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General Fusion and UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announce collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy

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Ultimately, the company expects the projects will support its efforts to provide low-cost and low-carbon energy to the electricity grid. The demonstration machine is to designed to demonstrate General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology, creating fusion conditions in a power-plant-relevant environment.

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Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist vessels going battery-electric; ABB power and propulsion

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The Maid of the Mist’s conversion to an all-electric fleet is a bold move that shows the world we take our commitment to lowering carbon emissions seriously. — Gil C. Quiniones, President and CEO at the New York Power Authority. The new Maid of the Mist vessels build on a $70-million revitalization of Niagara Falls State Park.

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Nissan cut CO2 emissions 22.4% over past decade

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Success in reducing emissions, promoting zero-emission vehicles and saving energy at facilities has made Nissan the highest-performing automotive company tracked by the Carbon Disclosure Project, which works with thousands of companies to tackle climate change.

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PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

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PARC was founded in 1970 at Xerox; in 2002, it was incorporated as a wholly owned independent research and development subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, providing services to external customers as well as to Xerox. Carbon-neutral liquid fuel. Energy Environ. the Alto), is building a portfolio of research in the cleantech area.

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EPA researchers suggest US electricity consumers should be willing to pay 2-4x for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to health impacts

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2002), respectively. In a paper in press in the journal Environment International , Ben Machol and Sarah Rizk quantify the economic value of health impacts associated with PM 2.5 The economic value of health impacts is approximately an order of magnitude larger than estimates of the social cost of carbon for fossil fuel electricity.

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PNNL study of metabolic processes paves way to optimize lipids production in yeast Y. lipolytica

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This study builds a platform for efforts to engineer the yeast to optimize lipid accumulation and maximize the yield of carbon-based products. A 2002 study (Ruiz-Herrera and Sentandreu) proposed that pH is the most important factor regulating the dimorphic transition. lipolytica. Because lipids from Y. A 2014 study (Bellou et al.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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