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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

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. New York City Transit Department of Subways, New York: $2,000,000.

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

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He used Superpaint to make a videotape called “Vidbits” that was later shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Six months later his initial contract with PARC expired and was not renewed.

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