We're hot - and cool

Posted: September 21, 2010

WE HAVE to admit to a case of "stimulus fatigue" caused by endless releases from the federal government announcing multimillion-dollar grants awarded to this and other cities.

That fatigue explains how we may have missed the significance of one such recent award: $129 million that will create an energy-innovation hub at Philadelphia's Navy Yard. The money, from the Department of Energy, will go to a research consortium led by Penn State, and including the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel and other institutions. They will use the unique qualities of the Navy Yard to help create green-energy technologies. The hub is expected to create 1,200 jobs immediately, and another 100,000 jobs in the next decade.

The grant process was highly competitive, and although there is no official tally on our competition, we know that Pennsylvania (and Philadelphia) beat out the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research group in New York, and the University of California at Berkeley to name a few. So the energy breakthroughs that could come about from this award will improve not only the way we heat our buildings, but also how cool we consider ourselves, and our place in the world. *

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