at Blackburn Oilfield in Nevada for electrical power production. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department.

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Installing charging infrastructure (approximately $250 million); Public Education initiatives (approximately $25 million); and. billion commitment will be spent in $300 million increments over four 30-month cycles.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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EPA Awards $5.6M to Spur New Clean Diesel Technologies

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University of Houston for $1 million for NO x reducing technologies installed on school buses. Recipients of the emerging technologies grants are: City of Los Angeles Harbor Department for $731,000 for a hybrid crane with a small diesel generator combined with a battery to be used at ports.

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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma — Intelligent Casing-Intelligent Formation Telemetry System. Ultimately, the reduced size and weight of the umbilicals will result in easier and potentially safer handling of cable during installation. Brief descriptions of the selected projects follow: ?. Doris, Inc. —

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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Houston-Galveston. will work to expand access to natural gas, propane and biodiesel transportation fuels across the eight-county Houston-Galveston area. installation; and develop and conduct training programs regarding. University, North. University of Central. potential users. Area Council. Metropolitan Energy.

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