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DOE awards $3.6M to High Performance Computing projects in manufacturing, materials and mobility

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Knoxville, TN) will partner with ORNL to improve predicting layer temperature profiles to reduce print time and waste and optimize large-scale additive manufacturing process and reduce its energy cost. Praxair Inc., a member of the Linde group - Praxair, Inc. HPC for Mobility.

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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If the testing is successful, the team will consider building smaller-scale ethanol plants distributed across the Valley to be close to the sorghum fields to lower transportation costs. 1,900,000 to the City of San Jose to build and demonstrate a new system that turns trash into natural gas that can be used as a transportation fuel.

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

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The program funds projects to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, including electricity, natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen, and gasoline and diesel substitutes, such as cellulosic ethanol (derived from woody materials, including agricultural waste), and biodiesel from waste grease.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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All of those things, they actually contribute more [air pollution] than CO 2 alone. Charged : What are your projections for cost per mile? So, I can go to the operators and say, “If we can show that our hydrogen comes from zero-emission sources, we can get the credit, pretty much offsetting the entire fuel costs in California today.”.

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California Energy Commission approves more than $20M for clean transportation projects; Tesla, Quallion, other EV, battery and alt-fuel vehicles projects

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Two battery switching stations, at the international airports in San Francisco and San Jose, and six taxis that use switchable batteries will be used. The project will include assessments of cost, capacity, performance and reliability, along with design, testing and production. Valley Garbage and Rubbish Co.,