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DOE EERE awarding $43.6M for Phase II SBIR projects

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Mainstream Engineering Corporation is developing a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process to convert food wastes to renewable diesel and jet fuels that will improve yield and quality, and reduce aqueous byproducts to advance commercial adoption. TDA Research Inc.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Enovix Corporation. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit. Exelon Corporation. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec Corporation). Marquette University.

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Cellulosic BioButanol Company Cobalt Technologies Signs Agreement With Fluor Corporation

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Cobalt Technologies has signed an agreement with Fluor Corporation for engineering consulting services as Cobalt gears up to commercialize its cellulosic biobutanol production technology. We believe Cobalt’s technology has great potential and are looking forward to helping them scale up rapidly.

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UC Riverside researchers receive two grants to advance steam hydrogasification reaction for waste-to-fuels

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost. Earlier post.).

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Deep-sea battery metal developer DeepGreen going public with SPAC to become $2.9B (equity value) The Metals Company

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The development of this resource offers an abundant, low-cost supply of critical raw materials for EV batteries and wiring including nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese, with a lower lifecycle ESG impact than conventional mining. DeepGreen Metals Inc., The transaction represents a pro forma equity value of US$2.9 Source: DeepGreen.

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NGen Canada awarding $76M to 15 zero-emission vehicle projects

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Lead: Cnem Corporation; Partners: Talon Metals Services Inc., Palcan Energy Corporation. Cnem Corporation and partners Talon Metals Services Inc., and Palcan Energy Corporation will develop a new recycling process to process EV battery black mass using an environmentally friendly approach. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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AK Steel Corporation. AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Organization.