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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Instrumentation to Provide Realistic Training Exercises for Radiation Protection at Nuclear Facilities, $750,000 Argon Electronics (UK) LTD, Luton, UK LLNL Composite Sorbents: Enabling Economical Biomethane Production, $500,000 SoCalGas, Los Angeles, Calif. Los Alamos National Laboratory. WWTP, Antioch, Calif. Tempe, Ariz.

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

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Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Electrochaea GmbH (Munich, Germany). Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Framatome Inc.

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

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February, 2008 : Researchers from England, Germany, and the United States proposed replacing the term “tipping point”, which suggests a specific time frame, with “tipping elements” to describe known ecosystems in danger of collapse, yet for which a likely timeframe could not easily be estimated ( earlier post ).

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Theres still a lot of development that needs to be done from the standpoint of cost, safety and weight," a Toyota spokesman said this week. -- ( Los Angeles Times ) 8/9/07 Toyota spokesman John McCandless said the company does not comment on its product plans, but he disagreed that the developments give GM an edge. "No This is unusual.

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