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DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

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Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies available today are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms. Buildings Technologies. saline water).

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. If successful, this.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. ARPA-E’s ALPHA program will develop the tools to build foundations for new pathways toward fusion power. Colorado State University.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop. We imagine you objecting: “Oh no, we’ll have to build lots more power plants!” Appropriately using the slow-charging option available to all PHEVs, we can greatly increase the UF of the grid. (In

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. However, I dont welcome this news. Saving lives through nuclear power. :p Simply, those are not the main concern for campaigners right now.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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It is thought that the cars that Renault is building to function with the Better Place model will have the ability to have its power supply swapped and the newly announced Tesla Model S is said to also incorporate this concept. You could sit in your vehicle while the operation takes place. Hey, maybe you got an email during the drive, right?