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GM and US Army TARDEC to reveal Chevy Colorado-based fuel cell vehicle

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General Motors and the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) will reveal a Chevrolet Colorado-based fuel cell electric vehicle in October at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington, D.C. The Army intends to conduct user assessments and demonstrations in 2017.

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

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More than 2,000 fuel cell vehicles have been sold or leased in the US since 2015. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. High Efficiency PEM Water Electrolysis Enabled by Advanced Catalysts, Membranes and Processes. Scalable Elastomeric Membranes for Alkaline Water Electrolysis.

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Study Finds Regional Variations in Irrigation Practices Can Push Corn Ethanol Water Requirements 3x Higher Than Earlier Estimates; Need to Account for Regional Specifics in Mandates

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The foreground bar height indicates the EWe of each state, with the portion of ground and surface water indicated by color. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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TCEP will begin delivering CO 2 to Whiting when the plant commences operations in late 2014 or early 2015; construction is scheduled to begin at the end of this year. formed naturally in underground reservoirs in New Mexico and Colorado and brought to the surface by wells such as those used to produce natural gas. Earlier post.).

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EPA honors winners of the 20th Annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge; advanced biofuels

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Renmatix, For Small Business.

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Study: new international agreements needed to ensure sustainable supply of minerals and metals for low-carbon energy tech

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Within international waters, metallic nodules found in the vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific as well as in cobalt and tellurium crusts, found in seamounts worldwide, provide some of the richest deposits of metals for green technologies. million light-duty passenger cars to 965 million passenger cars. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Saleem H.

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Microbial Capacitive Desalination Cell could make treatment and reuse of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper

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The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive. A description of the technology—microbial capacitive desalination—was recently published in an open access paper in the RSC journal Environmental Science Water Research & Technology as the cover story.

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