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A Brief History of Energy Boondoggles
Daniel Fisher 11.24.08, 12:00 AM ET  Forbes.com
The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $57.5 billion over the past 30 years researching and developing clean energy technologies. In all that time the nation’s energy portfolio has barely budged. Fossil fuel as a share of our energy supply has [...]

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U.S. Department of Energy to Invest up to $13.7 Million for Breakthrough Solar Energy Projects
11 Projects selected from universities across the country
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that DOE will invest up to $13.7 million, over three years (Fiscal Years 2008 – 2010), for 11 university-led projects that will focus [...]

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Much of the innovation in exchanges and derivatives has come from Chicago - not New York or London. Once best known for derivatives in farm products - cattle, hogs etc. _ Chicago leads the rest of the world in innovating and dominating in the trading of derivative products(options, futures, commodities etc), symbolised by the emergence of the Chicago [...]

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