Carbon, Kentucky and Waste

Ascend Elements begins construction of Apex 1 battery recycling and engineered materials plant in Kentucky

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

This closed-loop system generates minimal waste and carbon emissions compared to traditional cathode manufacturing. billion in economic impact to Kentucky over the construction period and first 10 years. Ascend Elements plans to invest close to $1 billion in the 140-acre campus and 500,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.

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Kentucky Engine Lithium Ion Batteries

Ascend Elements to invest up to $1B in Southwest Kentucky EV battery materials manufacturing facility; Hydro-to-Cathode

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AUGUST 2, 2022

This closed-loop manufacturing system generates minimal waste and carbon emissions compared to traditional cathode manufacturing, the company says. billion in economic impact to Kentucky over the construction period and first 10 years of operation. The project is expected potentially to generate $4.4

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Kentucky Manufacturer Lithium Ion Batteries

Construction begins on DOE-sponsored carbon-capture project at Kentucky Power Plant

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JULY 21, 2014

million carbon-capture pilot, funded in part by the US Department of Energy (DOE), at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. Brown Generating Station near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The 2 megawatt thermal system will be the first megawatt-scale carbon-capture pilot unit in the Commonwealth. Construction began on an innovative $19.5-million

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Kentucky Carbon Power Powered

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,483,787. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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Extracting rare earth elements from coal with plasma assist

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to demonstrate a novel process for the extraction of REEs from coal using plasma. The collaborators researched using low-temperature plasma to pretreat coal-based materials resourced from West Kentucky No.

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Coal Kentucky Virginia Universal

ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

RECLAIM: Electrochemical Lithium and Nickel Extraction with Concurrent Carbon Dioxide Mineralization ($2,999,997). Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Harvard University. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. University of Nevada, Reno.

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Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Enabling Production of Low Carbon Emissions Steel Through CO 2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gases. Chevron USA.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas

Landfill Power For Toyota Plant Cuts Carbon Emissions 90 Percent

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APRIL 2, 2014

The latest is Toyota, which is simultaneously powering its plant and cutting local emissions in Georgetown, Kentucky, by capturing waste gas from a local landfill site. Landfill generates large quantities of waste gas, much.'

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Toyota Emissions Kentucky Power

Toyota converting biogas to power for Georgetown plant

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, with help from Waste Services of the Bluegrass , is converting methane from a local landfill into renewable electricity to power Toyota’s Georgetown assembly plant. Landfill gas is comprised of both methane and carbon dioxide, in addition to varying amounts of other contaminants.

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Convert Toyota Power Powered

Hyundai’s hydrogen big picture goes way beyond cars and trucks

Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

On the road to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, the company wants to use 100% renewable energy at its overseas factories by 2045 and in every facility by 2050—and it says hydrogen will plan an important role in that. But the company is also focusing on a resource-circulation approach, including Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Las Vegas Hyundai Waste

Ford to build new EV and battery plants in Tennessee & Kentucky; $11.4B total investment in two mega-sites; 129 GWh/year total

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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Kentucky Tennessee Ford Building

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Among other expected benefits, initiatives outlined in Ford’s sustainable financing framework are intended to help the company become carbon-neutral no later than 2050, in line with its commitment to the Paris Agreement.

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Financing Ford Clean Cleaning

Toyota Georgetown to generate electricity from landfill gas; 1MW/h initially, scaling up to 10 MW/h

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

manufacturing plant will begin generating electricity—1 megawatt per hour—from methane, a byproduct of trash decomposition at the nearby Central Kentucky Landfill on 23 November, 2015. Last fall, Waste Services began installing a methane collection system and Toyota began installing the generator at the site.

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Gas-Electric Toyota Gas Kentucky

DOE to award $37M to four projects for carbon capture from coal power plants; targeting 90% removal with 35% max increase in electricity cost

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AUGUST 15, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects aimed at reducing the energy and cost penalties of advanced carbon capture systems applied to power plants for further development. Carbon Absorber Retrofit Equipment (CARE). The Department of Energy will contribute $15,000,000 to the project.

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Coal Carbon Power Powered

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Earlier post.) Engineering E. per gallon.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. Murray State University. David White. Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. Dorin Boldor.

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DOE selects 10 projects to enhance research into recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Each process will be evaluated for efficiency of recovery, concentration, waste stream contamination, and cost. The anticipated capacity of the plant is approximately 1–5 tons/day of post-combustion coal ash from burning Fire Clay coal from Eastern Kentucky, and from combusting anthracite refuse.

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Toyota exec believes full-fledged EV push could be ‘wasted investment’

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MARCH 1, 2024

A longtime Toyota executive has essentially put the Japanese automaker’s strategy regarding a widespread electric vehicle transition out in the open, calling it a potential waste. “Wasted investment is worse than the credit purchase,” Ogawa said, according to Automotive News. incentives, for example. No, we’re not.

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Waste Toyota EPA Kentucky

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store

DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Group14’s next-generation silicon-carbon composite to displace graphite in lithium-ion battery (LIB) anodes, called SCC55, facilitates significant reductions in battery cost and carbon footprint on a per unit basis compared to incumbent graphite anode material. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Group14’s next-generation silicon-carbon composite to displace graphite in lithium-ion battery (LIB) anodes, called SCC55, facilitates significant reductions in battery cost and carbon footprint on a per unit basis compared to incumbent graphite anode material. Component Manufacturing (Cathode).

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Manufacturer Parts Batteries Battery

NSF Awards $40M in 20 Grants for Research on Natural Systems, Including 8 Projects for Obtaining Hydrocarbons from Plants and Microorganisms

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. This organism has the potential to directly produce petroleum using a cellulose fermentation process that is essentially carbon neutral. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H.

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Grant Puerto Rico Conversion Montana

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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JUNE 26, 2021

Clermont, Kentucky). Enhanced Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Gyroid Membrane for High Efficiency Carbon Dioxide Absorption, $250,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc. OpenOA, $249,950.

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Ascend Elements begins construction of Apex 1 battery recycling and engineered materials plant in Kentucky

Ascend Elements to invest up to $1B in Southwest Kentucky EV battery materials manufacturing facility; Hydro-to-Cathode

Construction begins on DOE-sponsored carbon-capture project at Kentucky Power Plant

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

Extracting rare earth elements from coal with plasma assist

ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

Landfill Power For Toyota Plant Cuts Carbon Emissions 90 Percent

Toyota converting biogas to power for Georgetown plant

Hyundai’s hydrogen big picture goes way beyond cars and trucks

Ford to build new EV and battery plants in Tennessee & Kentucky; $11.4B total investment in two mega-sites; 129 GWh/year total

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

Toyota Georgetown to generate electricity from landfill gas; 1MW/h initially, scaling up to 10 MW/h

DOE to award $37M to four projects for carbon capture from coal power plants; targeting 90% removal with 35% max increase in electricity cost

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

DOE selects 10 projects to enhance research into recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

Toyota exec believes full-fledged EV push could be ‘wasted investment’

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

DOE awarding $1.16B to 9 battery component manufacturing projects as part of $2.8B funding

NSF Awards $40M in 20 Grants for Research on Natural Systems, Including 8 Projects for Obtaining Hydrocarbons from Plants and Microorganisms

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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