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Report: JR Tokai and 11 partners to team on bid for high-speed rail system in Florida

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JR Tokai aims to win an order for a 130 km [81 miles] line connecting the cities of Tampa and Orlando. It hopes to build a system based on the Tokai shinkansen bullet train it operates in Japan. (JR Tokai) plans to team up with 11 partners to bid for a high-speed rail system in Florida. Nippon Sharyo Ltd.; Toshiba Corp.;

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne will build on and advance the current solar power tower plant design. University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8 SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. –

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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It cites the economic and environmental costs of building roads, traffic accidents, oil exploration, fuel production, material mining, manufacturing, insurance and just about everything else that comes with living in a developed society.& & Those were the more sensational aspects. tire dust) while mitigating others.