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UT El Paso-led team designs cactus-inspired low-cost, efficient water-splitting catalyst

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Researchers led by engineers at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have proposed a low-cost, cactus-inspired nickel-based material to help split water more cheaply and efficiently. Resources Navid Attarzadeh, Debabrata Das, Srija N. who led the study. —Attarzadeh et al. Chintalapalle, Susheng Tan, V. 3c00781

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Researchers achieve highest specific capacitance of 638 F g-1 using covalent triazine-based framework on nanostructured spherical carbon

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Researchers from the University of Bialystok (Poland), the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and colleagues have achieved the highest specific capacitance value reported of 638 F g −1 in aqueous acidic solutions by combining spherical carbon nanostructures with covalent triazine-based frameworks. Resources Hryniewicka, A.,

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Kinder Morgan to purchase El Paso for approximately $38B to form largest natural gas pipeline network and largest midstream energy enterprise in North America

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KMI) and El Paso Corporation on Sunday announced a definitive agreement whereby KMI will acquire all of the outstanding shares of EP in a transaction that will create the largest midstream and the fourth-largest energy company in North America with an enterprise value of approximately $94 billion and 80,000 miles of pipelines.

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Texas Mineral Resources to establish lithium subsidiary to market Round Top lithium

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Texas Mineral Resources Corp. Column leach tests were conducted by Resource Development Inc (RDI) of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, an independent laboratory testing company which provides technical and consulting services to the international mining industry. Texas Mineral Resources Corp.’s extraction rate.

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NREL researchers point toward building energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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The other zones encompassed the cities of New York, El Paso, and Denver. Instead of focusing on storage, the researchers emphasized the optimal mix of renewable resources, oversized generation capacities, and investments in energy efficiency. They also determined that oversizing renewable capacities by a factor of 1.4

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Record $86B in 2011 US oil and gas upstream deals, led by unconventional sector with $62B

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Industry appetite for oil-rich resource plays, particularly the North Dakota Bakken shale, Texas Eagle Ford shale and Ohio Utica shale, drove deal activity in the unconventional sector to a record $62 billion. We expect continued strong activity in oil and liquids-rich resource plays in 2012. —Ronyld W. Wise, President of PLS.

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Texas Automated Vehicle Proving Ground Partnership forms; applying for national designation

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The teams are committed to continuing the collaboration, beginning with leveraging their collective resources, expertise and opportunities to advance AV technology. El Paso Area — Tornillo/Guadalupe Port of Entry. Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington Area — UTA campus, Arlington streets, I-30 corridor and Managed Lanes.

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