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Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

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Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending into US commercial grades. Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas.

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BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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The findings suggest that developing nations are moving toward cleaner power but not nearly fast enough to limit global CO 2 emissions. The approximately 500 terawatt hours in new coal consumption is roughly equivalent to all the power consumed in Texas in a normal year. thousand terawatt-hours in 2018, up from 6.4 thousand in 2017.

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Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

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Air Products’ carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas captures 90% of the CO 2 via Vacuum Swing Adsorption from 2 steam-methane reformers (SMRs) yielding 1,000,000 tons CO 2 /year. The technology in the demo—the first of its kind operating at such a large scale—has not been accomplished anywhere else in the United States.

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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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The new grants—part of DOE’s Computational Materials Sciences (CMS) program launched in 2015 as part of the US Materials Genome Initiative—reflect the enormous recent growth in computing power and the increasing capability of high-performance computers to model and simulate the behavior of matter at the atomic and molecular scales.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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PHEVLERs running on electricity and biofuel are cleaner than conventional vehicles running on fossil fuels. [ 2 ] 2016 Chevrolet Volt Review – First Drive - HybridCars 05 Oct 2015. [ DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, September 2015. [ Greentech Media 12 May 2015. [ MIT News 15 Jan 2015. [

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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Other ancillary studies were led by Dr. Jeffrey Bemis, of Litron Laboratories, Rochester, New York; Dr. Lance Hallberg, of the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; and Dr. Daniel Conklin, of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. These ancillary studies evaluated endpoints not examined in the core study.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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This project will begin to fulfill Mountain Rides' goal of moving from diesel powered buses to cleaner, cheaper, easier to maintain battery electric buses. The City of Lubbock and local transit agency Citibus will receive funding to purchase Proterra 40' fast-charge electric buses that will be used on the Texas Tech University campus.

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