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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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The company aims to transform the chemical industry through the cost-advantaged, smaller-footprint production of bio-based chemicals as direct replacements for major industrial chemicals that are currently petroleum-based in a trillion-dollar global market. Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Fission waste by-products need to be disposed of safely, and they remain radioactive for thousands of years. NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example. This fuel also costs a lot.

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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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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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

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Reducing Protein Production Costs to Enable Cell Free Biocatalysis, $400,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000.