Coal, Energy, Montana and Universal

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. The calculated relative amounts of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases from eight different energy sources are shown in the table below. Energy source. from coal. Natural gas. Geothermal.

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Coal West Virginia North Dakota Cleaner

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

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MAY 3, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota

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

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JULY 15, 2015

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected seven projects to receive funding through NETL’s Gasification System Program. Bio-gasification of Coal to Methane. Montana State University. The Pennsylvania State University. The Ohio State University.

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Coal Conversion Cost Of Montana

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

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JUNE 14, 2012

Produced water from coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) production may contain sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO 3 ) at concentrations that can harm aquatic life, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey; Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; the Bureau of Land Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Farag, A.M.,

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Sodium Water Coal Montana

Saskatchewan and Montana Partner on Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project

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MAY 8, 2009

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer to work together on the development of one of the largest international carbon capture and storage demonstration projects to date. The estimated of the total cost of the project in Canadian dollars is $270 million (US$231 million).

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Montana Carbon Stimulus CO2

MSU-led regional team awarded $6M NSF grant to research biofuel, carbon capture technologies

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

A regional interdisciplinary team led by Montana State University has received $6 million from the National Science Foundation to address questions about whether biofuels and carbon capture technologies can be sustainably introduced into the Upper Missouri River Basin.

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Grant Montana Missouri Carbon

Hyperbaric Centrifuge Technology Successfully Dewaters Coal Fines

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., Roe-Hoan Yoon, the Nicholas T. Roe-Hoan Yoon.

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Coal Virginia West Virginia Waste

DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

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MARCH 11, 2009

A US Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) team of regional partners has begun injecting CO 2 into a deep lignite coal seam in Burke County, North Dakota, to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of geologic CO 2 storage in the US Great Plains region.

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Coal CO2 North Dakota South Dakota

DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

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JULY 14, 2015

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 16 solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology research projects for a total of more than $19 million ($19,358,915) in funding. FuelCell Energy, Inc. The University of South Carolina. The Tennessee Technological University.

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Fuel West Virginia Low Cost Universal

First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Injection of CO 2 began in a first-of-a-kind US Department of Energy–sponsored field trial of enhanced coalbed methane recovery with simultaneous CO2 sequestration in an unmineable coal seam. CONSOL Energy Inc., The project is funded by DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and managed by NETL.

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West Virginia CO2 Coal Virginia

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Some plant-like bacteria (cyanobacteria) are able to fix nitrogen using solar energy via specialized cellular machinery. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Susan Rosser, University of Glasgow; and Bill Rutherford, Imperial College London. Team members are John W.

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St. Louis Design Washington Universal

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. The work will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Columbia University , New York, N.Y.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store

DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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AUGUST 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 15 projects to develop technologies aimed at safely and economically storing carbon dioxide in geologic formations. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.) Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.)

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CO2 Oil-Sands Austin Universal

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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

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

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

Saskatchewan and Montana Partner on Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project

MSU-led regional team awarded $6M NSF grant to research biofuel, carbon capture technologies

Hyperbaric Centrifuge Technology Successfully Dewaters Coal Fines

DOE Regional Partnership Initiates CO2 Injection in Lignite Coal Seam

DOE selects 16 research projects for more than $19M in funding to advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology

First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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