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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. The competition goal is to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration, thereby opening access to the moon and its valuable resources. Since 2004, public and private entities have invested more than $1.5 prosthetic eye, haptics).

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US DOE Issues Request for Information on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Market Development; Reports to Congress on Program

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DOE is looking for information on other and related potential early market applications, including but not limited to airport ground support equipment, personal mobility applications, and grounds-keeping equipment. billion with private sector cost-sharing). The 2015 cost target was $2-$3/gge. System cost remains an issue.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Winner of the 2004 Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning. I’m not against that and we should be exploring it but there are a lot of challenges—the primary one being the cost of these vehicles and there are infrastructure issues as well ,” cautioned Heywood. Dr. Luca Guala, Systemica. The city will have two transit levels.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Lowering costs by helping technologies cross the Valley of Death between pilot scale production and commercialization is the charter of the proposed Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) which was discussed by attendees. Costs are also falling due to classic economics. Earlier post.).

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