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The article focuses on U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programs including Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA). It mentions that ARID seeks to develop the dry-cooling technologies for thermal power plants and TERRA aims to develop technologies to increase bioenergy crop breeding. Also presents views of Dr. Cheryl Martin, acting director of ARPA-E, on the same. more...

The article informs about the reinstatement of reporting of water consumption in the thermoelectric power production by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). It mentions that a method for collecting location and cooling-equipment data is presented in a report of the USGS. It states that the method plays an important role in the National Water Census, a USGS research program on national water availability. more...