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INCITE supercomputing grants awarded to 56 projects; sustainable energy to next-gen materials

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The diverse projects will advance knowledge in critical areas ranging from sustainable energy technologies to next-generation materials. The INCITE program issued its first awards in 2004, when three projects received an aggregate five million core hours. The projects will share 5.8 Today’s collective allocation of 5.8

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Alberta’s IETP awarding $33M in allowances to 5 projects to reduce oil sands CO2 and water use, improve recovery

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Alberta’s Innovative Energy Technologies Program (IETP) is supporting 5 new pilot projects to reduce energy use, water use and CO 2 emissions in oil sands processing as well as improving the recovery of crude oil and bitumen in reserves that were once unrecoverable. and Perpetual Energy. and Perpetual Energy. Description.

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Evonik debuts at Auto Shanghai 2011; focus on technologies for lower-carbon vehicles

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The theme of Auto Shanghai 2011, “Innovation for Tomorrow”, reflects that low-carbon, green economy and sustainable development will become trends of the Chinese automotive industry. In order to capture the opportunities in an energy efficient automotive market, Evonik set up the Lightweight Design Automotive project in China last October.

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BASF and CSM Announce Joint Production Development of Bio-based Succinic Acid

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Succinic acid, a four carbon dicarboxylic acid, has the potential to be a key building block for deriving both commodity and specialty chemicals, according to a US Department of Energy 2004 assessment of top value-added chemicals that could be derived from biomass.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

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Audi also offers a package of special e-tron services, from switching to green electricity (Audi Energy) to the “Audi Charge&Fuel Card”. It charges the battery in “battery charge” mode; in “battery hold” it saves the available electric energy for a later time. Energy density has increased by a similar degree.

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