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JANUARY 18, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the fourth and fifth cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. University of North Dakota.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

The US Department of Energy has awarded up to $39 million in research grants aimed at developing advanced nuclear energy technologies and training under the Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) initiative. Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation – $4.9 Fuel Cycle Research and Development – $12.4

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MAY 23, 2019

UPS announced an agreement with Clean Energy Fuels Corp. This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. Salt Lake City, Utah; San Antonio, Texas; Shreveport, La.; Clean Energy, co-founded by T. Omaha, Neb.;

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JULY 17, 2020

US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ). Fully Fluorinated Local High Concentration Electrolytes Enabling High Energy Density Silicon Anodes. Clemson University.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Resistive heating runs an electric charge through a highly resistive coil of wire to generate waste heat. While this works well to rapidly heat a cabin (without needing to wait for the engine to warm up to generate heat, as is the case in gas cars), it’s also relatively energy intense.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components.

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JULY 11, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. Results are expected to provide critical information for improving the reactor efficiency in energy production systems. A summary of the topic areas and the selected projects follow.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Renewable energy is another solution. million tonnes.

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MAY 29, 2011

Researchers at Utah State University report on an engineered bacterial enzyme—a molybdenum (Mo) nitrogenase—capable of converting carbon monoxide into usable hydrocarbons in a reaction similar to Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. A open access paper on their work appears in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. This is pretty profound.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Utah State University. According to Dr. Rich Haut, manager of the Alliance and Senior Research Scientist at HARC, the goal is to fund the development of and share the latest research findings with leaders of energy, academia, environmental organizations, and government. University of Colorado. Sam Houston State University.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The demonstration was the result of a seven-year, $13-million cooperative effort supported by the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. Roe-Hoan Yoon, the Nicholas T.

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MARCH 17, 2011

The Penn State separation method uses very little energy and water, and all solvents are recycled and reused. The separation takes place at room temperature without the generation of waste process water. Significant quantities of oil sands (estimated to contain 32 billion barrels of oil) can also be found in Eastern Utah in the US.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Earlier post.) It is later removed from the pools and placed into dry storage casks with protective shielding.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Compared to ethanol, it has higher energy content, is substantially less corrosive, and can be transported utilizing existing fuel pipelines and containers. We don’t want to merely make electric power from these waste products. These products will be produced and consumed in the same community, creating a sustainable energy model.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Instead, they used the term “low energy nuclear reactions (LENR).”

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Metropolitan Energy Information Center’s Midwest Region Alternative Fuels Project.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste). Southeast and Hawaii. million acres, 11.4%

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The results depend most sensitively on the grade of shale used, and the rate of carbonate mineral decomposition which causes inorganic CO 2 release, reports Brandt in a paper published online 25 August in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Schematic of mass and energy flows in the ATP retort. Brandt, 2009. Credit: ACS.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 12 projects for the first round of funding from $1.4 Energy Secretary Steven Chu wrote an editorial for the 25 September 2009 special issue of the journal Science on carbon capture, in which he addressed the magnitude of the challenge. University of Utah. Leucadia Energy LLC.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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JUNE 12, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $54 million—leveraging approximately an additional $17 million in cost share from the private sector—for 13 projects to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help manufacturers significantly increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $16 million in funding for 17 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency (ULTIMATE) program. University of Utah. National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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MARCH 16, 2014

University of Utah chemists have discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials. You put two different weights on the end of a spring, and the spring vibrates once you put energy into it.

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Susan oversees the development and implementation of the City’s energy and green building programs and policies.

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APRIL 15, 2015

Amid this doom and gloom, a water revolution is emerging, led by energy industry figures who realized the endless potential of tapping into new water sources and processing them with advanced desalination technology that, for the first time ever, is economically feasible. How vital water is to energy independence.

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APRIL 10, 2010

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. transportation sector; and industrial facilities would be exempted from a cap on emissions for several years before they are phased in.

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