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How The Department Of Energy Plans To Wean The U.S. Off Rare Earth Metals

The DOE's latest round of funding focuses on finding alternatives to rare earth metals, which are found in everything from wind turbines to computer hard drives.READ»

Government Funding for Clean Tech Spurs Private Investment

Attention and seed funding from the government have triggered a wave of private investment in innovative green tech companies. READ»

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Cash For Kites: Government Gives $10 Million to Green Pioneers

ARPA-E is the U.S. Department of Energy program that awards grants to "moonshot" green technologies. The latest round goes to offbeat ideas like cryogenic carbon capture, nano-magnets, and some very large kites.READ»

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5 Futuristic Metals That Are More Metal Than Apple's Fancy Metal

Apple grabbed the exclusive rights this week for amorphous, non-crystalline metal alloys owned by Liquidmetal Technologies as part of what is presumably a plan to make even stronger, lighter electronic devices. But Apple doesn't own metal. READ»

How Much Green Innovation Does $100 Million Buy?

Somewhere, Al Gore is smiling his sorta creepy but still endearing smile.READ»

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ARPA-E Program Gives Out $100 Million to "Moonshot" Green Tech

This past October, the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) program gave $151 million to so-called "moonshot" green tech companies that are working on projects that might not otherwise have a ...READ»

DOE Gives $151 Million Boost to Early-Stage Green Tech

The Obama administration has been good to the renewable energy industry, with the Department of Energy announcing in July that it will give up to $30 billion in loan guarantees to renewable energy projects. Now the DOE is going out ...READ»