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USDA and DOE Partnership Awards $8.9M to 9 Projects to Develop Better Plants for Biofuels

Green Car Congress

The research grants will be awarded under the joint DOE-USDA Plant Feedstocks Genomics for Bioenergy program, which is focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics to harness lignocellulosic materials for biofuels production. Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy 2010 Awards. University of Georgia, Athens.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

government was going to try a whole bunch of different government interventions—incentive programs, tax credits, grants, infrastructure investments—to bend the trajectory of our energy transition. And there are states like Georgia where public interveners don’t have any right to discovery. And Oregon is pretty transparent.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. We would also have a degree of resilience in the face of threats. And they exist. Here, too, electricity is key.

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