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SLAC, Stanford team develops new catalyst for water-splitting for renewable fuels production; 100x more efficient than other acid-stable catalysts

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New OER catalysts for use in acidic environments could have a direct impact on improving polymer electrolyte membrane–based water electrolyzers, a recent technology that overcomes many of the disadvantages of conventional alkaline electrolyzers but in which OER catalysts are primarily restricted to IrO x. —Thomas Jaramillo.

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. Of that, $26.5 VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000.

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

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To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. First Solar Inc. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania).

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Duke Energy , Prius by Hymotion and Advanced Vehicle Research Center, July 2007, (Charlotte, NC). Contact Toronto Atmospheric Fund Ontario Ministry of the Environment , Prius, Hymotion, August 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Advanced Energy , Prius by Hymotion and Advanced Vehicle Research Center, July 2007, (Raleigh, NC).

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