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MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

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The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. A total of more than $1.6 million was awarded to 11 projects, each lasting up to two years.

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NCSU team develops catalyst for thermal hybrid water-splitting and syngas generation with exceptional conversion; H2 gas and liquid fuels

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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. Schematic of the hybrid process for liquid fuel and hydrogen generation. Image credit: Feng He.

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New photoelectrode with enhanced visible light absorption for improved solar water-splitting for hydrogen production

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A team of researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a new type of multilayered (Au NPs/TiO 2 /Au) photoelectrode that could boost the ability of solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen. Resources.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. The twenty-one projects will receive funding through the EPA’s DERA Fiscal Year 2014 allocation.

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Petrobras ready to launch renewable diesel production upon regulatory approval

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Petrobras will expand investments in the segment as soon as it is granted a permit, Lara said. Despite its early start, Petrobras put the commercialization of H-BIO on hold in 2014 due to the high price of soy oil at that time.). Low contaminant levels, preserving fuel injection systems and not impact emissions reduction catalysts.

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Euro Manganese to begin assembly of demo plant in Czech Republic; production targeted for December

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As the project recycles historic mine tailings, it will clean up the contaminated site and eliminate a longstanding source of water pollution. The deposit lay dormant until its mineral rights were granted in September 2014 to a Czech group of companies. Background. In May 2016, Euro Manganese Inc.

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California Energy Commission approves plans to invest nearly $500M in electricity R&D and alternative fuels

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The approved 2014-2015 Investment Plan Update for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, which accounts for about 40% of California''s carbon emissions. 299,910-grant to Santa Barbara County to develop an Alternative Fuels Readiness Plan.