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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 winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5 Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000.

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Sun Roasted Coffee on the Rise

Cars That Think

Massive amounts of data that would require loads of disk drives if stored as ones and zeros could be stored instead in a smear of DNA on a single chip. Researchers at Georgia Tech say they and their collaborators at biotech companies Twist Bioscience and Roswell Biotechnologies are close to creating just such a DNA storage drive.

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