Coal, Cost and Study

DOE to award $32M for FEED studies for production of rare earths and critical minerals and materials from coal

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JULY 15, 2023

Coal and coal production waste contain a wide variety of valuable rare earth elements that can be converted into clean energy technology components. The US currently has more than 250 billion tons of coal reserves, more than 4 billion tons of waste coal, and about 2 billion tons of coal ash at various sites across the country.

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OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare-earth elements from it. Coal mine drainage (CMD) impairs tens of thousands of kilometers of U.S. CMD, coal mine drainage; TEP, trap-extract-precipitate. Miranda et al. —Jeff Bielicki. Miranda, Jeffrey M.

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Coal Clean Cleaning West Virginia

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study.

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Asia Coal Solar Power

DOE to award up to $100M for future coal plants in Coal FIRST initiative

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APRIL 14, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) intends to provide up to $100 million in awards ( DE-FOA-0002116 ) for the Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, and Transformative) initiative (announced in November 2018), which aims to develop coal plants of the future that will provide secure, stable, reliable power with near-zero emissions.

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Coal Future Power Powered

Harvard study links short-term exposure to PM2.5 with risks of common but rarely studied causes of hospital admissions; substantial economic costs

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

In addition, the study found that even small increases in PM 2.5 exposure were linked with substantial health care and economic costs. The open-access study is published in BMJ. The study shows that the health dangers and economic impacts of air pollution are significantly larger than previously understood.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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Coal Convert Power Powered

DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. Some of these technologies are now ready to proceed to the large-scale pilot stage of development.

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Coal North Dakota Illinois Universal

DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The conceptual designs of each project include an option for up to a $2-million feasibility study. Winner Water Services Inc. Sharon, PA).

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Coal Design West Virginia North Dakota

Stanford study finds current carbon capture technology inefficient & increases air pollution

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

A study by Mark Z. Even if you have 100 percent capture from the capture equipment, it is still worse, from a social cost perspective, than replacing a coal or gas plant with a wind farm because carbon capture never reduces air pollution and always has a capture equipment cost. —Mark Jacobson.

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Pollution Carbon Coal Wind

Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated

Electrek

MAY 6, 2021

The costs of most existing coal-fired power plants in the US are now more expensive than the total costs of wind and solar as a result of their plunging costs, according to a new study. more… The post Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated appeared first on Electrek.

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Coal Wind Solar Price

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

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APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. Green hydrogen is produced from renewable energy using electrolysis.

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Hydrogen Carbon Corporation Japan

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Air pollution is costing African countries billions in gross domestic product and can be correlated to a devastating loss in the intellectual development of Africa’s children, the researchers found. The team studied trends in air pollution in Africa to determine impacts on human health and economic development in 54 African countries.

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

DOE awards $3M to MP Materials for project to extract rare earths from fossil fuel waste streams

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MAY 17, 2021

MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.

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Kentucky Coal Waste Fuel

DOE announces $50M for large-scale pilot coal projects

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AUGUST 26, 2017

DOE has supported a range of potentially transformational coal technologies aimed at enabling step-change improvements in coal-powered systems. Applicants to this new FOA should have already demonstrated technical success at a small-scale pilot stage, and a 20 percent minimum cost share on total award values is required.

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Coal Design Cost Of Energy

DOE invests $17.4M in projects to advance recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

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AUGUST 17, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four projects to move on to a second phase of research in their efforts to advance recovery of rare earth elements (REE) from coal and coal byproducts. The solids are from Northern Appalachian and Central Appalachian bituminous coal seams in West Virginia. Earlier post.) 6 million.

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DOE selects 7 gasification projects for funding; focus on reducing cost of coal conversion

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JULY 15, 2015

The projects conducted through this program are geared toward reducing the cost of coal conversion and mitigating the environmental impacts of fossil-fueled power generation. Bio-gasification of Coal to Methane. DOE: $650,000 Non DOE: $162,500 Total: $812,500 (20% cost share). Lead organization. Description.

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Coal Conversion Cost Of Montana

Feasibility study concludes Arckaringa coal-to-methanol project could be viable addition to CTL

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AUGUST 6, 2013

A Technical Feasibility Study (TFS) for a coal-to-methanol (CTM) plant based on the Arckaringa coal resources in Australia has concluded that CTM could be a viable project capable of augmenting the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for Altona Energy’s Arckaringa Clean Energy CTL (coal-to-liquids) and Power Project in South Australia.

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Coal Australia Conversion Asia

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix.

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Asia Coal Solar Power

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Coal Pollution Grid Gasoline-Electric

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

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JULY 30, 2020

A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. Source: PNNL.

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Grid Charging Power Grid California

Researchers calculate social cost of German nuclear phase-out at $12B/year; 70% from increased mortality risk

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JANUARY 27, 2020

In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a team from UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) calculate that the social cost of the phase out of nuclear electricity production in Germany is approximately $12 billion per year.

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Cost Of Germany Pollution 2017

OSU team demonstrates Coal-Direct Chemical Looping for more efficient and low carbon coal heat release

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

An Ohio State University team has demonstrated the successful operation of Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL)—which chemically harnesses coal’s energy and efficiently contains the carbon dioxide produced before it can be released into the atmosphere. Hot iron and coal ash are left behind. 2 millimeters across.

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Coal Carbon Ohio Columbus

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

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JULY 29, 2023

These facilities typically use approximately one ton of coal to produce one BBL of hydrocarbons, with a life cycle CO 2 emissions calculation that is slightly worse than equivalent fuels derived from conventional oil refining. DGF replaces the coal gasification used by others with biomass gasification and natural gas reforming.

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Companies Fuel Louisiana Asia

Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

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AUGUST 5, 2022

The new material is simple to make, requiring primarily off-the-shelf melamine powder—which today costs about $40 per ton—along with formaldehyde and cyanuric acid, a chemical that, among other uses, is added with chlorine to swimming pools. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

billion (US) in economic losses, according to a new study led by researchers from the Global Observatory on Pollution and Health at Boston College, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the Public Health Foundation of India. Air pollution in India resulted 1.67

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Pollution India 2019 Boston

DOE to award up to $3M for cost-effective low-concentration CO2 capture or conversion for coal-relevant applications

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JULY 6, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001342 ) for cost-effective CO 2 capture or conversion solutions for coal-relevant applications at low concentrations. Proposed technologies should mitigate CO 2 from coal-relevant gases with CO 2 concentrations of.

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Coal Conversion CO2 Hybrid

Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee.

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Renewable Energy Portland Climate Change

EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions in 2012 lowest since 1994; reflects drop in coal use

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APRIL 5, 2013

The largest drop in emissions in 2012 came from coal, which is used almost exclusively for electricity generation. During 2012, particularly in the spring and early summer, low natural gas prices led to competition between natural gas- and coal-fired electric power generators. Duke study.

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Coal 2012 Emissions Energy

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

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. Phase 1 Cost: DOE: $599,987 Non-DOE: $220,609 Total Funding: $820,596 (27% cost share).

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Coal North Dakota Kentucky West Virginia

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

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APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. The question of electricity costs vs. health and environmental cost is important to ask everywhere, Michalek said. Click to enlarge.

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Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass

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MAY 15, 2012

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a follow-on study to its 2009 evaluation of the economic and environmental performance of Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) and CTL with modest amounts of biomass mixed in (15% by weight) for the production of zero-sulfure diesel fuel. Earlier post.).

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Coal Diesel Oil Prices Water

US DOE to award up to $3M for coal-biomass-to-liquid projects

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APRIL 29, 2012

The Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000703 ) for the awards is soliciting applications for R&D in two specific Areas of Interest: laboratory scale liquids production and assessment; and a feasibility study for a coal-biomass to liquids facility. Feasibility Study for a Coal-Biomass to Liquids Facility.

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Coal Conversion Commercial Convert

DOE issues $13M funding opportunity for advanced coal gasification systems for power or fuels

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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0000784 ) for up to $13 million to support the development of advanced coal gasification systems. AOI 1: Coal Feed Technologies - Low-rank Coal Feed or Coal-woody Biomass Feed Technologies. poplar, pine and hardwoods]).

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Coal Fuel Power Powered

Study finds that dry-feed gasification for coal-to-liquids is more efficient, lower-emitting and cheaper than slurry-feed; CCS cost-effective for reduction of CO2

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Comparison of coal consumption and CO 2 emissions for co-production and separate production of liquids and power. Conventional CTL plant gasifies coal to produce a syngas which is then converted in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to products. Even with CCS, the liquid product costs are comparable to recent crude oil prices.

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Coal Oil Prices CO2 Gas-Electric

U-M study: When, where, how electric delivery vehicles are charged has big impact on GHGs

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JULY 13, 2021

Now, a study from University of Michigan researchers shows that when, where and how those fleet vehicles are charged can greatly impact their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Maxwell Woody. —corresponding author Parth Vaishnav.

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Charging Vehicles Gas-Electric Emissions

Study suggests China urban passenger transport emissions could peak in 2030

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AUGUST 9, 2019

A paper on their study appears in the journal Energy Policy. This study implements three main research contents. (1) Energy demand is able to peak at around 2020, with the peak amount ranging between 86 Mtce and 107 Mtce (million tonnes of coal equivalent), and energy consumption is likely to drop to 70–84 Mtce in 2050.

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Transportation Emissions China Taxi

Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

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JANUARY 26, 2023

If implemented in the UK alone, the system could deliver cost savings of £1.28 We present here a first-principles study of the sector coupling between a thermochemical carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) splitting cycle and existing blast furnace – basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steel making for cost-effective decarbonisation. Kildahl et al.

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Carbon Emissions Cleaner Gas-Electric

UCSD study: under current policies, home energy storage would often increase carbon emissions

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Under current policies, home energy storage systems would also often increase carbon emissions, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Would greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power system go down, and at what economic cost?

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Energy Storage Carbon Emissions Energy

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

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JUNE 9, 2011

A new assessment of the viability of coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology by researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (JPSPGC) found that without climate policy, CTL has the potential to account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050. Credit: Chen et al., 2011 Click to enlarge.

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Coal MIT Climate Global

Study finds co-producing FT fuels and electricity from coal and biomass with CCS delivers low GHG synfuels at lower cost and with less biomass than cellulosic ethanol

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer-Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Guangjian Liu, Eric D.

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Coal Fuel Carbon Emissions

ENEOS begins joint study with Origin on Japan-Australia green hydrogen supply chain; MCH as transport medium

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AUGUST 26, 2021

ENEOS Corporation and Origin Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a study on a potential business collaboration for the development of a CO 2 -free hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Australia. Specifically, Origin will focus on use of renewable energy supply and water electrolysis cells for hydrogen production.

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Australia Japan Hydrogen Supplies

BNEF: wind and solar boost cost-competitiveness versus fossil fuels

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

This year has brought a significant shift in the generating cost comparison between renewable energy and fossil fuels, according to detailed analysis by technology and region, published this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. —Seb Henbest, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa at BNEF.

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Wind Solar Coal Fuel

Synthesis Energy Systems and Ambre Energy enter into technical study agreement for coal to gasoline and LPG project; ExxonMobil MTG

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AUGUST 31, 2011

(SES), a global energy and gasification technology company that provides products and solutions to the energy and chemicals industries, has entered into a Technical Study Agreement with Ambre Energy of Australia to supply a proprietary gasification design to support Ambre’s development of a planned Coal to Liquids Project (ambreCTL).

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Coal Gasoline Energy Australia

Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

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MARCH 10, 2013

A new study by Charles J. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. The Stanford study considered a future US grid where up to 80% of the electricity comes from renewables.

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Energy Storage Grid Cost Of Energy

DOE to award $32M for FEED studies for production of rare earths and critical minerals and materials from coal

OSU team develops process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare earth elements

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

DOE to award up to $100M for future coal plants in Coal FIRST initiative

Harvard study links short-term exposure to PM2.5 with risks of common but rarely studied causes of hospital admissions; substantial economic costs

Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

DOE awarding $6.5M to 9 large-scale Phase I pilot coal projects

DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

Stanford study finds current carbon capture technology inefficient & increases air pollution

Coal is losing the price war to wind and solar faster than anticipated

Woodside joins Japanese consortium to study exporting carbon-neutral hydrogen as ammonia

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

DOE awards $3M to MP Materials for project to extract rare earths from fossil fuel waste streams

DOE announces $50M for large-scale pilot coal projects

DOE invests $17.4M in projects to advance recovery of rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts

DOE selects 7 gasification projects for funding; focus on reducing cost of coal conversion

Feasibility study concludes Arckaringa coal-to-methanol project could be viable addition to CTL

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

CMU study finds that coal retirement is needed for EVs to reduce air pollution

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

Researchers calculate social cost of German nuclear phase-out at $12B/year; 70% from increased mortality risk

OSU team demonstrates Coal-Direct Chemical Looping for more efficient and low carbon coal heat release

SAF company DG Fuels closes investments with two Japanese companies

Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

DOE to award up to $3M for cost-effective low-concentration CO2 capture or conversion for coal-relevant applications

Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

EIA: US energy-related CO2 emissions in 2012 lowest since 1994; reflects drop in coal use

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

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Updated NETL study provides more detailed economic and environmental assessment of coal-to-liquids and CTL with modest biomass

US DOE to award up to $3M for coal-biomass-to-liquid projects

DOE issues $13M funding opportunity for advanced coal gasification systems for power or fuels

Study finds that dry-feed gasification for coal-to-liquids is more efficient, lower-emitting and cheaper than slurry-feed; CCS cost-effective for reduction of CO2

U-M study: When, where, how electric delivery vehicles are charged has big impact on GHGs

Study suggests China urban passenger transport emissions could peak in 2030

Novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces could reduce steelmaking emissions by 88%; closed-loop carbon recycling

UCSD study: under current policies, home energy storage would often increase carbon emissions

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

Study finds co-producing FT fuels and electricity from coal and biomass with CCS delivers low GHG synfuels at lower cost and with less biomass than cellulosic ethanol

ENEOS begins joint study with Origin on Japan-Australia green hydrogen supply chain; MCH as transport medium

BNEF: wind and solar boost cost-competitiveness versus fossil fuels

Synthesis Energy Systems and Ambre Energy enter into technical study agreement for coal to gasoline and LPG project; ExxonMobil MTG

Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

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