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US DOE announces 3 consortia for $125M US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center; solar, second-generation biofuels and buildings

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These consortia—led in theUS by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Florida, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)—will bring together experts from national laboratories, universities, and industry in both the US and India. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. Moser Baer India Ltd.;

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. The charging infrastructure is an integral part of PSTA's long-term battery electric bus program. CUMTD will produce hydrogen on-site partially from renewable sources. City of Fairfield. The Jacksonville Transportation Authority.

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How To Make Sure EV Infrastructure Is Energy Efficient

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These questions present real challenges that must be part of any serious policymaking and manufacturing changes. To curb these emissions even further, we need to build more power plants and facilities that create and use renewable energy rather than fossil fuels. Is the battery-recycling process as safe and efficient as it could be?

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. Washington University in St. These compact.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids ( IONICS ). grid, transforming domestic energy production. Washington University in St.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. When I asked him how he got one, he told me that he went around to the various laboratories, collected parts that people owed him, and put it together himself.” Pake, a longtime friend, to run it. Mountain View, Calif.—began

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