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JULY 22, 2012

Cost reduction potential of a polymer fuel cell system using an ITM Power membrane. Source: Carbon Trust. DOE says that 2011 costs are $49/kW. Click to enlarge. US Department of Energy (DOE) is targeting $30/kW. Source: US DOE. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2015

million from public and private sources and is on track to reach its investment target for 2015. The investment by ENYA will enable BESSTECH to expand its manufacturing partnerships to further advance market introduction of its low-cost, high-performance silicon-based anodes for lithium-ion battery applications.

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JUNE 7, 2013

FCTO anticipates that the FOA may include the following Topic Areas: Topic Area 1: Reducing the Cost of Compressed Hydrogen Storage Systems. Topic 1 will focus on the development of complete, low-cost, compressed hydrogen storage systems. kWh when manufactured in high volume; and.

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JULY 5, 2016

Whereas fuel cost used to be a major driver for fleet managers, the lowering of oil prices and the availability of low-cost natural gas has reduced this concern, Navigant notes. A major factor has always been the cost of battery packs. Medium- and heavy-trucks represent 4.3% of vehicles in the US, drive 9.3%

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

ULEV drivers will receive a 75% grant of up to £700 (US$1,081) towards installation from 13 April 2015. £8 Bidding for these schemes will open in May 2015. £9 The development of a zero emission electric bus with hydrogen fuel cell range extender at a fraction of the cost of the current generation of hydrogen buses (led by Magtec).

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. —Ren et al.

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MARCH 6, 2016

SOFC technology in principle offers the possibility of very high efficiency electrical power generation from either hydrocarbon fuels or hydrogen, and thus if adopted widely has the potential to significantly reduce primary energy consumption and the associated carbon dioxide emissions. 2015) Click to enlarge. Leah et al. Leah et al.

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MARCH 30, 2016

From an environmental and cost advantage, the Ballard report also concluded: Zenyatta graphite provides a clean carbon option for fuel cell components (i.e. If Zenyatta’s hydrothermal graphite can also be low cost compared to existing synthetic graphite, it will facilitate fuel cell cost reduction and market penetration.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Work that has been going on since then has been less focused on just the stack itself, and more on the mass production at low cost of fuel cell system, said Freese. When you see the cell itself, you go from these composite carbon cell plates that are more difficult to manufacture and maybe less robust in terms of assembly damage.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The selections were based upon an assessment of demonstrated progress in developing high-performance, low-cost SOFC technology. Key program goals, as defined by the Office of Fossil Energy and the US Office of Management and Budget, include: Cost of $175 per kilowatt (2007 dollars) for a minimum 40,000 hour fuel cell stack.

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JULY 23, 2015

Nanoporous silicon is considered an attractive next-generation anode material in lithium-ion batteries due to its much higher theoretical capacity and lower operating voltage than the commonly used graphitic carbon materials. It does not even change during the reduction to the final carbonized silicon network.

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MAY 7, 2014

FCTO is specifically interested in information on R&D needs and priorities concerning the development of low-cost fuel cell components and pathways leading to improved fuel cell performance and durability. Carbon-based catalyst supports have enabled the development of dispersed Pt catalysts and low Pt loaded MEAs.

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MAY 28, 2015

million in the 2015 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Awards. This quality control device will help to drive down the costs of fuel cells by reducing waste and improving the process efficiency of roll-to-roll manufacturing of polymer electrolyte membranes.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015. The first hydrogen TTO is focused on durable, high activity electrocatalyst with low platinum content and low cost for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell applications. Electric drive vehicle batteries.

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APRIL 5, 2016

In a patent application published 1 December 2015, Altex described the basic approach for its synthetic fuels processes. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., The Altex process does not require the intermediate conversion of the feedstock into synthesis gas or pyrolysis liquids, plus it does not require hydrogen.

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MARCH 22, 2015

However, while platinum may be acceptable for making jewelry and low volume specialty applications, it is too expensive for large-scale applications such as energy storage and conversion. Scientists have been working for years to develop low-cost replacements for platinum and other noble metals used in these devices. Resources.

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JULY 14, 2015

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, NETL issued two funding opportunities announcements (FOAs) to support programs that enable the development and deployment of this energy technology. DOE: $200,000 Non DOE: $91,152 Total: $291,152 (31% cost share). DOE: $200,000 Non DOE: $50,000 Total: $250,000 (20% cost share). Redox Power Systems, LLC.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Lithium-sulfur batteries offer a great deal of promise as a next-generation battery technology, with the natural abundance and low cost of sulfur, coupled with the high theoretical energy density of sulfur-based cathodes: 1675 mAh g ?1 The cathode consists of an activated carbon?sulfur Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 17, 2015

Regardless of acidic or basic conditions, Pt, along with its alloys, is the benchmark electrocatalyst that requires very small overpotentials to drive the reaction, whereas the scarcity and high cost of Pt hinder its large-scale use for H 2 production. … An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Communications.

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MARCH 18, 2013

For example, several production processes were considered for hydrogen and biofuels, and both conventional generation and low-GHG-emission scenarios were considered for electricity. For vehicles, these included weight reduction and improvements in rolling and aerodynamic resistance; for fuels, carbon capture and storage (CCS).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris. Stanford University. The Ohio State University. University of Washington. Columbia University.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to, development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g., Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 2 to 5 awards between $1M and $3M.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter nm-diameter CNTs traversing a large-area nonporous polysulfone film.

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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. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Cenovus anticipates achieving that growth at long term estimated average finding and development costs of approximately $8.00 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. per barrel.

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MARCH 19, 2011

The FOA specifies two distinct technical topics: Reducing the Cost of Hydrogen Storage Tanks; and New Materials Discovery. Reducing the Cost of Hydrogen Storage Tanks. An example of a possible solution is using fibers with mechanical strengths matching or exceeding the properties of aerospace quality carbon fiber (e.g.

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APRIL 29, 2015

At SAE 2015 World Congress last week, Toyota presented a set of four technical papers describing some of the technology innovations used in its production fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle Mirai ( earlier post ). The new fuel cell stack in Mirai increases the current density by a factor of 2.4 compared to the conventional FC stack.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Prior to the development of this FOA, the DOE issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding possible topics and held two pre-solicitation workshops ( one for Fuel Cell R&D and one for Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFC) and Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells (PAFC)). However, advances are required to reduce the cost of these fuel cell systems.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

The resulting catalyst offers a carbon nanonetwork architecture made of microporous nanofibers decorated by uniformly distributed high-density active sites. While non-precious metal catalysts (NPMCs) could be attractive low-cost alternatives, they suffer from significantly lower turnover frequency at the individual catalytic sites.

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MAY 17, 2012

Next-generation fuel cell work: costs. the next-gen MY 2015 F-Cell—will demonstrate capabilities competitive with other platforms, but cost remains an issue, according to an AFCC research needs analysis presented in 2009. Accordingly, Generation 3 fuel cell stacks will focus on cost reduction. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

The project was supported by the Carbon Trust as part of the Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge. Increasing power density is a critical factor in reducing the cost of fuel cells. Performance and full life cost modeling. This will enable costs to be projected and described in $/kW. cm 2 ) or air (>2.1W/cm cm 2 ) or air (>2.1W/cm

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JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. To restore balance we must protect the oxygen-producing biomass of Earth and reduce the amount of carbon emissions. But use of petroleum will continue.

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JUNE 23, 2015

An expensive barrier is needed to separate the two electrolytes, adding to the cost of the device, said graduate student Haotian Wang, lead author of the study. using only one material, making good preparations for the scale-up of water photolysis/electrolysis with high efficiency and low cost. —Wang et al.

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APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. Next: a carbon tax. Follow the money.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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