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Double trouble

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Nebraska EVA chapter works in tandem with the Sierra Club. Outreach event sponsored by Eastern NE EVA and the Nebraska Sierra Club. NE Nebraska EVA event. We’d done that successfully before; Nebraskans for Solar went off on their own, others have too. NE Nebraska EVA participation in parade.

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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

Green Car Congress

The new facility will include labs for process development, prototype manufacturing and testing as well as applied research on batteries, capacitors, solar energy materials and biofuels. million to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (Lincoln, Neb.) million to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (Lincoln, Neb.)

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and. alternative fuel vehicle conversions, equipment safety, and fueling. The Mid-America Collaborative for Alternative Fuels Implementation project will focus diversifying transportation fuel options in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Greater Portland.

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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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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Nebraska – Lincoln).

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. DIRECT SOLAR FUELS. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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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

Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply.