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ARPA-E Begins Reviewing Second Round of Concept Papers for Transformational Energy RD

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More specifically, 248 proposals were received in the Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies category, 245 in the Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation category and 90 related to Electrofuels. ARPA-E expects to issue an additional FOA in the near future.

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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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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Composite body electric buses: Replace conventional diesel transit buses with 35-ft composite body electric transit buses.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 The goal of this project is to combine all of these genes. contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. All generators contain coils of wire. Arlington). Lead organization.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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After earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York in 1960, Kahn had joined Bell Telephone Laboratories , working at its headquarters in Manhattan, where he helped to analyze the overall architecture and performance of the Bell telephone system. “If The reactions were all the same.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Kahn recruited about 50 people to act as facilitators, including the ARPA-funded researchers Vint Cerf , Robert Metcalfe , and Jon Postel , all of whom were destined for networking fame. There was electricity in the air,” Rosenthal recalled in a 1988 interview with one of us (Pelkey). All the U.S. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.

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