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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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AK Steel Corporation. AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Organization.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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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. Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin).

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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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Green Car Congress recently had a quick conversation with John Warren, Director of Government Relations & Project Development for Osage Bio Energy in Glen Allen, VA. In fact, growing barley is better than leaving the field fallow according to the Chesapeake Quarterly (published by the Maryland Sea Grant College, Vol 8, No.

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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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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Corporation, Columbia. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. Corporation). Corporation). conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of.

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