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    Auto X Prize wins $5.5 million from DOE for its own prize-giving contest     1257202980

    While the Automotive X Prize's raison d'être is to give out money to the best high-mileage vehicles and business plans in the $10 million contest, as the saying goes, it takes money to give out money. To that end, the AXP announced today that it has received $5.5 million from the U.S. ...

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    DOE announces $786 million for third-generation biofuels     1241544420

    Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a huge, $786.5 million program to speed development and commercialization of biofuels today. The money comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is intended for the following specific projects: $480 Million Solicitation for ...

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    DOE's alternative fuel national locator map now available     1215450840

    The U.S. Department of Energy today took the wraps off of an online Alternative Fuel Station Locator that should make it a bit easier to find the right fuel if you need something other than gasoline or diesel. Just put in your address, the fuel you're looking for, how wide a radius you'd like the ...

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    DOE finds $130m for your advanced fuel cell tech     1212004380

    The U.S. Department of Energy has found some money behind the grant funding couch - $130 million to be exact - and wants to hand it over to people working on developing advanced fuel cell technologies. The couch in this case is the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative which, unsurprisingly given ...

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    The numbers are in: 6.48 billion gallons of ethanol made in the U.S. in 2007     1205366760

    Photo by MikeGroft. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.The weekly email from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) arrived today and it contains one important number: 6.48 billion gallons. That's how much ethanol - almost all of it ...

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    EDTA Conference: kick off session is 99 percent unbelievably upbeat     1164827520

    EDTA president Brian Wynne officially opened this week's conference with a moment of silence for David Hermance, an engineer for Toyota who recently died while flying his plane off the coast of California. After that quiet moment, the message from Wynne and all of the other speakers at this ...

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    National rundown of waste-to-energy projects in America, courtesy of EERE     1163614140

    You through with that? If so, there's an energy producer out there who could use it.The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has provided us all with a write up of the many projects in the United States that turn waste products into energy. You can read the details here, or just ...

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    DOE verdict: Ethanol is net energy positive     1158010380

    AutoWeek reports that in an attempt to silence ethanol critics the Department of Energy (DOE) points to a study done by Argonne National Laboratory and officially stated that ethanol yields more energy than is used to produce it. More specifically, the study calculates that it takes 740,000 British ...

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    32 operational hydrogen fueling stations open in America, more planned     1149200460

    Like I said, it must be hydrogen week around here. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy subsection sent out an email yesterday announcing, among other things, that there are now 32 hydrogen fueling stations open in America, and 19 more are on the way. The growing ...

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