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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

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These plants will be fueled by coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste plastics and incorporate carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies. The Coal FIRST Initiative recognizes the importance of hydrogen production from coal, biomass, and waste plastics.

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Energy Research projects receive financial boost

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Among the projects to benefit are an effort to develop new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids with 6-20 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries at just one third of the cost; and a project to produce a flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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to produce useful, high-energy fuel molecules directly within. substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. fuel will be readily separated from the plant biomass through distillation. develop tobacco plants with leaves that contain fuel.

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