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DOE awards LanzaTech $4M for low-carbon jet & diesel demo plant; 3M gpy; Audi evaluating fuel properties

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LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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EU NELLI project delivers new generation solid-oxide fuel cell; efficient and lower cost

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Participants of the NELLHI project report that their results address two of these concerns, in achieving the project’s main objectives, which were: Developing high-performance SOFC stacks at low cost: Results showed more than 70% stack gross efficiency and excellent resilience towards load cycles. NELLHI received €1.6 million (US$1.9

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Not only were development costs absorbed in company overhead, but there was no markup to pay, as there would have been inf the chips had been built by another company. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost.

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