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ARPA-E awarding $30M to 12 hybrid solar projects; conversion and storage

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Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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New Mo-doped Ni catalyst for SOFCs enhances use of fuels such as gasoline

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In addition to WSU, the team included researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Stony Brook University; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Foshan University in China; and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Fuel cells that run on gasoline, however, tend to build up carbon within the cell, stopping the conversion reaction.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Watertown, Massachusetts). Newton, Massachusetts). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Newton, Massachusetts). Framatome Inc.

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MIT and Lamborghini file patent on new MOF material for supercapacitors

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A collaboration between Automobili Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new MOF-based material that will serve as the foundation for a new generation of supercapacitors. CO 2 and O 2 reduction, and natural gas conversion), energy conversion and storage, sensing, gas separation, and biotechnology.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. economical to store or transport. Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. combustor of a natural gas turbine, facilitating its conversion into a. Small-scale conversion.

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ARPA-E selects 33 projects for $66M in awards; advanced biocatalysts for gas-to-liquids and lightweight metals

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While chemically converting natural gas to liquid fuels (GTL) is a proven technology that increases volumetric energy density, the current conversion approach through Fischer-Tropsch (FT-GTL) is challenged by both high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Joule Biotechnologies Introduces Its Technology for Producing Renewable Transportation Fuels

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a bioengineering startup, unveiled its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. Founded in 2007 by Flagship Ventures, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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