Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of up to $40 million, subject to appropriations, to design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected national wave energy testing facility. For context, approximately 90,000 homes can be powered by 1 TWh per year.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. Cool Planet’s sources of biomass include corn stover, wood chips, and fast growing, non-food energy crops such as miscanthus. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 27, 2010
ReVolt Technology, LLC, a company that is developing rechargeable zinc-air batteries ( earlier post ), has been approved to receive a package of loans and tax credits from Oregon and Portland authorities totaling approximately $6.8 ReVolt says that the $6.8 An alkaline electrolyte maintains high ionic conductivity between the two electrodes.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 1, 2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. AMP Robotics.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C In the past two years, the U.S. C in this century.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
The US Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a $96.8 to construct a 23 megawatt (net) geothermal power project in Malheur County, in southeastern Oregon. The project uses an improved technology—a supercritical binary geothermal cycle—to extract energy from rock and fluids in the Earth’s crust. Earlier post.).
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