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Beacon Power Gets U.S. Energy Loan After 3 Years, 96 Forms – Bloomberg.com
Beacon Power Corp., a maker of energy- storing flywheels, completed 96 forms filling seven three-ring binders in its effort to get a U.S.-backed loan.
The Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, company with $68,000 in revenue last year says it spent more than $1 million pursuing federal guarantees for $42 million in financing to install its flywheels in New York state. After three years, Beacon got an answer last week: application approved.
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Urine turned into hydrogen fuel
US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine – a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater.
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Oil baron’s wind farm project hits doldrums – CNN.com
Billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving plans to build the world’s largest wind farm. He says the capital markets will not support his plans to build the world’s largest wind farm.
The chairman of BP Capital Management announced Tuesday that his plans for the Pampa Wind Project, designed to generate 4,000 megawatts of electricity using thousands of wind turbines, is on hold.
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Climate Progress » Blog Archive » NSIDC: Arctic “melt season in high gear”
The National Snow and Ice Data Center has a July 6 update on Arctic ice melt:
The Arctic is now in the midst of the summer melt season. Through most of June, ice extent tracked below the 1979 to 2000 average, and slightly above the levels recorded during June 2007.
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