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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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As a result, the United States will soon have the installed capacity to produce up to the 15.0 Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia. Advanced biofuels.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. installation; and develop and conduct training programs regarding. The Mid-America Collaborative for Alternative Fuels Implementation project will focus diversifying transportation fuel options in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Gas Technology.

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

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). General Motors will develop a shape memory alloy (SMA) energy recovery device that will convert waste heat from car engines to electricity. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. More than 60% of all US energy lost is in the form of waste heat from power plants, industrial processes, and vehicles.

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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. Nebraska – Lincoln). installed on walls or roof-tops. materials, manufacturing, shipping and installation, and. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. photosynthesis, the process used by green plants to capture. light energy.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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By the way Boones plan covers: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. link] V2G: Smart grids meet electric vehicles [link] Recently one of their smart products was spotted on planet green for the episode where they installed a wind turbine. You just need Java installed. The SEL 547.

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