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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. Colorado School of Mines , Golden, Colo. The development of refined and coupled geochemical, mechanical, and flow models will yield better predictions of subsurface CO 2 behavior, thereby assisting the design and implementation of CO 2 geologic storage projects.

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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 new Fisher buses will provide more than triple the equivalent fuel economy in all-electric mode and reduce CO2 emissions due to the extensive use of lightweight materials and the large capacity battery system. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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Arlington, Va.) Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.) Carbon storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs can also increase oil or gas production, while storage of CO 2 in deep saline formations holds the promise of enormous worldwide capacity, with estimates of thousands of gigatonnes of storage.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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Now Banfield and her colleagues propose to recover genomes from subsurface microbial communities at the DOE Integrated Field Research Challenge bioremediation research site at Rifle, Colorado. University of Colorado. University of Texas at Arlington. Emerson, David. Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Fierer, Noah.

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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). develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. University of Colorado. Wafer-Level Sub-Module Integrated DC/DC Converter The University of Colorado team will develop and demonstrate. . $2,319,474. Pacific Northwest. National Laboratory. Ames Laboratory, Electron Energy Corp, United Technologies.

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