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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation. The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles. UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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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

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With ultimate research targets ranging from off-shore wind power and coral reef ecology to electrochemical energy storage, quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year. million to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (Lincoln, Neb.)

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators.

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Study finds removing corn residue for biofuel production can decrease soil organic carbon and increase CO2 emissions; may miss mandated 60% GHG reduction

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Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Changes in SOC.

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

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Cyanobacteria Designed for Solar-Powered Highly Efficient Production of Biofuels. Sun Catalytix Corporation will develop a unique technology to split water into hydrogen and oxygen under benign conditions to enable storage of intermittent renewable solar and wind energy for around-the-clock use. DOE grant: $566,641).

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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

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Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. Additionally, Bill Moore, publisher of the EV World weekly online newsletter, also offered support publicizing the effort.