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NETL publishes review of safety challenges of production, transportation and storage of hydrogen

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Hydrogen can be extracted from different sources such as fossil fuels, biomass, waste plastics and water. The report documents the unique safety issues for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and gas turbines fueled from hydrogen, and production of hydrogen from fuel reforming, gasification, chemical looping and SOEC.

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Tesla to begin Giga Berlin expansion in first half of 2024: report

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The expansions will begin with construction to modernize the existing facility and build a water recycling plant before initiating plans to add a second production facility and a battery recycling plant in the following years. Many attendees criticized Tesla’s changes to application documentation as the process has gone along.

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Rivian Files Patent for Unique Spare Tire Design With Accessories

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The patent list makes mention of the space being utilized for a “first aid kit, waste can, water container, cooler, vacuum canister, compressed air system, toolbox, electrical appliance, electrical cord wound on a reel, a camera, or other types of containers.”

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Expanded and updated GREET 2021 released

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The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center announced the 2021 release of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. Within the transportation sector, GREET covers road, air, water, and rail transportation sub-sectors. road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems.

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Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Overlay of the proposed plant site on the terrain.

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Argonne releases GREET 2020

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Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center has released the 2020 version of the suite of GREET models and associated documentation. Users can evaluate the impacts on energy use, water consumption, and emissions of e-fuel production pathways using different hydrogen (H 2 ) and electricity sources. Green ammonia.

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ACU’s NEXT Lab submits application to NRC to build molten-salt research reactor

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The MSRE design used light water for cooling the containment atmosphere, containment vessel, reactor shield, drain tank, primary pump, and containment penetrations. The MSRE operated for a period of four years and ORNL generated a substantial body of documents. The ACU MSRR is a simplified version ofthe ORNL MSRE.