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Study suggests widespread use of EVs may negatively impact land use

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are widely regarded as the key to finally making private mobility clean, yet virtually no research is being conducted on their potential contribution to the expansion of impervious surfaces. Lyon, France; Tampa, FL, USA), a mere 0.5 % increase of these would imply the loss of 1.5

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DOE, RTI to Design and Build Coal Syngas Cleanup System for IGCC Power Plants to Reduce Cost of Removing Contaminants, Capturing CO2; Potential for Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels

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The system also holds the potential to reduce the cost of producing chemicals, transportation fuels, and substitute natural gas from gasified coal. RTI’s syngas cleanup technologies will be tested at Tampa Electric Company’s 250-MW IGCC power plant, using up to 20% of the syngas produced by the coal gasifier.

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

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These improvements will all be made in the hopes of driving down the cost of solar energy. HiTek Services will focus on optimizing reflector array, or heliostat, designs in order to reduce the cost of using heliostats in a solar field. University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 Terrafore, Inc. Riverside, CA – up to $1.4

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. Florida, Tampa). Pacific Northwest. Arlington).

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