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FTA awarding $130M in Low-No grants for zero-emission and low-emission transit buses and facilities

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University will receive funds to purchase zero-emission electric buses, which will replace diesel buses that have reached the end of their useful life. Iowa City Transit. City of Jackson. Missoula Urban Transportation District. The City of Nashua. New Jersey Transit Corporation.

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Iowa State engineer working to increase efficiency of electric motors by optimizing performance in preferred direction of rotation

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But multiply that number by the number of hybrid cars, let’s say, and you could get savings in the billions of dollars. Or, that could mean getting the same power with a smaller motor. I’m looking for a little bit of increase, maybe 5 percent or 1 percent. The potential here could be huge. —Dionysios Aliprantis.

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ARPA-E Awards Consortium $4.4M to Develop Next-Generation Magnets; Applications in Motors in Hybrids, EVs, Wind Turbines

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A consortium led by the University of Delaware won a $4.4 million grant from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) ( earlier post ) to develop high-performance, next-generation permanent magnet materials, with a 2x target increase over the state-of-the art magnetic energy density. Source: Univ.

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ISU researchers find corn yields with perennial cover crop equal to traditional farming; recommend Kentucky bluegrass

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Soil quality, water quality, and possibly even farm profits will all benefit by using a perennial cover crop on corn fields that allows for similar yields to traditional farming methods, according to Iowa State University research. And Kentucky bluegrass is out in every lawn in Iowa. Click to enlarge.

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

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The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000).

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). Another potential use of allowance value is to provide the general public a “dividend” related to the public’s having granted firms the right to make use of the waste-disposal services of the atmosphere through their emissions.

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