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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Such tagging will better quantify CO 2 monitoring and make it possible to accurately inventory geologically stored carbon.

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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 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.)

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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It is for this work on packet communication technologies—as part of the project that became the ARPANET and in the foundations of the Internet—that Kahn is being awarded the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. He recalls traveling through Europe with Kahn, trying to convince organizations to become part of the network. “We

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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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The distinctive ‘terroir’ that flavors wine, the yield of maize and other crops, and the productivity of any plant community rely in part on the respective rhizosphere microbiome. Microbial ecology and genomics of carbon-storing bacteria in rhizosphere soils. University of Texas at Arlington. DeAngelis, Kristen.