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JANUARY 6, 2010

The bill mandated ambitious production targets of 9 billion gallons of biofuels a year in 2008, rising to 36 billion gallons a year by 2022. Based on the latest available US Government Accountability Office data (2008) the US government spent $4 billion in subsidies to replace about 2% of the US gasoline supply. Lifting the $0.54

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Another key characteristic of the niobium market is its highly concentrated supply. The Award Seminars were added to the annual Award event in 2008. The three largest producers—Brazil’s CBMM, CMOC and Canada’s Magris —have a combined 97% market share.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Better supply chain security: When automakers incorporate higher levels of scrap back into their supply chain via a closed-loop recycling partnership, they decrease their exposure to volatilities in the open aluminum scrap market.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Eight university teams will take part in the competition at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt. Taking basic software supplied by Audi as the starting point, the teams have created their own software architecture to process the sensor data, interpret situations correctly and control the car accordingly. University of Bremen.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

—has supplied the first round of funding for the new company. Prieto (2008) Direct Electrodeposition of Cu 2 Sb for Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes. Prieto, who is the chief scientific officer for the new company, expects to demonstrate the first prototype of the battery by early next year. Long, Bruce Dunn, Debra R. Mosby and Amy L.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

MW installation at the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) campus. The CSUF installation also includes solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to maximize the university’s sustainability efforts. Separately, AECOM Technology Corporation and REC Solar unveiled a 1.16 The funding, approved Jan.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Council of Canadian Academies (2008). Estimates vary on the amount of energy that could be produced from methane hydrate worldwide, but the potential is huge.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The BMW Group works together with worldwide partners throughout the value chain, ranging from scientific institutions and universities to established companies and start-ups. The BMW Group has been analyzing battery cells since 2008, allowing it to draw on many years of experience and, as a result, extensive expertise in the field.

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MAY 14, 2018

The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. The paper is published in Nature Communications.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In 2008, Woskov began intensively studying whether the approach could be an affordable improvement on mechanical drilling. So it wasn’t much of a jump to make the connection that if we can melt steel chambers and vaporize them, we could melt rocks.” They can retire the boiler, and we’ll give them 500º C steam on-site.”

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Private industry and DOE’s national laboratories have already helped to reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. The University of Texas’s Center for Electromechanics, Electric Vehicles International, Hydrogenics USA and Valence Technology will also participate in this project.

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JULY 29, 2018

Considering electrification, autonomy and sharing (the “Three Revolutions”), a team from Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley projects that electricity use from light duty vehicle (LDV) transport will likely be in the 570–1140?TWh TWh range—13–26%—respectively, of total electricity demand in 2050.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

At SYKE’s Marine Research Centre, the use of planktonic algae as a source of bioenergy has been studied since 2008 during several national and international projects. Neste Oil is already working with a number of international research institutions, universities, and companies in the algae research area.

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MARCH 15, 2024

In the 2008 film Iron Man , he changes his ways because he learns that his company’s specialized weapons are being used by terrorists. Yet drones are also being used to deliver critical medical supplies in hard-­to-­reach areas, track the health of forests, and help scientists like Roger Payne monitor and advocate for at-­risk species.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Boeing-COMAC technology center is working with China-based universities and research institutions to expand knowledge in areas such as sustainable aviation biofuels and air traffic management that improve commercial aviation's efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. COMAC was held on May 11th, 2008.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems designed and tested the novel compressor design with funding from the DOE-supported Stripper Well Consortium , an industry-driven organization whose members include natural gas and petroleum producers, service companies, industry consultants, universities, and industrial trade organizations. million homes.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Long, however, hopes his business will help better define a supply chain in Michigan. in June 2008 (at the time of the study). in June 2008 (at the time of the study). The company has vetted more than 500 Michigan suppliers that could machine turbine parts. This would reduce Michigan’s unemployment rate to 7.5%

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APRIL 5, 2023

The IEEE Fellow was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for “pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry.” Intel cofounder Gordon E. Moore , the man behind Moore’s Law, died on 24 March at the age of 94.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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MAY 26, 2015

Nisshinbo has supplied Ballard with compression molded bipolar flow field plates for more than 10-years, for use in the manufacture of PEM fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) used in various market applications.

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JULY 30, 2009

Don Paul, who retired from Chevron as vice president and chief technology officer and currently directs the Energy Institute at the University of Southern California (USC), has joined algae biofuels company LiveFuels, Inc.’ scientific advisory board.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved funding to advance further the development of its pioneering 42 MW peak microgrid and expand electric vehicle charging at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). million award to increase its previously awarded funding of $1,394,298 for the university’s microgrid.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The GMR is the first study to assess the global performance of the transport sector and the progress made toward four main objectives: universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility. from 2008–2012. from 2008–2012. Some of the other key findings from the report include: Universal access. —GMR 2017.

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MARCH 22, 2010

to supply the Li-ion batteries for the Ram PHEV test fleet. More than 21 Chrysler Group partners across the US, including utility companies, government agencies and Universities will independently test the Ram PHEV and provide valuable data for the advancement of the technology. Chrysler Group has partnered with Electrovaya Inc.

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Over 1,000 miles away, the blast knocked out electricity supply in parts of Hawaii and disrupted telephone service for a period of time. Decades later, the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack determined as early as 2008 that the U.S. In an interview, USGS geophysicist Jeffrey J.

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APRIL 9, 2010

Shortly after releasing the Roadmap, the Coalition commissioned the Interindustry Forecasting Project at the University of Maryland and Keybridge Research to study the long-term economic effects of their policy proposals. By 2030, the typical US household’s annual income would rise by $2,763 (2008 dollars). Federal Revenues.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

In announcing their partnership, FPL Group and Duke Energy called for a wide variety of organizations to commit to greening their vehicle fleets, including corporations, governments, universities and other agencies. Currently, the only near-term options for available PEV supply are sedans, minivans, vans and a few bucket trucks.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

In addition to supplying technology to Novolyte, Foosung will invest approximately $30 million in the joint venture and contribute a future lithium salt plant. —John Televantos, a Partner at Arsenal Capital, an investor in Novolyte since 2008. Foosung Co., Novolyte is contributing its energy storage business to the joint venture.

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MARCH 27, 2013

EnerG2’s proprietary freeze-drying process to make its specialized carbon material was developed at the University of Washington. The company’s ISO 9001:2008-certified facility in Albany is already producing advanced carbon materials at a multi-ton scale and is supplying commercial quantities to a growing, global customer base.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled. We seem to be tantalizingly close to the beginning of a hydrogen transition.

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JUNE 22, 2009

The BioForming process can speed the use of non-food plant sugars to replace petroleum as an energy source, thus both decreasing dependence on fossil hydrocarbons and minimizing the impact on global water and food supplies. Also in 2008, Shell and Virent announced their collaboration. The BioForming platform is near commercialization.

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MARCH 27, 2009

In November 2008, the German federal government announced plans to take strong measures towards electric and hybrid vehicles in the next ten years, with the goal of putting one million electric (EV) and plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) vehicles onto Germany’s roads by 2020. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

A robust US battery industry will require the US to have a solid manufacturing base that can readily accept innovations in process and technology from our universities, small companies, and national laboratories, converting them into a sustainable competitive advantage domestically and globally.

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MAY 2, 2012

The production technology was developed through laboratory collaboration between the University of Bergen, Norway, and ConocoPhillips. The prior longest-duration field test of methane hydrate extraction via depressurization was six days (Japan-Canada 2007/2008 Mallik well testing program). —Secretary Chu.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

—Beverly Law, a professor of global change forest science at Oregon State University. In these regions, microwave satellite observations indicate that soil moisture decreased from 1998 to 2008. A recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply. Running, E. Tomelleri, N.

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