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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Selected projects, by size of award, are: State of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Clean Transportation Program. The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. Total DOE award: $12,299,828. Total DOE award: $9,950,708.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Madison, Wisconsin). Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin). Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Argonne National Laboratory.

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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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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Lighting Conversion and Upgrades for Facilities: Converting the lighting system at four RIPTA facilities to more energy efficient systems. Milwaukee County Department of Transportation and Public Works, Wisconsin: $210,000.

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DOE BESC engineered microbe improves biobutanol yield from cellulose by a factor of 10

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While the earlier work by BESC researchers at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of California at Los Angeles was important from a proof-of-principle perspective, this new result represents a significant gain. While the previous genetically engineered microbe achieved conversion results of 0.6 Xu, Beth A.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Hymotion, February 2006 Hymotion Toronto, Ontario info@hymotion.com 6.

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