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Daimler, Blue Bird, IC Bus introduce electric school buses at NAPT

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Three major school bus manufacturers—Daimler subsidiary Thomas Built Buses, Blue Bird and Navistar subsidiary IC Bus—introduced battery-electric school buses at the recent National Association for Pupil Transportation Annual Conference and Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio (NAPT). Jouley will drive up to 81 children.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Such tagging will better quantify CO 2 monitoring and make it possible to accurately inventory geologically stored carbon.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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As We May Think Bush didn’t foresee the technical means by which vast amount of information could be stored electronically but he correctly predicted in 1945 that radical miniaturization of information was on the horizon. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task.”

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Satellite and GPS Measurements Show Ice Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Spreading to Northwest Coast

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Other co-authors on the new study are Michael Bevis and Eric Kendrick from Ohio State University, Columbus; and Isabella Velicogna of the University of California-Irvine, who also is a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Courtesy John Wahr, University of Colorado. Shfaqat Abbas Khan.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. The 1 MW/4hr system will store potential energy in the form of compressed air in above-ground industrial pressure facilities.

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Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership release Phase II reports

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Refinement of earlier estimates of regional storage capacity in the MRCSP’s deep geologic formations further confirmed the potential for storing at least a century’s worth of CO 2 emissions from all the region’s major CO 2 sources.

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow), forest resources (e.g., of Columbus, Ohio (up to $4.9 Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that were considered include: agricultural residues, energy crops (e.g., forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees), and urban wood wastes.

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