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Port of Seattle partners with Alaska Airlines and Boeing to supply sustainable aviation biofuel at Sea-Tac Airport

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The Port of Seattle, Alaska Airlines and Boeing are partnering to move toward powering all flights by all airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with sustainable aviation biofuel. Over the past five years, Alaska Airlines has become a leader in the pursuit of finding a sustainable supply of biofuels.

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S4 Energy Solutions to Develop Plasma Gasification Project at Waste Management Landfill for Waste to Fuels and Power

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S4 Energy Solutions LLC , a joint venture by Waste Management, Inc. and InEnTec LLC, plans to develop a plasma gasification facility at Waste Management’s Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Oregon. The planned facility will convert municipal solid waste into synthetic fuels and power. PEM facility equipment overview.

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Nissan Leaf Hits Seattle

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Listen to what happens when the Nissan Leaf roadshow reaches Seattle. Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s Director of Product Planning, says Seattle is part of a DOE project to place 2,500 charging stations to the Puget Sound region this summer. The Leaf has no internal combustion engine, which makes it a zero-emissions car.

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New catalytic process to convert lignin into jet-range hydrocarbons

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The developer of the process, Bin Yang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering at WSU and his team are working with Boeing Co. Ordinarily, it is wasted when plant biomass, including cellulose, is converted into biofuels such as ethanol. The work is featured on. Tucker, John R. 17, 5131-5135 doi: 10.1039/C5GC01534K.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. APEX Petroleum Engineering (Englewood, Colorado). Seattle, Washington). Cyrqenergy (Seattle, Washington).

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Univ. of Montana launches partnership with Blue Marble for commercial products from algal biomass

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Our goal will be to tap into Blue Marble’s carbon dioxide waste stream and then turn that CO 2 into algal biomass. Stephens says UM’s favorable attitude toward industry partnerships was one factor in the decision to move the company from Seattle to Missoula in 2010. Partnering with UM is key to our research and development program.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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The other two ships, the Japanese Mutsu (1970) and the German Otto Hahn (1968), were both refitted with diesel engines partway through their service lives. Seen here near the port of Seattle, in 1962, the NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. Hundreds of nuclear reactors have since been used on ships and submarines.