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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E will hold a workshop on “Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels: Meeting Today’s Energy Needs by Maximizing Photon Capture” on 2 December 2010, in Arlington, Va. There will also be an optional morning session on 3 December 2010 at the same venue.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

In support of the biomass fractionator, the company is also developing a range of one-step catalytic conversion processes which mate with the fractionator’s output gas streams to produce products such as eBTX (high octane gasoline), synthetic diesel and proprietary ultra-high crop yield “super” fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The acquisition combines the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid waste) into ethanol and high value co-products.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

The objective of this topic is to develop an entirely new paradigm for the production of liquid fuels that could overcome the challenges associated with current technologies. Although photosynthetic routes show promise, overall efficiencies remain low. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. We compare externality and oil consumption costs to the costs of owning and operating these vehicles and to subsidies designed to encourage their adoption. Michalek et al. Click to enlarge. —Michalek et al.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. Perkins suggests that the partnership with Freightliner may expand to move into step chassis and some of the other products that it sells, such as in the trolley market or RV chassis. to produce LPG as a byproduct of gasoline production.

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JULY 16, 2009

SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. In the most recent study, the prototype battery was replaced with a production-model battery. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins.

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JUNE 10, 2011

An interim report with some of this study’s major findings and recommendations was released in June 2010. High-level findings of the MIT study include: There are abundant supplies of natural gas in the world, and many of these supplies can be developed and produced at relatively low cost. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 18, 2013

In response to a Congressional mandate in 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) convened the Committee on Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels to assess the potential for vehicle and fuel technology options to achieve substantial reductions in petroleum use and GHG emissions by 2050 relative to 2005. Source: NRC. Background.

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MAY 4, 2018

These include: BioEnergy Engineering for Products Synthesis (BEEPS) (up to $28 million) ( DE-FOA-0001916 ). lignin, CO 2 , and biosolids), improving organic and inorganic catalysts to increase conversion efficiency and decrease costs, and creating high-value performance-advantaged bioproducts to allow for more profitable biorefineries.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Scatter plot of production cost of cellulosic ethanol and percentage GHG savings relative to energy equivalent gasoline over simulation period. Production cost of ethanol is annualized over the simulation period. Average parameter values are used for determining production costs. Credit: ACS, Dwivedi et al.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

million in cash and/or shares of REG common stock consideration for achievement of certain milestones over the next five years related to the development and commercialization of products from LS9’s technology. The resulting catalysts selectively convert a diversity of feedstocks to a final product in a single-step fermentation process.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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JULY 30, 2010

Researchers at LS9 have discovered an alkane biosynthesis pathway in cyanobacteria; i.e., a metabolic pathway that produces alkanes—the major hydrocarbon constituents of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel—in a direct, simple conversion from sugar. del Cardayre (2010) Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes. Schirmer et al. Earlier post.).

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JULY 3, 2012

The electrospray technique, which has been patented, copes with any fuel cell size from laboratory to marketable dimensions and could be used for low-cost industrial production, the researchers said. A fuel cell with the MEA developed by these researchers has been operating for more than 1,000 hours without interruption.

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JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 4, 2010

The design of the engineered catalyst is influenced by the desired product and the production process. Metabolic engineering is the practice of altering genes and metabolic pathways within a cell or microorganism to increase its production of a specific substance. ways to maximize yields, titers, and productivities.

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MAY 16, 2010

With recent work improving the high yield conversion of biomass-derived carbohydrates to DMF ( earlier post , earlier post ), there is growing interest in using this as a bio-based substitute for petroleum-derived gasoline. Therefore, further tests concerning the speciation of emissions for DMF are underway. Zhong et al.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. This AOI is to address two major technical gaps in the performance of automotive aluminum alloys: Low strength among cost competitive automotive sheet alloys such as 5xxx and 6xxx series. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYDs plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. "Its a completely different business model."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. Lead batts are around 98% recycled.

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