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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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Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000.

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10-Year FTA Low-Speed Urban Maglev Research Program Shows Technology is Feasible, But Infrastructure Costs and Availability of Technologies Are Intimidating

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Most large urban areas in the United States have already invested in some type of mass transit system (subway or light rail) and urban maglev poses a fundamental change in technology that is viewed as being both a major risk and cost-prohibitive by transit agencies and investors, according to the report. ferromagnetic aluminum, copper, etc.)

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Physicists Spin Up Quantum Tornadoes

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These wave-shaped clouds, seen over an apartment complex in Denver, Colo., The way to make quantum cloud vortices, though, involves more lab equipment and less atmospheric wind shear. “We Light travels in both one way and the other in the fiber, and if the entire thing is spinning, you should get an interference pattern.

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