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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. But solar is just the opening gambit. They said, ‘We don’t know.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). Total DOE award: $15,000,000.

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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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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Newton, Massachusetts).

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BMW Announces National Adaptive EV Charging System Expansion

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BMW has announced it is expanding its ChargeForward incentive program to drivers of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles living in the contiguous United States. That’s progressive-corporate speak for charging vehicles when the demand for electricity is lower to ensure less energy is wasted.

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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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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. North Carolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach North Carolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. Electric Vehicle: Thermal Storage Using Hybrid Vapor.

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