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Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

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Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 is a privately owned Alberta corporation formed in 2001 to design, build and operate biogas cogeneration facilities. Enmax Corporation , C$14.5 million (US$36.6 ECB Enviro North America Inc. , million (US$14.1

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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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The last tenant of the 107,000-square-foot property was Mexican Industries, which made plastic moldings for the auto industry until filing for bankruptcy in 2001. The building will house offices, meeting rooms, training space and laboratories for developing and testing technologies for manufacturing.

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MassCEC Approves $5M Forgivable Loan for A123 Systems; Targeted at Expansion for Grid Storage Systems

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The company anticipates making $80 million in capital expenditures in Massachusetts to build up its manufacturing and R&D capabilities there by the end of 2014. Founded in 2001, A123 Systems develops and manufactures advanced lithium ion batteries and battery systems for the transportation, electric grid and consumer markets.

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Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

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a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. Rentech has entered into a licensing agreement with SilvaGas Corporation for biomass gasification technology for the Rialto facility. Click to enlarge.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I Mainly, the group aimed to build a way to model the performance of the ARPANET and its gateways under different traffic conditions. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to build the switches for the nascent network.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

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Bloom Energy Corporation staged a high-profile event announcing the availability of the Bloom Energy Server, a patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for distributed power generation. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. The event was hosted at eBay Inc.,

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FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

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This flight-test program builds on the success of Boeing’s Quiet Technology Demonstrators, which successfully highlighted a variety of noise reduction technologies during test flights aboard Boeing 777 aircraft from 2001 to 2005. Ron Rich, vice president of Propulsion Systems, Honeywell Aerospace. Pratt & Whitney.

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