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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Louis , Mo.

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JULY 28, 2016

Edmonton, Canada-based Forge Hydrocarbons has been awarded $500,000 from Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions (AI Bio) ( earlier post ) to support a $1.26-million million project optimizing a pre-commercial plant for its Lipid to Hydrocarbons (LTH) process.

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MARCH 19, 2021

A team of aerospace specialists has launched the first in-flight emissions study using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a wide-body commercial passenger aircraft. —Steven Le Moing, New Energy Program Manager, Airbus.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

Canada-based MGX Minerals Inc. is funding a research consortium with the University of British Columbia (UBC) to develop a low-cost and scalable method for fabricating silicon-based anodes to improve the energy density of Li-ion batteries. Fabrication and evaluation of Si-based anode for Li-ion batteries.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Air Canada is participating in the Civil Aviation Alternate Fuel Contrail and Emissions Research project ( CAAFCER ), a research project led by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to test the environmental benefits of biofuel use on contrails. In 2016 Air Canada continued taking delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

A University of Alberta spinoff company, Forge Hydrocarbons, is commercializing a patented lipids-to-hydrocarbons (LTH) process developed by David Bressler, a researcher in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. million from a variety of funders to pursue the research and commercialize the technology.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada. At the awards ceremony, the theme for the next Contest was announced as well.

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MARCH 22, 2012

These university-industry partnerships will receive almost $34 million in total project support. These partnerships will be supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and National Research Council Canada (NRC). GM Canada, and Hydrogenics.

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JUNE 13, 2021

Canada-based NEO Battery Materials Ltd.—which The agreement would help accelerate NEO’s commercialization plans of its silicon anode technology. He is currently a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Yonsei University. Korea Metal Silicon Co.

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JULY 11, 2021

An international group of experts led by WMG, University of Warwick working together as a part of an ISO technical committee, has published the first international (ISO) safety standard for Level 4 automated driving systems, taking them a step further towards being more widely available.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

million partnership with McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, with funding support from the Canadian government, to develop next-generation, energy-efficient, high-performance electrified powertrains and powertrain components. Electric Mobility Canada, the Canadian Automotive Association and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation.

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APRIL 19, 2023

However, commercially available membranes lack sufficient stability in alkaline environments, which have limited the widespread adoption of AEM in electrolysis applications. In addition, AEM technology is characterized by its cheap and non-critical materials—similar to AEL technology.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Canada-based Forge Hydrocarbons Corporation, a spin-off from the University of Alberta ( earlier post ), has received a US$4-million from Lockheed Martin under the Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) Policy. million contribution by Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

These university-industry partnerships will receive more than C$16 million (US$16.4 million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. Partners: Simon Fraser University and Future Vehicle Technologies Inc. This includes C$6.5

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Canada plans to end the sale of fossil-burners by 2035, and policymakers are looking to the Scandinavian country for answers to the many questions about what it will take to go fully electric. The anti-EV crowd cites these as deal-killers, but Norway provides a model for how Canada can meet them. Are there enough charging stations?

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The process can extract hydrogen from existing oil sands reservoirs, with huge existing supplies found in Canada and Venezuela. Proton Technologies is commercializing the process. Thermolysis, gas reforming and water-gas shift have been used in commercial industrial processes to generate hydrogen for more than 100 years.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

General Motors announced a new community charging program to install up to 40,000 Level 2 EV chargers across the US and Canada. and Canada. GM and its dealers will work together to expand access to charging in local communities including in underserved, rural and urban areas where EV charging access is often limited.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Pajarito Powder develops and commercializes advanced electrocatalysts for fuel cells and electrolyzers. Pajarito Powder says that its materials more effectively use the platinum group metals (PGM) component of catalysts, resulting in higher performance, better stability and improved durability.

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AUGUST 21, 2010

Canada-based Solarvest BioEnergy has begun a cooperative Research and Development agreement with Dr. Suzanne Budge at the Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology at Dalhousie University to assist Solarvest in the characterization of lipids and fatty acids in algae. The continuous bio-production of hydrogen.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

It appears that Tesla and officials from Ontario, Canada, have been communicating about “investment opportunities” over the years. One email reportedly sent last December by a commercial officer at the Ontario Trade and Investment Office in Dallas, TX, hinted at potential subsidies for EV battery production in the province.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Hillcrest Energy Technologies, a Canada-based a clean technology company developing power conversion technologies and control system solutions for next-generation electrical systems, has filed a patent application for a simplified EV charging solution. The 250kW 800V SiC EV inverter commercial prototype will be delivered this year.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Canada-based Nexterra Systems Corp., a supplier of advanced biomass gasification systems, has received C$7.7M (US$7 million) in funding from the BC Bioenergy Network (BCBN), Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), and Ethanol BC.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Initial findings from a world-first study of the impact of 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on both engines of a commercial jet have provided promising early results, according to the participants. In-flight emissions tests and associated ground testing on the ECLIF3 program began earlier this year and have recently resumed.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Canada-based Enerkem Inc., Now that we have launched the world’s first commercial-scale bioethanol operation in Edmonton, we can focus our efforts on building a strong circular economy for communities around the world by deploying new facilities that address the growing challenges related to waste management and sustainable mobility.

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JULY 5, 2022

If the pilot continues as a full commercial build out, the project would be expected to produce up to 2,500 tonnes of hydrogen per year. Ongoing research is being conducted, both through this project and in conjunction with the University of British Columbia-Okanagan, on how to blend hydrogen into the existing gas infrastructure.

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JULY 24, 2017

Columbia University is a new XL Hybrids customer, while existing customers Yale University and Harvard University have reordered hybrid-electric upfits. New commercial fleets ordering from XL Hybrids include Draught Services (a division of The Beer Store) in Canada and Walden Local Meat Co.,

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JULY 21, 2018

Researchers at the University of Western Ontario are proposing selenium (Se) as a promising cathode material for all-solid-state Li batteries, paired with a lithium-tin (L-Sn) alloy as an anode and Li 3 PS 4 as the electrolyte. 10 -5 S cm -1 across the Se-Li 3 PS 4 interface can be achieved.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd.,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 14, 2024

As a case in point, consider a new wearable mesh health-monitor that does away with the “box and a strap” architecture that is still the industry’s de facto commercial design standard. Gutruf is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the university. There is no large rigid island in this device.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)- ENGAGE grant with Dr. Heather Andreas , an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University. Nova Scotia-based Elcora Advanced Materials Corp.

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MAY 14, 2013

the developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels with an initial focus on ethanol ( earlier post ), has launched a new research project with the Government of Canada. The Government of Canada is contributing $1.1 million to this project via Natural Resources Canada.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have applied quantum-inspired computing to find the promising, previously unexplored chemical family of Ru-Cr-Mn-Sb-O 2 as acidic oxygen evolution reaction catalysts for hydrogen production. —Ted Sargent, senior author.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a service agreement with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to bring its eVinci microreactor closer to commercialization. The agreement initiates a Vendor Design Review (VDR) which is a pre-licensing technical assessment of the eVinci small modular reactor design.

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JULY 26, 2013

Researchers at the University of Nottingham (UK) say they have developed a new technology—which entails putting nitrogen-fixing bacteria into the cells of plant roots— that would enable crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than from expensive and environmentally damaging fertilizers.

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JULY 18, 2023

Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department. of Ontario, Canada.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science-based life-cycle assessment. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Port of Frederikshavn, Steeper Energy and Aalborg University are partnering to establish a biomass biorefinery in Denmark to produce a sustainable drop-in sulfur-free marine fuel that will serve more than 100,000 vessels passing through the port annually.

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