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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif.

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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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The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. HVAC upgrades include DDC control system covering all buildings, expanded control system with advanced control strategies. as well as administrative and dispatch services.

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Toyota Connected’s ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses new tech to detect occupants

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The autonomous-vehicle company is testing the technology in its fleet of Toyota Sienna AutonoMaaS (Autonomous Mobility as a Service) ( earlier post ) minivans at its headquarters in Michigan and will soon begin testing in public AV deployments in Arlington, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, with additional deployments coming in late 2022.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” The next thing I know,” Kahn says, “there’s an RFQ [request for quotation] from ARPA for building a four-node net.” It never dawned on me that I’d actually get involved in building it,” he says. It’s the buildings, it’s the people, it’s the Constitution.

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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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Arlington). Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more. . $2,319,474. Pacific Northwest. generation.

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