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ARPA-E holding workshop on increasing efficiency of light collection and bioconversion to liquid fuels

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The US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E will hold a workshop on “Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels: Meeting Today’s Energy Needs by Maximizing Photon Capture” on 2 December 2010, in Arlington, Va. How can organisms be engineered to better use the available solar resource for significantly enhanced production of biofuels?

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DOE Launches $122M Energy Innovation Hub to Focus on Solar Fuels: Fuels from Sunlight

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The US Department of Energy will invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas, one of which is developing an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system—i.e.,

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Audi aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% over the vehicle lifecycle by 2025

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Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. Since the end of 2018, the company has been conducting CO 2 workshops together with its suppliers to agree on effective measures. The solar-energy park will produce more than 9.5

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ARPA-E releases two RFIs: Draft $150M Open Funding Opportunity and accelerating commercialization of Electrofuels

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ARPA-E’s Electrofuels program has supported several technologies on the lab-scale that allow microorganisms to combine chemical or electrical energy with carbon to create liquid transportation fuels. If the final fuel/fuel precursor is not a hydrocarbon, what is the downstream efficiency of conversion to a hydrocarbon? Earlier post.)

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California Energy Commission to award up to $28.59M for hydrogen refueling stations in 25 areas

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the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which is designed to reduce the carbon intensity. The Energy Commission held three public workshops throughout California to. This refueling network is envisioned to support the alternative. auto manufacturers’ MY 2015 fleets to be zero?emission emission vehicles, and. 2012/2013 dedicated $18.7

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Almost $1.8B in US Funding to Support Energy Research; ARPA-E and Energy Frontier Research Centers

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These centers, involving almost 1,800 researchers and students from universities, national labs, companies, and non-profits from 36 states and the District of Columbia, will address the full range of energy research challenges in renewable and carbon-neutral energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, and cross-cutting science.

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DOE to award up to $35M to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies; fuel cell range extenders

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Subtopics were determined using a variety of means such as gap analyses, feedback from industry, Requests for Information (RFIs), external peer reviews, workshops and an assessment of the current RD&D portfolio. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. Catalysts and Supports.

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