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Construction begins on DOE-sponsored carbon-capture project at Kentucky Power Plant

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million carbon-capture pilot, funded in part by the US Department of Energy (DOE), at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. The 2 megawatt thermal system will be the first megawatt-scale carbon-capture pilot unit in the Commonwealth. An integrated cooling tower that recovers energy from the carbon-capture system and improves power plant efficiency.

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Green Friday | Black Friday

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Gallagher’s Music – Grimsby and Cleethorpes only music store. In 2018, S T O W E A W A Y A R T was founded by traveling creative enthusiast and our very own internal Creative Designer Charlotte Stowe. Read About The 9 Businesses we have supported for Green Friday. Gift voucher this Green Friday.

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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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City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.) Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000. as well as administrative and dispatch services.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Enhanced Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Gyroid Membrane for High Efficiency Carbon Dioxide Absorption, $250,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). First Solar Inc.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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