US and China team up to fund clean tech university research

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Joint research programme offers funding to support development of electric vehicles and clean coal technology

The agreement between the US and China to co-operate on the development of critical clean technologies has delivered some of its first tangible results this week after US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced...

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