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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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economical to store or transport. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. Washington. The University of Washington will develop microbes that convert. Corporation. Ceramatec, Inc. BTUs worldwide).

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Of the lead recipients, 24% are small businesses, 57% are educational institutions, 11% are national labs, and 8% are large corporations. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. of Washington). Sion Power Corporation. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Description.

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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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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. Corporation, Columbia. Corporation). Corporation). Camelina will be engineered with. field trials. sorghum and switchgrass.

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CleanFUEL USA partners with Freightliner on new 8.0L propane LPI medium-duty engine

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CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. Stored and transported like.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Kahn Current job: Chairman, CEO, and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) Date of birth: 23 December 1938 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Family: Patrice Ann Lyons, his wife Education: BEE 1960, City College of New York ; M.A. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. and Toronto, Ont., Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we Marketwatch ). New York Times ) 10/22/07 ".in

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