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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater).

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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It is generous to say that an acre of Iowa can provide 12,500 miles per year at a cost of 10 cents each. Consider the venerable oil drilling donkey, which cycles once every 7 or 8 seconds. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. What this country needed was a good 5-cent kWh, and now we have it.

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

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Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Water (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE.

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Obama continues push for green revolution

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The President spoke in Iowa at a wind energy factory about the bloated US energy consumption which was inflicting an unacceptable loss on the economy and the climate. He bemoaned the fact that America has less than five per cent of the world’s population but accounts for a quarter of its demand for oil.

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