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$85 Billion For Algal and Biofuel Research

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Creating biofuels from algae isn’t new, but the recent announcement of $85 billion in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy should make it more widespread.  The funding package will also promote the development of other advanced biofuels, but none of it will be used to create cellulosic ethanol.  What’s so great about algal fuel [...]

Ford To Boost Vehicle Electrification By 2020

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Ford just got a nice $5.9 billion chunk of change from the Department of Energy to make their vehicles more fuel efficient, and it looks as if their plans are a bit more ambitious than previously thought.  The original plan for Ford was to use the money to take 13 of their existing models and [...]


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