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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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Red Line Westlake Rail Wayside Energy Storage System: Install wayside energy storage substation (WESS) at Westlake passenger station is at-grade level on the high-speed heavy rail subway Red Line. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Maryland Transit Administration, Maryland: $522,000.

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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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Ames Laboratory, Electron Energy Corp, United Technologies. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. Arlington). Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage NAVITASMAX will develop a novel heat storage method for. energy density over existing systems by an order of.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALEXANDER BARG University of Maryland College Park “For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.” PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS Sponsor: Raytheon Technologies FRED DAUM Raytheon Technologies Arlington, Va.

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