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New Review Concludes Very Low EROI of Oil Shale Combined with High Carbon Intensity Likely Makes it an Unsuitable Alternative to Conventional Crude Oil

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Source: Cleveland and O’Connor. Oil shale” is shale containing kerogen, a combination of chemical compounds that can be converted into synthetic petroleum. The kerogen in oil shale is solid organic material that has not been subject to the temperature, pressure, and other geologic conditions required to convert it to liquid form.

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Satellite-data derived study finds meeting renewable fuel targets is theoretically feasible, but would change significantly impact agriculture mix

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Roughly 80% of the current recovered harvest in the US would need to be re-allocated for the production of bioenergy crops to meet current renewable fuel targets with existing technology, according to a new study using satellite data led by researchers from the University of Montana. Cleveland, Sasha C. —Smith et al.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5 Devastating accidents, like the ones at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan, can leave areas uninhabitable. Among those interested parties is NASA.

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

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. Johnson-Matthey (Cleveland, United Kingdom). Power Converters and Components for Resilient MVDC Microgrids, $299,754. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., Samuel Au from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Multiscale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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Gas2 secures £5.5M in funding to further catalytic ceramic membrane gas-to-liquids technology

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Step 2 uses two Fischer-Tropsch units arranged in series, to convert the syngas to liquid fuel products. acre site at the specialist petrochemical research Wilton Centre in Cleveland in the Northeast of England, and further laboratory work and computerized modeling in Aberdeen.

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