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MAY 18, 2012

Lab-scale experiments completed in October 2011 showed that the technology is cost effective and energy-efficient. Algae usually are grown under dilute cultivation conditions in a typical cell density of less than 1 gram per liter of water (999 parts water to 1 part algae).

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The DOE Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) Clean Coal Research Program (CCRP) is pursuing research, development and demonstration (RD&D) to decrease the cost of electricity (COE) and capture costs and increase base power plant efficiency, thereby reducing the amount of CO 2 that has to be captured and stored per unit of electricity generated.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Under present weather conditions, miscanthus and switchgrass utilized more water than maize for total seasonal evapotranspiration by approximately 58% and 36%, respectively. This is good for maximizing the amount of biomass that an acre of land can produce, Kumar said, but it also increases water use. Water is a significant issue.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The overall focus is to reduce the upfront costs of geothermal development as well as improve its effectiveness. Leveraging existing oil and gas infrastructure reduces the upfront costs of geothermal development. The Tensleep hot water was previously treated as a waste stream. million barrels of co-produced hot water.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Data for 2011 and 2012 are preliminary. Coal generation shares declined in some regions (such as the Southeast) in response to declining natural gas prices through 2010 and 2011, and then more broadly across the United States when gas prices dropped precipitously in the first half of 2012. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Geologic pumped hydroelectric storage works by pumping water to a reservoir behind a dam when electricity demand is low. When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Ruthenium and nickel are significantly less expensive than platinum, an the catalyst could reduce the cost of fuel cells. Professor Ogo announced his intention to work with Daihatsu on the development of a fuel cell vehicle based on this technology. Dalton Trans. 4747 10.1039/b807555g.

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

China bioethanol pump price for five enzyme loading scenarios in ( a ) 2011 with a 16¢ per liter (60.6¢ In 2011, China contributed 29% of world carbon dioxide emissions and therefore the country has a significant potential to influence the present and future global energy situation. Click to enlarge. —Littlewood et al.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Risk management specialist DNV (Det Norske Veritas) has developed a new pipeline concept— X-Stream (video)—that it says can significantly reduce the cost of a deep- and ultra-deepwater gas pipeline while still complying with the strictest safety and integrity regimes. —Asle Venås, DNV’s Global Pipeline Director.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

by subsidies that amounted to $523 billion in 2011, up almost 30% on 2010 and six times more than subsidies to renewables. The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Flash forward to 2011, when nearly everyone is online, Internet technology has become more accessible and fortunes continue to be made. We’ve seen a considerable reduction in solar panel costs, but that is exactly why there is reason to be optimistic. kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

He served in the Obama administration as the Founding Director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) (2009–2012), as the Acting Undersecretary for Energy (2011–2012), and as the Vice Chair of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (2014–2017). John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The study will be conducted from 2011-2016 and is expected to cost $5,645,168. Ongoing studies have highlighted Hanna Shoal as an important biological ecosystem between the Chukchi Sea and Arctic Ocean waters. In addition to conducting the research, Dartmouth College is contributing $102,909 to the cost of the study.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

An initial proposed plant using GEM*STAR’s with the Fischer-Tropsch process would produce 70 million gallons of diesel fuel per year at an estimated cost of production of less than $2.00 —Bowman and Johnson (2011). —Bowman and Johnson (2011). The Chinese ADS program was started in the first half of 2011.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Professor Neville Jackson, Ricardo’s Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, had presented an overview of the basics of such an approach at the SAE 2011 High Efficiency IC Engines Symposium in April. The charge air was compressed isothermally by spraying a large volume of water into the cylinder during compression to 100 bar.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Using wood chips as feedstock, the technology is projected to decrease process water consumption by up to 75% compared to producing corn ethanol while retaining all of the life-cycle carbon benefits inherent to cellulosic ethanol. The project involves the construction of a demonstration facility at a total cost of approximately C$17.0

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The objective of the new agreement is to build 10 UK plants dealing with 60,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year and to commission the first plant in London by end 2011. Suez Environment will commission the first of the plants by the end of 2011 in the greater London area. A hat-tip to Harold!).

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The network has two unique features: 1) it allows for high capacitance (up to 400 F/g) energy storage in a simple film configuration without the need of high-surface-area nanostructures; 2) it is unstable in water, but becomes extremely stable in electrolyte with high ionic strength. Wh per US dollar for lithium ion batteries.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The researchers concluded that all of these biofuel mandates combined would reduce fossil fuel use by less than 2.5%, or the same amount that a gas tax increase of 25 cents per gallon could achieve, but at an estimated cost of $67 billion compared with a cost of $6 billion with a gas tax. Jaeger, William K. and Egelkraut, Thorsten M.

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MARCH 11, 2011

In the conventional Thermal Swing Regeneration process, the gas must first be treated with a solution of chemical sorbents that are dissolved in water. In the new work, Koech and colleagues tested how well they could swing hydrogen sulfide through a series of processing liquids without using water or heat. Koech, James E.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Commission’s funding is the cost-share for the company’s $6.2 The total cost of the project is $12.4 Seeo is targeting the production of a total of 1,000 cells with optimized power and energy by December 2011, with final pack design by June 2012. Seeo is contributing $5.6 million for the project. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team earlier published LCA results finding that terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental life cycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location. environmental burdens (net energy use, water use, and GHG) per VKT.

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JUNE 15, 2013

MARAD will not fund more than 50% of the total cost of the project. MARAD recently completed a study—reported in the February 2013 “ Status of the US-Flag Great Lakes Water Transportation Industry ”—that focused on the feasibility of using natural gas on the Great Lakes as well as converting existing steamships. (In

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MARCH 22, 2011

While platinum, which represents at least a quarter of the cost of fuel cells, currently sells for about $65,000 per kilogram, the researchers say their activated carbon nanotubes cost about $100 per kilogram. Journal of the American Chemical Society doi: 10.1021/ja1112904.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The prohibitive cost of platinum for catalyzing the ORR has hampered the widespread use of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Johnston, and Piotr Zelenay (2011) High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Derived from Polyaniline, Iron, and Cobalt. Performance of an H 2 -air fuel cell with a Pt cathode (0.2 Source: Wu et al.

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MAY 24, 2011

Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011. The “ Electric Vehicles—Land, Sea & Air Europe 2011 ” conference and exhibition will take place in Stuttgart, Germany 27–28 June. They will sell for up to 65% more than the price of conventional buses but still have lower total cost of ownership over life.

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More to the point, the cost of electric vehicles will only decline in real dollar terms over time, and adoption should continue to rise in a non-linear fashion. Oil prices will be set by the marginal cost of production, and recent efficiency gains notwithstanding, marginal costs have generally increased over time.

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JULY 17, 2011

Endophytes reduced water consumption by 20–30% and increased growth rate, reproductive yield, and biomass of greenhouse grown plants. 2011) Increased Fitness of Rice Plants to Abiotic Stress Via Habitat Adapted Symbiosis: A Strategy for Mitigating Impacts of Climate Change. Redman RS, Kim YO, Woodward CJDA, Greer C, Espino L, et al.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Water production. Clean water shipped to agriculture (regulated).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The plan focuses on overcoming three key challenges: the relatively high cost of offshore wind energy; technical challenges surrounding installation, operations, and grid interconnection; and. If no significant impacts are identified, BOEMRE could offer leases in these Mid-Atlantic areas as early as the end of 2011 or early 2012.

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Charged spoke with Tritium Chief Sales Officer David Nicholl about building cost-effective EV charging sites that provide top-notch service to drivers. Charged : When we started covering Tritium in 2011, the company was making a controller people used to build custom EVs. That’s the elements like water and dust.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

The catalyst requires the presence of water, allowing producers to use dilute—i.e., less expensive—bio-ethanol rather than having to purify it first, potentially keeping costs lower and production times faster. A paper on the work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. doi: 10.1021/ja204235v.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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Deloitte forecasts that by 2022, the costs of ownership for EVs will be comparable to their combustion-engine counterparts. In going from 3,394 charging stations in 2011 to over 63,000 in early 2019 , the options for “refueling” electric vehicles have proliferated at lightning speed.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The replacement of the organic electrolytes found in these commercial lithium-ion cells with an aqueous electrolyte would resolve the safety concerns surrounding these devices, note Yi Cui and his colleagues, as well as lowering the cost of Li-ion batteries. Colin Wessells, Fabio La Mantia, Heather Deshazer, Robert A.

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The cost of shifting from rescue operations to border enforcement may be harder journeys for migrants and the deaths of some. Following Spain’s SIVE experience, in 2011. While migrants and traffickers fight over the cost of their crossings, European entities have fought over how to stop migrant crossings.

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