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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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Cessna Aircraft Company-Cessna Citation, Wichita, Kan., Moreover, the fuel burn reduction and the ‘greening’ of the electrical power grid can produce large reductions in emissions of life cycle CO 2 and nitrous oxide. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., million, three years. million, 27 months.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia

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team will build a reversible electrochemical cell to produce ammonia from nitrogen and water or consume ammonia to generate electricity. The team will build an anion exchange membrane (AEM) using a thin porous ceramic/metal sheet, allowing the cell to operate between 50 and 180 °C. FuelCell Energy, Inc. RTI International. SAFCell, Inc.

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