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AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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AirCapture develops on-site, modular technology that captures CO 2 from the air using waste heat from manufacturing plants, enabling customer operations to go carbon neutral and even negative. We are converting common industrial waste streams into product streams —Todd Brix.

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ARPA-E awards $38M to 12 projects leading used nuclear fuel recycling initiative

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The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Award amount: $1,580,774). Award amount: $4,715,163).

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Montgomery Area Transit System, Alabama: $2,675,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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Mercedes-Benz Introduces Two-Mode Hybrid ML450 SUV at New York Auto Show

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In the first and third fixed gear both electric motors work synchronously, providing either additional energy for acceleration (boost) or storing the braking and coasting energy (recuperation). The electrical energy in the ML 450 HYBRID is stored in a compact, 2.4 kWh, 288V liquid-cooled high-voltage NiMH battery pack.

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees), and urban wood wastes. Auburn University of Auburn, Alabama (up to $4.9 Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that were considered include: agricultural residues, energy crops (e.g., Genera Energy, LLC of Knoxville, Tennessee (up to $4.9

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. University of Alabama. Camelina will be engineered with. field trials.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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DigitalGlobe (which Maxar acquired in 2017) recently announced that it had managed to send data from a satellite down to a ground station and then store it in the cloud in less than a minute. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, for example, uses satellite imagery to locate archaeological sites of interest.