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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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The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Massachusetts: $1,500,000.

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24M emerges from stealth mode with new semi-solid Li-ion cell; <$100/kWh by 2020

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Those inactive materials are expensive and wasteful. —“Semi-Solid Lithium Rechargeable Flow Battery”. The company now employs more than 50 people and runs a fully automated manufacturing line from its 32,000 square foot facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mihai Duduta, Bryan Ho, Vanessa C. Brunini, W. 201100152.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks. Li-Air Battery : Development Of Ultra-high Specific Energy Rechargeable Lithium/Air Batteries Based On Protected Lithium Metal Electrodes.

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

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Watertown, Massachusetts). Newton, Massachusetts). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Newton, Massachusetts). Development of Rechargeable Energy Dense Long Cycle-life Zinc/Copper Oxide Batteries, $250,000.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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PolyPlus is also developing a lithium-air rechargeable battery with very high energy density, and is also working on a new generation of lithium-sulfur batteries aimed at the electric vehicle space. This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. Difficult Materials.

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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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University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Massachusetts. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. Massachusetts Institute.

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