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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The US Departments of Agriculture and Energy selected projects for more than $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. The self-contained process uses minimal water and no acids or chemical additives. University of Minnesota (St. Of the $24.4

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MAY 24, 2010

BP said that the key questions to be addressed by this 10-year research program reflect discussions with the US government and academic scientists in Washington DC last week. How do oil, the dispersed oil and the dispersant behave on the seabed, in the water column, on the surface, and on the shoreline?

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. Natural gas must be developed with safeguards to reduce impacts on water, air quality, land, nearby communities and ecosystems. —Mark Zoback. Earlier post.). Previously the Robert R.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. 5b00400.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Funded by a $2-million grant from the US Department of Energy, a team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led by Eric Masanet is building a sophisticated cost model for fuel cells that will will take into account the total cost of ownership. Analytica Technology.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. Total DOE award: $14,970,144.

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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. According to experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, D.C., Lidar sensors transmit laser pulses through the water to produce highly accurate 3D scans of objects.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Researchers at Washington State University, with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have combined inexpensive nickel and iron in a very simple, five-minute process to create large amounts of a high-quality catalyst required for water splitting. SEM image of NiFe nanofoams.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a $13.5-million, Funded by the US Department of Energy, this five-year grant takes a comprehensive approach to better understand how plants and microbes interact, and to learn which sorghum germplasm grows better with less water and nitrogen. —Daniel Schachtman.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. of Washington). Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

million grant to support the project’s development. Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology. the demand for LPG is relatively high.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Researchers led by a team at Washington State University (WSU) have developed a unique and inexpensive nanoparticle catalyst that allows a solid-oxide fuel cell to convert logistic liquid fuels such as gasoline to electricity without stalling out during the electrochemical process. Gray, Steven R. Saunders, M. 2020.118626.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Researchers at the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC) have verified findings by Planar Energy that could lead to significant cost and performance improvements in large format batteries for practical electric vehicles, according to the company.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. That desire was nicely captured by electrical engineer Benjamin Lamme in a 1918 presentation to the Washington, D.C.,

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AUGUST 25, 2016

Using an engineered strain of the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, a team from the University of Washington, Utah State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have reduced carbon dioxide to methane in one enzymatic step. Fixen et al.

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JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. Chen of Colorado State University; Soltex; and Hybrid Coating Technologies. The 2015 winners are Algenol; Lanzatech; Renmatix; Professor Eugene Y.-X. Department of Energy).

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AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. On a broad level, the IRA enacts the following climate change-mitigation measures which, taken together, put the U.S.

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JUNE 4, 2011

Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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JUNE 4, 2011

Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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APRIL 10, 2010

states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana.

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