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DOE awards more than $145M for advanced solar technologies under SunShot Initiative

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Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems: Advanced Concepts: Eight projects to receive $25.9 The first accelerates development of new technologies from concept to commercial viability. And is President Obama using stimulus funds to reward his political contributors? SunShot Incubator: Four projects to receive $5.8

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California Startup Aurica Motors Trying to Keep NUMMI Plant Open for Manufacturing Electric Cars, Battery Swap System

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Aurica is trying to obtain Federal economic stimulus funding to convert NUMMI to electric car manufacturing, but is also open to private financing. The PEP station concept is not compatible with the Better Place system. Planned production would be 5,000 cars in the first year of production, moving up to 50,000+ within three years.

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International Battery Large-Format Li-ion Cells Chosen by SC Electric for First Community Energy Storage System

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Community Energy Storage is a concept for distributed energy storage initiated by AEP. As more renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are integrated into the smart grid, managing and storing energy is essential due to the intermittent nature of these power sources.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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The automotive industry is living proof that private companies will rarely change their behaviors without a significant stimulus to that change, and furthermore one that needs to be mandated. Without the CAFE standard and stimulus monies to promote green vehicle tech, the industry would not be headed toward a greener horizon.

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First fleet of 100 Mercedes-Benz Vito E-Cell electric vans covers 650,000 km in customer use; more model variants planned

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In Stuttgart, the Integrated Concept for Sustainable Electric Mobility project (IKONE) is being funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. The two promotional initiatives are part of the German federal government’s second economic stimulus package.

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New "E-nose" Samples Odors 60 Times Per Second

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Odors are all around us, and often disperse fast—in hazardous situations like wildfires, for example, wind conditions quickly carry any smoke (and the smell of smoke) away from its origin. Resistance response curves illustrate how a sensor’s resistance changes over time in response to a stimulus, such as an odor.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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