New grants for battery research
Cornell University will get $27.5 million in federal and state money over five years to do research on materials for high-storage batteries and other energy-storage devices, state officials announced Thursday.
“The funders recognized the strengths we have as an institution,’’ said Hector Abruna, director of the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute.
Abruna said the money will pay for about 30 researchers, and should also generate as many as 70 other jobs.
The grants to Cornell are part of a $95.5 million grant to five institutions in the state from the federal stimulus package. The state is contributing another $10.5 million.
The State University at Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, Columbia University and the General Electric Global Research Center in Schenectady were also awarded grants.
Cornell and Brookhaven got the largest grants. Columbia got $17.6 million, Stony Brook $18.7 million and GE $16.5 million.
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We need to build the batteries and that means “FACTORIES” and a climate that supports them and not taxes them so they build the factories in other states.
VJ Machiavelli
NO MORE SCHUMER
NO MORE PELOSI
NO MORE RANGEL
NO MORE ENGEL AND HIS MILLION DOLLAR HOME IN MARYLAND
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