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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Several reasons underpin slow growth in the commercialization of biofuels, according to the EIA: Difficulties obtaining financing in the aftermath of the debt crisis; Technology scale-up difficulties at startup companies; and. Strategic corporate shifts because of increased availability of low-cost natural gas.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The pilot plant is expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2011 and marks a major milestone in the commercialization of Avantium’s technology. Over the past years we have made tremendous progress to develop a low-cost production process to convert biomass into YXY building blocks.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Cenovus’s Greater Pelican Region also includes the current Pelican Lake polymer flood operation in the Wabiskaw formation and a potential future project in the Grosmont carbonate formation. It currently has about 50 R&D projects underway and plans to implement at least one new commercial technology each year.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Polymer composites are too expensive for body structures in large volume vehicle production and difficult to recycle. However, the properties and cost of current light alloy materials, and the associated manufacturing processes, are already inhibiting progress, according to the LATEST2 team.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

The Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) Program is awarding more than $8 million to eight R&D projects on lithium battery anodes. BATT is funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle Technologies and is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of its Carbon Cycle 2.0 initiative.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

million to projects to to accelerate research and development of new vehicle technologies. Area Of Interest (AOI) 1: Development of Low-Cost, High-Strength Automotive Aluminum Sheet. For the purposes of this AOI, a carbon fiber composite is defined as a composite that combines carbon fiber with polymer resin. ≥ 35%. ≤

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JULY 3, 2010

The award was one of six to teams awarded through a new joint program teaming up investigators from both schools in the areas of renewable energy and biomedical technologies. The Collaborative Research Program in Biomedical Technologies will spur technological advances that improve human health.

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MAY 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) issued four funding opportunities (FOAs) totaling up to $78 million to support early-stage bioenergy research and development under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) at DOE invests in R&D for developing bio?derived

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MARCH 17, 2010

Graphene—carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick—now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Pennsylvania. March 18, 2010. No one else has ever made GOFs, to the best of our knowledge.

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