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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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Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000. Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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West Virginia University Research Corporation , Morgantown, W.V. Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. The model will simulate an injection of 100 million metric tonnes of CO 2 annually at dozens of power plant locations across Indiana and Illinois. Risk Assessment.

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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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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. Corporation, Columbia. Arlington). Corporation). Corporation). Corporation. technology will yield biomass comprised of 20% oil and can be. Arnold Magnetic.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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KAHN Corporation for National Research Initiatives Reston, Va. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE DENNIS J.

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