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JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million). University of Oklahoma (up to $4 million).

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JANUARY 6, 2010

The United States needs to fundamentally rethink its policy of promoting ethanol to diversify its energy sources and increase energy security, according to a new research paper and accompanying policy paper by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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MAY 16, 2016

The projects selected include the following: Arizona State University. This uses carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and light as the main inputs, and does not waste carbon and energy by limiting the amount of biomass produced. Arizona State University. Duke University.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The authors are: Arun Majumdar, a Jay Precourt Professor and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University and lead author of the commentary. Ravi Prasher is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the first program directors at ARPA-E.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

And that is going to severely hurt an all but invisible group; strippers in the United States. Stripper wells also don’t cost a lot to operate—perhaps $2,000 a month by some estimates, mostly for electricity and water disposal. These wells may not seem consequential, but there are roughly 410,000 of them in the US.

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MAY 13, 2012

OsComp Systems designed and tested the novel compressor design with funding from the DOE-supported Stripper Well Consortium , an industry-driven organization whose members include natural gas and petroleum producers, service companies, industry consultants, universities, and industrial trade organizations. million homes.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. The Ability Hand is available in the United States for patients age 13 or older. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. and a Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

A new study by economists at Oregon State University questions the cost-effectiveness of current biofuels and says they would barely reduce fossil fuel use and would likely increase greenhouse gas emissions. US costs and scope for reducing fossil fuel use and GHG emissions with. alternative interventions.

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JULY 16, 2022

as early as 2050 , according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. This timing is particularly significant because the enormous costs required to design and build a submarine are meant to be spread out over at least 60 years. It may come. two methods offer.

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JULY 26, 2012

The oxy-combustion process replaces the air used for combustion with a mixture of oxygen and recycled plant emissions (flue gas) and/or water for temperature control. The new selections announced today are part of a two-phase effort to evaluate and develop advanced oxy-combustion projects that yield cost-competitive options for CCUS.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

In recent years, however, CSP development stalled amid the rapidly falling cost of solar PV. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. Today, nearly 120 projects operate worldwide, and Spain claims more than a third of total installed capacity.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. point out in their paper. The post-mining landscape will support >65% less peatland.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

Under the Proalcool Program, sugar companies were ordered to increase production and the state-run oil company, Petrobras, was required to make álcool (ethanol) available at its fuel stations. water content in it and Gasoline C, or E25, which is a mixture of 75% Gasoline A and 25% in volume of anhydrous ethanol (AEAC) with a maximum of 0.4%

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Europe’s 125,000 irregular immigrants in 2019 also number fewer per capita than irregular immigrants to the United States, which has just three quarters the population of the European Union yet reported more than 1 million irregular immigrants at its borders in 2019. Member States,” says geographer. One migrant with no money.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

In recent years, however, CSP development stalled amid the rapidly falling cost of solar PV. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. Today, nearly 120 projects operate worldwide, and Spain claims more than a third of total installed capacity.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. billion in loan guarantees to support innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the United States.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The target liquid fuel is isooctane, which fits well into the existing transportation fuel system in the United States. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 NC State University.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Shale gas—natural gas trapped inside formations of shale—is contributing to a rejuvenation of domestic natural gas supply in the United States, with production having increased fourteen-fold over the past decade with a tripling of reserves, according to the US Energy Information Administration. million in federal funds.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

—Steve Strauss, a distinguished professor of forest biotechnology at Oregon State University, and lead author of the paper. Sedjo (2010) Far-reaching Deleterious Impacts of Regulations on Research and Environmental Studies of Recombinant DNA-modified Perennial Biofuel Crops in the United States. BioScience Vol.

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JULY 20, 2021

At the same time, however, we can already measure solid improvements in productivity and innovation: Since February 2020, some 60 percent of firms in the United Kingdom and in Spain have adopted new digital technologies, and 40 percent of U.K. New businesses came into being at a faster rate in the United States than in previous years.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Rather, the original spark often comes from a university lab , a renegade group at a large company, or a hobbyist building stuff for fun. But with Moore's Law cranking along at a steady pace, there was every reason to think that the cost of computing power would come down sufficiently within a decade or so.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

The United States imported 4,000 metric tons of lithium in 2018, according to the US Geological Survey, a figure expected to grow exponentially. These plants pump hot water from geothermal deposits and use it to generate electricity. The technique is very sensitive to hydrogen atoms, making it ideal for studying water.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Engineers have long recognized the power—and limitless availability—of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe. Hydrogen occurs naturally in the environment, but it is almost always chemically bound to other elements—to oxygen in water (H 2 O), for example, or to carbon in methane (CH 4 ).

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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Delay of Technology Development.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. for conventional diesel from the United States.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. We think there’s a better way.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2008 : Researchers from England, Germany, and the United States proposed replacing the term “tipping point”, which suggests a specific time frame, with “tipping elements” to describe known ecosystems in danger of collapse, yet for which a likely timeframe could not easily be estimated ( earlier post ).

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MARCH 5, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year, with accompanying disposal costs of about $5 billion per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive.

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MAY 6, 2019

In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. University.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

MARINER projects are to develop the tools to enable the United States to become a leading producer of macroalgae (seaweed). Macroalgae can be utilized as a feedstock for domestic transportation fuels, chemicals and other commercial products without competing with food crops for land and water. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 4, 2023

For electricity generation, this means the United States alone needs to increase renewable-energy capacities by 10 times over the next 12 years , which roughly translates to a mind-boggling 400,000 more wind turbines and 2.5 The world emits 51 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. billion more solar panels.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Industrial processes consume about one-third of all energy produced in the United States, representing a huge opportunity to boost American competitiveness through advances in energy-saving technologies. The PolyPlus lithium-water battery has achieved the highest energy density ever recorded at 1,300 Wh/kg. University.

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