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The Importance of Electrifying Municipal Vehicles

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Improving Air Quality Air pollution has been linked to numerous health conditions that lead to increased medical costs. Reducing Noise Pollution Waste management vehicles like street sweepers and garbage trucks improve public health and the environment but aren’t known for being quiet. EVs even improve energy security.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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Charged recently chatted with Mr. Miftakhov to learn about the technical and business aspects of hydrogen-electric aviation and his company’s ambitious plans for the future. You have waste heat, much less of it than a turbine because of higher efficiency, but still you need to get rid of it. Localized production? Val Miftakhov: Yeah.

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Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World

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Peter Rubin/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/NASA. Metal miners of the future may one day. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University leads the Psyche mission’s scientific team. JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/NASA. Fortunately for NASA, the cost of solar power has dropped dramatically over the past decade.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc.,

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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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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. light energy. Lawrence Berkeley.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Charging consumers to more accurately reflect the actual cost of a product--in this case energy--will lead consumers to change their behavior, smart-grid advocates say. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society. This past year the high cost of fuel did serious damage to our economy and society.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). Factors Determining Abatement Costs. The marginal costs of reducing (or abating) emissions depend on technological, behavioral, and policy-related factors. quarterly).

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