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Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Restores Hydrogen Research Funding in FY2010 Funding Legislation

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The House Approprations committee also has agreed to a $40 million increase for hydrogen transportation systems ($108 million total) originally added to the DOE FY2010 budget by the House Energy and Water Development Subcommittee. Differences between House and Senate budgets, once passed, will need to be worked out in a conference committee.

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KiOR halts cellulosic fuels production at Columbus in Q1 to optimize production; need for R&D to boost yield and cut costs

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Further, assuming commercial supply of its next-generation catalyst in by the second quarter of 2014, as well as the installation of additional equipment to recover yield from process gases and water, KiOR expects a significant increase in yield by the first quarter of 2015.

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Vanderbilt meeting concludes time to begin developing climate change adaptation strategies for transportation sector

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The threats associated with extreme weather and climate change are substantial and adapting to climate change will be crucial to economic and social stability, for example by making future water, food and energy supplies reliable and sustainable. Contributing to these costs is the problem of the nation’s aging infrastructure, which needs $2.2

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. at San Diego, Mississippi State. heating and water purification. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. Mississippi State. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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