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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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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Massachusetts: $2,500,000.

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

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Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Sparkz (Knoxville, Tennessee). IP Group, Inc.

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. E.ON’s Mr. Ewert says one winning technology could be biogas, which can be fermented from farm and domestic waste or even sewage, and then be piped through existing gas networks. Build the damn cars and watch us change our habits.

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