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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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MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000. Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Poor Adele,” Tesler said. After a year I was ready to give up.”

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