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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. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. 29,561,142. 125,006,103.

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$3M Award Supports Production of New Multi-tasking Fuzzy Fiber Nanomaterial; Energy Applications

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The Third Frontier award, announced 26 May in Columbus, will be matched by UDRI and Ohio collaborators Goodrich, Owens Corning and Renegade Materials to fund the creation and equipment of a full-scale production facility for the hybrid fabric.

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Smart Grid projects pick up huge funding boost

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The second group features another 16 awards at a total of $185million aimed at funding utility scale energy storage projects that will enhance both the reliability and the efficiency of the grid.

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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

Baua Electric

Although it is believed that the Dutch and Christopher Columbus landed on the archipelago, it was the British who settled San Andres around 1630. It’s the local solution to a universal challenge: how to retain the unique identity of a place when tourism starts booming. I’d never driven a golf cart any significant distance, so when Ms.

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.;

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The Classic Resort Beach is Being Rethought

Baua Electric

Jones, a coastal ecologist at the University of North Florida. But on modern shorelines, these trees do little to prevent sand erosion or block wind and they provide scant shade, an increasingly valuable commodity in a warming world. They are also nonnative to many of the worlds most popular beach destinations.

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One Driver, Two Trucks: Is This the Future of Freight?

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The pair of semi trucks cruising down Interstate 70 between Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis may seem unremarkable at first glance. On closed tracks and in wind tunnel tests, trucks have been spaced as little as 4 meters apart. But these rigs are part of a groundbreaking pilot project that could reshape Americas freight industry.

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