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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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Texas Awards Terrabon $2.75M to Support Biofuels Work

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Texas Governor Rick Perry has awarded $2.75 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) to Terrabon for its work in biofuel technology development. Further, the project will demonstrate the commercial viability of the desalination technology that also reduces the capital and operating costs of water purification.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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Nevertheless, because of the scarcity and cost of Pt, a more abundant alternative is needed for cost-effective implementation. The Texas Advanced Computing Center also added value. The most common example of this is platinum (Pt), which has served as the benchmark catalyst for HER due to its high catalytic efficiency.

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DOE announces Stage 1 CABLE Conductor Manufacturing Prize Winners

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MetalKraft Technologies, with members from Lehigh University, also is using solid phase processing to create Copper-Graphene Ultra Wire with small amounts of commercially available low-defect crystalline Graphene.

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U Texas Austin team finds P2S5 electrolyte additive enables use of Li2S bulk particles for high-capacity cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries; ~800 mAh/g

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. The ability to use commercially available bulk particles could significantly decrease the manufacturing cost of Li?S Arumugam Manthiram, have found that using phosphorus pentasulfide (P 2 S 5 ) as an electrolyte additive. S batteries with a Li S cathode.

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DOE awards $20M to 10 hydrogen production and delivery technologies projects

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of Danbury, Connecticut will receive $900,000 to develop a novel hybrid system for low-cost, low greenhouse gas hydrogen production. Wiretough Cylinders LLC of Bristol, Virginia will receive $2 million to demonstrate a low cost high pressure hydrogen storage vessel using a steel wire overwrap. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today

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Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today.

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