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Researcher urges more effort on assessment of land and water impacts of oil sands production; reference point for other unconventional fuels

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Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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Study finds perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn

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Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

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The removal of CO 2 from oceanwater (or other natural waters), or direct ocean capture (DOC), is one method of capturing dispersed CO 2. In comparison to removal of CO 2 from point sources, DAC has the advantage of being location-independent. Full applications for these five topics are due at 9:30 AM ET on 22 July 2020.

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USGS finds US aquifers being drawn down at accelerating rate

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Groundwater Depletion in the United States (1900-2008) comprehensively evaluates long-term cumulative depletion volumes in 40 separate aquifers (distinct underground water storage areas) in the United States, bringing together reliable information from previous references and from new analyses. For comparison, 9.2

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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Outlines the approach for collecting and analyzing the data needed to evaluate the indicator and for making relevant comparisons to other energy options or agricultural systems. Highlights relevant international and national processes with links to publicly available data sources in an extensive reference section. Water quality.

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Indy 500 race vehicles are working on one hundred pc renewable gas and tires with recycled plastics

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Guayule is almost definitely very best referred to as a supply for herbal latex, worn for gloves and clinical units. “The Hevea tree grown on farms in Southeast Asia is where most of the natural latex rubber comes from, so that takes a lot of water,” she mentioned. Guayule is a domestic source of natural rubber.

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Study finds autothermal reforming with WGS reactor preferred option for on-board reforming of biodiesel and bioethanol

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A study by a team at the German Aerospace Center (Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) identified autothermal reforming in combination with a water gas shift reactor as the preferred option for on-board reforming of biodiesel and bioethanol into a hydrogen-rich gas suitable for high temperature PEM (HTPEM) fuel cells.

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