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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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This facility will house energy research efforts including, but not limited to, studies of high efficiency combustion engines, biomass gasification kinetics, biochemical-enzymatic conversion of biomass, and carbon dioxide capture from sources including power plants and combustion engines; $10.3 for a nanoscience metrology facility; $6.9

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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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Nebraska – Lincoln). Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more. The power conversion devices.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. EVJerry traveled with the RAR caravan as an advance scout vehicle in the All American “Spirit of DC”.