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US Awards $1B in Recovery Act Funding to FutureGen 2.0; Advanced Coal Repowering and CO2 Storage

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The plant’s new boiler, air separation unit, CO 2 purification and compression unit will deliver 90% CO 2 capture and eliminate most SO x , NO x , mercury, and particulate emissions. The pipeline network, along with the repository in Mattoon, helps to lay the foundation for a regional CO 2 network.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa. Earlier post.).

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

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It’s now or never if humans hope to prevent the mercury from increasing by 1.5° It’s possible to construct off-grid charging stations, but they come with hassles, such as storing power when the sun doesn’t shine. The post Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack

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So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. E In a 2013 study, Sandberg and his colleague Stuart Armstrong suggested deploying automated self-replicating robots on Mercury to build a Dyson swarm.

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DeepGreen Metals revises undersea polymetallic nodules resources upwards

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As countries invest in large-scale clean energy transition programs and begin to phase out internal combustion engines, securing the minerals required to build batteries for storing renewable energy and powering electric vehicles is increasingly critical.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. That, according to Nelson, is not an “effect”—the C-64 used by the Mercury News reviewer simply doesn’t do horizontal scrolling properly. The succeeding eight locations store eight more pixels from the same eight lines [see figure].

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

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And its easier to clean central power plants than millions of vehicles. Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants?

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