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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. Matt from Rhode Island reported no faults with the hybrid battery in his 2007 Prius that he bought new, now clocking 555k km (347k miles).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway. Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. —Miettinen et al. Chris Malins.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

The US Department of Energy will invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas, one of which is developing an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system—i.e.,

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

The technology has received a California Energy Commission (CEC) grant to develop the process for production of EEB (also called E-xtra by Vitruvian) from WWTP (waste water treatment plant) biosolids and a National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR Phase 1 grant to characterize EEB as a fuel additive/oxygenate for both gasoline and diesel.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Dozens of students participated in the clean energy conversation and successfully engaged their campus leaders to secure funding. The Mayor is implementing an emission reduction goal for the city of 10% below 2007 levels by 2020. Campus leaders have learned about the program through webinars and workshops. Tiffany & Co.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Joule, a bioengineering startup, is developing its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. Founded in 2007 by Flagship Ventures, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Brown and Iowa State researchers are presenting present their ideas and findings during tcbiomass2011 , the International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science in Chicago. separate sugars from the heavy fractions of bio-oil using a simple water-washing process. —Robert Brown.

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JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. The development of advanced biomass-conversion technologies will require fundamental advances in bioengineering and biotechnology.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. billion gallons US) liters. Altogether biofuels provided 1.8% of the world’s transport fuel.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects for continuation within the Department’s Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Program research portfolio. In addition, eliminating the need for steam bottoming cycles, and the ability to keep fuel and air streams separate, significantly reduce water withdrawal.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

In 2005, Congress enacted the Renewable Fuel Standard as part of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) and amended it in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Such land conversion may disrupt any future potential for storing carbon in biomass and soil. Barriers and opportunities.

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JULY 27, 2009

a bioengineering startup, unveiled its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. Founded in 2007 by Flagship Ventures, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

reduction from the potential commercialization are available through the terms of the first round of shale leasing in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 and 2007, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued six RD&D oil shale leases on lands in Colorado and Utah for the purpose of developing new oil shale recovery technologies. Earlier post.)

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JULY 31, 2017

In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive. Resources. Lindstad, S.E.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

In 2007, LLNL and BP signed a technical agreement to work cooperatively on the development of underground coal gasification (UCG) technology for the in-situ conversion of coal deposits into fuels and other products. LLNL has been working with UCG technology development and field deployment for more than 30 years. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. PERC identifies more than 13 million vehicles worldwide in 2007 as propane-fueled.) The University of Kitakyushu process for the conversion of DME to LPG using hydrogen. Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) approved a $3.9

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MARCH 22, 2010

Deuterium atoms diffuse into the electrode material from the heavy water used in the electrolyte. Once further optimized and energy conversion elements, such as thermoelectric converters, are added, the cell could produce electricity. The number of presentations on the topic at ACS National Meetings has quadrupled since 2007.

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JULY 15, 2011

fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery), energy conversion coefficients among different energy forms and sources, system boundaries, and so on. Because of the same input and output in all cases, an increase in energy conversion efficiency nearly equals impact reductions in carbon and water footprints on the environment.

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APRIL 3, 2009

On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. However very few studies include water use impacts. Methodologies to develop biodiversity quality indicators are still under discussion. Menichetti and Otto.

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JULY 9, 2013

The reintroduced exhaust gas is lower in oxygen content than the ambient air, which limits the conversion of nitrogen to NO x at high temper- ature. A certain minimum exhaust temperature is required in SCR to promote hydrolysis of urea into ammonia (NH 3 ) which then reduces NO x into nitrogen (N 2 ) and water (H 2 O).

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APRIL 1, 2009

EBI researchers will study the genetic makeup of microbial communities found in the formation water and rock samples extracted from the wells, and then quantitatively link their metabolic activity and distribution to the environmental and geological conditions of the subsurface. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

per liter), respectively.the results from this preliminary evaluation indicate great potential for producing gasoline from biomass via thermochemical biomass conversion to syngas and the MTG process, and thus warrant a more detailed study. The steam cycle is integrated with the biomass conversion and MTG processes. per gallon ($0.41

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Second, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) that would provide financing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioenergy. Pilot-scale Conversion and Biorefinery facilities – DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), USDA (REE and FS). President Obama. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 26, 2010

By contrast, making methanol, a liquid fuel, out of natural gas requires much less up-front conversion cost and could have an impact on oil usage and thus improve energy security, but would not reduce greenhouse gases. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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MAY 17, 2023

Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. Are there any of these big projects now that fill you with hope and optimism?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. Waters, it turns out, learned a lot during his days in Detroit.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. Three types of sources of aquatic releases were considered.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. Solar Thermal System: A solar thermal system on the building roof will provide hot water for the operations building and the maintenance building. Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org. 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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APRIL 16, 2014

The DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has funded research on biochemical conversion processes since 2007, with particular focus on the development of improved cellulases and fermentative organisms for ethanol production from cellulosic feedstocks. Examples include algae, seaweed, water hyacinths, etc. DE-FOA-0001085 ).

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MAY 1, 2011

Eastman originally bought the plant in 2007 for a $1.6-billion Two-step methanol and synthesis in water- and gas-cooled reactors operating along the optimum extraction route. MTG, which can be licensed from Exxon Mobil ( earlier post ) currently is the only commercially proven methanol conversion technology. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The conversion of the injection system to a common rail design was one of the major changes; the addition of a new lean NO x trap (LNT) to handle NO x emissions was another. It is then converted to ammonia which interacts with NO x on the SCR catalyst to form water and nitrogen. Volkswagen planned to use both. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Options are in place to order up to 10 million gallons annually of the synthetic biofuel, which be be produced via the gasification of biomass to produce syngas, followed by Fischer-Tropsch conversion. These changes eliminate the need for carbon sequestration and reduce the system’s feed-stock handling costs and complexity, according to DG.

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JUNE 14, 2011

From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys. The routes are laced with roadside bombs and prone to ambush, he noted, resulting in 1,100 insurgent attacks last year.

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MARCH 18, 2009

In 2007, BP and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed a technical agreement to work cooperatively on the development of UCG technology for the in-situ conversion of coal deposits into fuels and other products. Earlier post.). The operation is air-blown and produces gas at a pressure of approximately 10 atmospheres.

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