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DOE announces $18.6M to support production of low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts

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million in funding to eight university and industry projects to develop biomass feedstocks to produce affordable biofuels and bioproducts that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To meet the growing demand for SAFs and other low-carbon biofuels, affordable feedstocks sources must be developed. 4,551,944 . 4,551,944 .

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

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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico.

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Hyundai makes Series B investment in hydrogen and fuel cell catalyst maker Pajarito Powder

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Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Pajarito Powder develops and commercializes advanced electrocatalysts for fuel cells and electrolyzers. The investment is intended to allow Hyundai Motor to expand its portfolio in the value chain of the hydrogen industry and strengthen the establishment of the hydrogen ecosystem. 2021.100052.

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Advent Technologies to collaborate with Los Alamos, UT Austin, RPI, UNM and Toyota in the development of next-generation HT-PEM fuel cell technology

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Increase Lifetime: Boost tolerance to impurities and improve performance with platinum and non-platinum catalysts.

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NSF launches $20M engineering research center aimed at converting natural gas into transportation fuels: CISTAR

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New materials and fundamental understanding will be transferred from initial, proof of concept lab-scale experiments to full-size pilot scale operations with economic evaluations using systems-level lifecycle and environmental impact analysis to guide research and scale these innovative processes to field demonstrations with industrial partners.

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Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

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According to the MOU, Howard intends to capture its carbon emissions at Javelina, avoiding atmospheric release which contributes to global warming. Academics from the University of Texas at Austin have mapped the geology of the Texas Gulf Coast and have determined this region is suited for injection and storage of pressurized CO 2.

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Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

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—Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. The global warming potential of nitrous oxide is 300-fold greater than carbon dioxide; nitrous oxide accounts for some 6% of human-induced climate change, scientists estimate. Resources.