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

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Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Madison, Wis. Amesbury, Mass. Tempe, Ariz.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. 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. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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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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Additionally, novel enzymes in these fungal genomes may have industrial applications in the biomass pretreatment processes. Enhancing Bacterial Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Synthesis of Building Blocks for the Carboxysome, A Metabolic Module for CO2 Fixation. University of Texas at Arlington. Kerfeld, Cheryl.

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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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exceeding the magnetic properties of industrially important. Arlington). industries, without the need for these costly and scarce. industrially scalable high temperature phase change materials. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. rare earth magnets. This new alloy modification will provide.

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