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AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. The IEEE member is GVE’s chief executive.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

A University of Alberta spinoff company, Forge Hydrocarbons, is commercializing a patented lipids-to-hydrocarbons (LTH) process developed by David Bressler, a researcher in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. Bressler made his initial discovery in 2004 with funding from an NSERC Discovery grant.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008).

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JANUARY 11, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will award some $25 million to four projects to research and development of next-generation renewable energy and high-value biobased products—such as biofuels—from a variety of biomass sources. The following projects have been selected for awards: Kansas State University, $5,078,932.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

million funding increase to an existing grant to ethanol producer POET. The grant increases will play a key role in establishing corn cobs as a viable commodity and setting the stage for corn cob harvesting across the United States, according to POET. since November 2008. since November 2008. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

A consortium comprising researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with BioCee , a University of Minnesota start-up company as the commercialization partner, has been awarded $2.2 NSF awards SBIR grants to small businesses for novel research with a potential for commercialization.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 3, 2021

The University of Stuttgart designed a wind-powered car. One example is the Ventmobile , built by University of Stuttgart students in 2008. A lot of the technology that we take for granted today was science fiction a few decades ago. The Toyota Mirai can run on wind-power. The Toyota Mirai is a little bit different.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

365,133 (US$475,000) of the grant will be used to fund project activities at Ilika. Since 2008, Ilika has been working with Toyota on the development of novel battery chemistries. Other partners in the project are Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd, the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed. The project received a $1 million grant from Xcel Energy’s Renewable Development Fund.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

US Environmental Protection Agency Grants Testing Waiver. In February, 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie, Inc. 2008) Hydrous Ethanol for Gasoline Blending: New Science Promises Cost and Energy Savings , 17 th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels, 13-16 October 2008, Tiayuan, China. Earlier GCC post.] Brewster, S.C.,

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 1993, Cox went from Bellcore, a breakoff from Bell Labs, to Stanford University, where he served as a professor of electrical engineering. EV education The next year, Cox’s renewed interest in EVs motivated him to launch a class on the topic at Stanford. “I Sound familiar?” as the sixtieth vehicle that Tesla delivered to customers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Initial target markets are mass transit systems (both for recycling the kinetic energy of trains and trams and to allow discontinuous electrification to reduce infrastructure costs) and electric power stabilization for renewable energy applications. MLC Flywheel Evaluation for Transportation by University of Texas.

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MARCH 6, 2010

There are four general categories of offsets: (1) biological sequestration projects; (2) renewable energy projects; (3) energy efficiency projects; and (4) non-CO 2 emissions reduction projects. (1) 2) Examples of Renewable Energy Projects. The cap would make fossil fuels more expensive and renewable energy sources more attractive.

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JULY 4, 2010

Researchers at North Carolina State University are developing an ozone-based pre-treatment technique (ozonolysis) to release sugars from the energy grass miscanthus for production into renewable fuels or chemicals with minimal generation of chemical waste streams and degradation of the carbohydrate components.

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JULY 30, 2021

He was granted two U.S. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Grosz was also an adjunct engineering professor at Tulane University , also in New Orleans, for two years. Naval Research Laboratory.

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JUNE 26, 2007

As part of this initiative, Google.org awarded $1 million in grants and announced plans for a $10 million request for proposals (RFP) to fund development, adoption and commercialization of plug-ins , fully electric cars and related vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power. 2008] and methane [Schutz et al., This work was supported by grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, the NASA high-end computing program, and the National Science Foundation.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

It first gasifies the feedstock to syngas (CO and H 2 ), then uses proprietary microorganisms—licensed from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma—to convert simultaneously both CO and H 2 into ethanol. There is pent-up demand for cellulosic biofuels, given the RFS (Renewable Fuels Standard). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 22, 2010

Additionality is proof that the renewable-energy project would not happen without the capital generated by selling carbon credits. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link]. To be credible as offsets, the emissions reduced, avoided, or sequestered must be additional to business-as-usual (i.e.,

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The University of Massachusetts Amherst recently granted a biofuels startup company, Anellotech , exclusive global rights to the university’s catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) technology developed by chemical engineer and UMass Amherst faculty member George Huber for producing renewable biogasoline and other biohydrocarbon fuels.

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MAY 13, 2010

According to the recently finalized Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 , net US GHG emissions in 2008 were down 2.7% After the initial transition period, revenues go into a Universal Refund that will increase until all revenues not spent to reduce the deficit are refunded directly to consumers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

More than 35,000 fuel cell systems were shipped in 2013, an increase of more than 26% over 2012 and 400% more than 2008. Approximately 300 different entities were granted fuel cell patents in 2013. million in grants to build new and upgrade existing hydrogen fueling stations around the state.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ).

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. What cannot be argued is the fact that fossil fuels are non-renewable.

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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. The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

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