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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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APRIL 6, 2018

A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting mushrooms, is capable of directly converting cellulose to biobutanol. Credit: National University of Singapore.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Canada’s National Research Council (CNRC) showcased Canada’s first algal biorefinery demonstration project, a collaborative research effort between CNRC’s Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) program, Pond Technologies and Votorantim Cimentos’ St Marys Cement.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

The inventors are Professor Richard Kohn and Faculty Research Associate Dr. Seon-Woo Kim from the University of Maryland (UMD). For the biogasoline process, the inventors developed microorganisms that grow on carbon dioxide, which can be obtained as a byproduct from many industrial and agricultural processes. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have been awarded a $50,000 National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to explore the commercialization potential of their new pathway for biojet from biomass waste. Butler from the University of Washington for the business aspects of the project. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

million) to six projects to further develop the UK’s low carbon vehicle capability. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment. The UK Department of Transport has awarded £24 million (US$37.5

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Develop a cellulosic butanol production process with high productivities, yields, and carbon conversion through novel metabolic engineering of two different pathways.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Audi has set the goal of successively reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared with reference year 2015 and over the entire product lifecycle. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

per kilogram of hydrogen at German natural gas prices—without taking the market value of the solid black carbon byproduct of the process into consideration. The main by-product of methane cracking—solid black carbon—is also an increasingly important industrial commodity. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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APRIL 8, 2014

To achieve this first objective, DOE intends to pursue parallel strategies: Advance options for diverse energy resources and conversion devices for power. DOE will continue to pursue carbon capture and storage technologies as well as nuclear power. By the end of FY 2015, achieve best in class solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at $1.85/watt

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JULY 17, 2015

Researchers from South Korea, the UK and Sweden have identified and prepared a new family of zeolites—crystalline aluminosilicates with frameworks that contain windows and cavities the size of small molecules—that can separate out carbon dioxide more effectively from fuel gases than those previously known.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

The global emissions of CO 2 doubled from 1975 to 2015, and are projected to triple by 2040 if we stay on our present course4. Improved energy management in buildings (e) and widespread diffusion of electric vehicles (f) are decreasing our carbon footprint. Where are we heading? Illustration courtesy of Paloma Liu.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

JCAP was established by the US Department of Energy in 2010 as an Energy Innovation Hub, with the goal of developing an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system and moving this system from the bench-top discovery phase to a scale where it can be commercialized. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Singh and Alexis T.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University’s Winthrop E. 1513488112.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). —Ren et al.

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JUNE 15, 2015

A team at McGill University in Canada has developed a reversible hydrogen storage/release system based on the metal-catalyzed hydrogenation and photo-induced dehydrogenation of organic cyclic hydrocarbons at room temperature. —Li et al. —Li et al. 5b03505.

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MARCH 22, 2015

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new noble metal-free catalyst—Ni 5 P 4 (nickel-5 phosphide-4)—performing on par with platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both strong acid and base. 2 , equivalent to ~10% solar photoelectrical conversion efficiency. 62 mV overpotential at ?100 100 mA cm ?2

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MAY 14, 2020

In FY2017, IHI Group began, in partnership with Kobe University, the NEDO supported R&D project “Development of Production Technologies for Bio jet fuels / Pilot scale test on once through production process” to produce algae-based biofuel, using the hyper-growth Botryococcus braunii. Feedstock(s): Same as Annex A1.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Top: Gravimetric PM mass, PM mass calculated based on the IPSD method, black carbon, and EC/OC emissions over the LA92 cycle. The found that using a GPF did not show any fuel economy and CO 2 emission penalties, while the emissions of total hydrocarbons (THC), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) were generally reduced.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

A team at RWTH Aachen University has identified ethyllevulinate and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran as promising alternatives to cellulosic bioethanol with respect to cost and environmental impact based on a large-scale reaction screening study. The catalytic conversion of furfural yields a mixture of octanol, butyltetrahydrofuran, and dioctylether.

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APRIL 11, 2015

A team at Beihang University in China has synthesized cathode materials for Li-sulfur batteries consisting of vertically aligned sulfur–graphene (S-G) nanowalls on electrically conductive substrates. carbon hybrids and demonstrated the improved electrochemical performances. —Li et al. 5b00064.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Researchers from Western Washington University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed a method to produce jet-fuel range hydrocarbons as a co-product of the production of algal biodiesel from the biomass of the industrially grown marine microalgae Isochrysis. Credit: ACS, O’Neil et al. Click to enlarge. —O’Neil et al.

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JUNE 16, 2015

Keiichi Tomishige and Dr. Yoshinao Nakagawa from Tohoku University’s Department of Applied Chemistry, and Dr. Hideo Watanabe from the University of Tsukuba. Distribution of products in carbon number from squalane hydrogenolysis over ruthenium supported on cerium oxide catalyst. Recently, Prof. Click to enlarge. Watanabe, H.,

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APRIL 7, 2015

A team of Virginia Tech researchers and colleagues has demonstrated the complete conversion of glucose and xylose from pretreated plant biomass to H 2 and CO 2 based on an in vitro synthetic enzymatic pathway crafted from more than 10 purified enzymes. Pathway depicting the enzymatic conversion of biomass to hydrogen and CO 2.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Researchers with the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), a partnership that includes Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, have introduced new metabolic pathways from the fungus Neurospora crassa into the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to increase the fermentative production of fuels and other chemicals from biomass.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The goal is to expand the network of publicly accessible hydrogen fueling stations to serve the current population of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and to accommodate the planned large-scale roll-out of FCVs commencing in 2015. applied at the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of. million, whichever is less.

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MAY 20, 2015

since natural gas has relatively low carbon intensity, releasing less carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per unit of usable energy than other fossil fuels, it is often assumed that switching to natural gas is comparatively beneficial for the climate. TWP results for diesel to natural gas HDT fleet conversions. L diesel to 11.9 Jonathan R.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

As the Science Editor notes, the net combustion reaction is simple to describe (oxygen reacts with hydrocarbons to form water and carbon dioxide) but the details are much more complicated. Thousands of chemical reactions are involved in the conversion of a fuel’s chemical energy into mechanical work in an automobile engine.

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MARCH 1, 2015

Researchers at Case Western University led by Prof. earlier post , earlier post ), represents a major breakthrough in removing the bottlenecks to translate low-cost, metal-free, carbon-based ORR (oxygen reduction reaction) catalysts to commercial reality in affordable and durable fuel cells. —Shui et al.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

One of the key findings in the California’s Energy Future Summary Report is that California will likely have limited availability of low-carbon biofuels for use in the transportation sector, because of biomass availability and competing uses for biomass for heat and power (CCST 2011). passenger cars and trucks) by 2050.

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JULY 7, 2015

The study, led by GLBRC scientist and Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies, and hybrid poplar trees. Resources.

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). Between 2008 and 2015, it is estimated that more than $15 billion will be spent to add processing capacity specifically for heavy crude blends in US refineries. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson.

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DECEMBER 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Ottawa (Canada) have developed a highly selective (>99%) tandem catalytic system—a bifunctional iridium catalyst coupled with bulky nickel or copper hydroxides—for the conversion of ethanol (up to 37%) to n-butanol, through the Guerbet process.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter nm-diameter CNTs traversing a large-area nonporous polysulfone film.

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MAY 28, 2015

million in the 2015 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Awards. Novel lithium-ion hybrid batteries based on Si-C composites anodes and porous carbon cathodes will be developed to bridge the gap with both high energy and power densities for hybrid vehicles. 150,000.00.

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The bill establishes an annual tonnage limit on greenhouse gas emissions from specified activities and directs the EPA Administrator to establish allowances equal to the tonnage limit for each year (with one allowance representing the permission to emit one ton of greenhouse gases, measured in tons of carbon dioxide equivalent).

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