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Obama Signs the Stimulus: What’s in Store for Clean Energy
Earth2Tech — ... with the stroke of President Obama’s pen on the $787 billion stimulus bill this afternoon at the solar-powered Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Now begins a new round of jockeying — this time among companies — for the loans, grants and incentives awarded to their industry. Below is a look at key pieces of the final package for clean energy, from the $43 billion allocated for energy to the $111 billion that will go toward infrastructure and science. Clean Power Grants: One of the biggest wins for clean energy ...

What can government do for open source
Open Source — ... what Sun can do for government but what government can do for Sun. A commitment to open source would give Sun hardware a big leg-up on procurement. By the numbers Sun is still a hardware company and McNealy its chief salesman. What’s interesting to me is that some in the White House already understand the power of open source. Dries Buytaert confirmed 10 days ago that the Recovery.Gov Web site is based on Drupal, the open source CMS. (The illustration is from that site.)  Given the site’s similarity in look-and-feel to the official ...