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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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plans to study the feasibility of recovering critical minerals from coal and associated strata in the Cherokee-Forest City Basin encompassing Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and the Osage Nation. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. Other: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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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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Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Wind Energy Project: GLPTC seeks to reduce its electrical energy usage by investing in a renewable source of energy to be generated by wind using equipment on site.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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It is generous to say that an acre of Iowa can provide 12,500 miles per year at a cost of 10 cents each. Consider the venerable oil drilling donkey, which cycles once every 7 or 8 seconds. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. What this country needed was a good 5-cent kWh, and now we have it.

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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. Breakthrough High Efficiency Shrouded Wind Turbine. DOE grant: $5,205,706). DOE grant: $4,085,350).

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Republican surrounding AGs, business teams problem U.S. kindness of California truck regulations

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The states led via Iowa filed a petition on Monday within the U.S. Iowa Lawyer Common Brenna Fowl mentioned California’s regulations will “devastate the demand for liquid fuels, such as biodiesel.” Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia difficult the selections. extra stringent than stream requirements.

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Obama continues push for green revolution

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The President spoke in Iowa at a wind energy factory about the bloated US energy consumption which was inflicting an unacceptable loss on the economy and the climate. He bemoaned the fact that America has less than five per cent of the world’s population but accounts for a quarter of its demand for oil.

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