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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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The selected projects, which will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy's (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), are: Area 1: Pre-Processing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems. Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Ill.) Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.)

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South Korean EV Company to Open Two Production and Distribution Facilities in Pennsylvania

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The company is focusing on sites on the Delaware River in Philadelphia for its initial Pennsylvania location. CT&T has a contract to supply 4,000 neighborhood electric vehicles to California police organizations, which will use them as downtown parking supervision vehicles. Tags: Brief.

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USDA and DOE Partnership Awards $8.9M to 9 Projects to Develop Better Plants for Biofuels

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Combining DOE’s leadership in genome-scale technologies with USDA’s long experience in crop improvement will help accelerate development of such specialized crops and improve their effectiveness as feedstocks for biofuels production, the two agencies said. University of Delaware, Newark. University of California, Berkeley.

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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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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Hybrid Buses: Upgrade a planned order of buses from diesel to hybrid technology. Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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USDA’s report identifies numerous biomass feedstocks to be utilized in developing biofuels and calls for the funding of further investments in research and development of: Feedstock; Sustainable production and management systems; Efficient conversion technologies and high-value bioproducts; and. Tags: Biomass Fuels. Central East.

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Requiring Lower Sulfur Marine Fuels Could Reduce Emissions-Related Deaths by Up to 50% Annually By 2012

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or 27,000 ppm S)—according to a new study by researchers from the US and Germany, led by Dr. James Winebrake at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The study is published in the current issue of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Tags: Emissions Fuels Ports and Marine. and (c) Global 0.5. Earlier post.)

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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The mission of the EFRCs is to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced energy technologies for the 21 st century. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. University of California, Santa Barbara. University of Delaware. University of Southern California. Center for Excitonics. $19.

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