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President Obama Outlines Vision and Plan for US High-Speed Passenger Rail System; $13B to Start

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South Central Corridor (Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Little Rock). Providing grants to complete individual projects that are “ready to go” with completed environmental and preliminary engineering work – with an emphasis on near term job creation. Chicago Hub Network( Chicago, Milwaukee, Twin Cities, St.

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

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Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Arizona State University scientists will develop engineered-cyanobacteria as biocatalysts to use solar energy and carbon dioxide to produce and secret fatty acids for biofuel feedstock. Wave Disk Engine. Earlier post.) DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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