Lockheed Martin executives want to scale the technology up to 100 megawatts in subsequent ventures, producing the same amount of electricity in a year that 1.3 million barrels of oil could while generating virtually no fuel costs or greenhouse gases.

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Longer term, by leveraging shale gas infrastructure, biogas is poised to capitalize on a free ride to widespread scale up, a notion unheard of in many clean energy technology circles.

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Bring the two together and economies of scale, coupled with technology fed in from a tie-up with Japan's Mitusbishi, would ensure success.

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These announcements complimented a large-scale expansion of the "Power Up" program, which creates and staffs technology centers that poor children can use to improve their understanding and use of computers, the Internet and educational software.

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