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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. In the wind energy industry, doubling the length of a turbine blade can quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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The new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), announced today by President Obama, will focus on advanced fiber-reinforced polymer composites that combine strong fibers with tough plastics to yield materials that are lighter and stronger than steel. Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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US DOE announces 3 consortia for $125M US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center; solar, second-generation biofuels and buildings

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President Obama and Prime Minister Singh launched the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) in November 2009 to accelerate the transition to high performing, low emissions, and energy secure economies. The Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center is part of the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy.

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NSF-funded supercomputing project to combine physics-based modeling with massive amounts of data

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The project exemplifies the objectives of President Obama's new National Strategic Computing Initiative ( earlier post ), which has called for the use of vast data sets in addition to increasing brute force computing power. A three-petabyte hard drive will handle both traditional and big data storage. Click to enlarge.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. Do the simple math, Obama (ho,ho) and learn just how stupid thou really art.

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