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BMW i Ventures invests in Prometheus Fuels; CO2 air-capture and conversion to carbon-neutral gasoline

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Founded by Rob McGinnis, a Yale Engineering PhD with multiple successful startups under his belt, Prometheus launched from Y Combinator in early 2019. The conversion of CO 2 to fuels in these inexpensive water-based systems has shown high faradic efficiencies for reduction of CO 2. Aqueous CO 2 electrolysis with base-metal catalysts.

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NSF awards $2M to Rice U collaboration to explore direct conversion of CO2 into fuels

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Since joining the Rice faculty in 2019, Wang has developed a catalytic reactor that uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock. The NSF grant will address challenges that remain before the renewable strategy can be applied practically on a commercial scale. We address both materials-level design and device-level engineering.

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Lufthansa, ETH Zürich, Climeworks & Synhelion to cooperate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels; CO2 capture & solar thermochemical conversion

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Climeworks direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste. The focus is on sustainable fuels based on residual materials, woody biomass and renewable electrical energy (Power-to-Liquid). Lufthansa had signed a Letter of Intent with the Heide refinery in 2019 in this regard.

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EPFL team develops on-board system to capture CO2 from trucks; reducing emissions by 90%

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The liquid CO 2 would then be delivered to a service station and where it will be turned back into fuel using renewable energy. That liquid is stored in a tank and can then be converted back into conventional fuel at the service stations using renewable electricity. Sharma and Maréchal. —François Maréchal. 2019.00143.

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Light-powered nano-bio hybrid organisms consume CO2, create plastics and fuels

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When illuminated by light, these QDs drive the renewable production of different biofuels and chemicals using carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and nitrogen (from air) as substrates. The focus now, Nagpal said, will shift to optimizing the conversion process and bringing on new undergraduate students. —Prashant Nagpal. 9b02549.

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Stanford/DTU team devises new effective solid-oxide electrochemical cell for CO2 electrolysis

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High-temperature CO 2 electrolysers offer exceptionally efficient storage of renewable electricity in the form of CO and other chemical fuels, but conventional electrodes catalyse destructive carbon deposition. A paper on the work is published in Nature Energy. Gopal, Matteo Monti, Lev Martinez, Eugen Stamate, Simone Sanna, Jose A.

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A metal-free, sustainable approach to CO2 reduction

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Now, scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and the Renewable Energy Research Center at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have demonstrated the possibility of using a fully recyclable, metal-free catalyst. doi: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b02172. 9b02172.

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