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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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Most nuclear plants around the world today are large light-water reactors, with capacities well over a gigawatt—quite a bit more than typical coal plants. Large reactors need consistent and prolific water sources to cool themselves, something not every old coal plant can provide. Either option will be an uphill battle.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Oregon State University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Global Algae Innovations. Scale-up of Novel Algae Drying and Extraction Unit Operations. North Carolina State University. Scaling Up Biocrude Derived Anode Material (BDAM). Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Research Triangle Institute.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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Franklin Soil & Water Conservation District is replacing three school buses and four agriculture engines and converting three irrigation pumps to clean burning electric. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. North Carolina. Beyond Toxics is replacing one truck and installing advanced exhaust controls on seven trucks.

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Are EVs Charged Mostly By Coal Power in the US?

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And of those states, only two states — the aforementioned Colorado — and Illinois have more than 30% of their electricity from coal. More impressively, 4 of these states (California, New York, Washington, and Oregon) accounted for 50.8% And 15 states with renewable energy sources of 25% or more combined for 53.5%

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000. Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, Oregon: $750,000. Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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As a result, more than 200 public chargers will be installed at IKEA retail sites in 18 states, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Watering the Sustainability Dream.

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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You need large auxiliary systems to remove the carbon dioxide and water, and it’s very hard to do this.” —Xiulei Ji, assistant professor of chemistry at Oregon State University, who was not involved in this work. But the new battery, which never needs to draw in any outside air, circumvents this issue.

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