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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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Resolution Copper project advances in US permitting; one of largest and deepest copper mines in US

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Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper project in Arizona has achieved a major permitting milestone with the release of an independently prepared Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the project. Water use is a major concern among the public, other government agencies, and stakeholders.

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DISCOVR project seeking high productivity algae to reduce cost of biofuels

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Culture Tier II strains are being validated om PNNL’s LEAPS photobioreactors using light and temperature scripts generated by PNNL’s Biomass Assessment Tool (BAT) for Arizona testbeds. The DISCOVR project workflow. Numbers in red designate the number of strains tested at each TIER. Source: BETO peer review.Click to enlarge.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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Watering the Sustainability Dream. In 2016, IKEA formed a partnership with Electrify America to develop an electric vehicle (EV) delivery service. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US.

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Obama Administration announces actions to sustain and advance nuclear energy in US

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Convening Second Workshop on Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors: The NRC and DOE will hold the Second Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors Workshops in spring 2016. Recommendations are expected to DOE by February 2016. It is expected that the first SMR design application will be submitted to the NRC in late-2016.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. Well let’s see, they want to do a million roofs by 2016 and they’re up to 70,000 now. Pumping things, water pumping.

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Jervois to acquire SMP nickel & cobalt refinery in Brazil; concentrate from Idaho for refining, cobalt metal back to US

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It was placed on care and maintenance by CBA in 2016, when CBA also placed its Niquelandia mine and processing plant in Brazil on care and maintenance due to prevailing market conditions at the time. M3 Engineering (M3) based in Tucson, Arizona, prepared capital and operating cost estimates to BFS level of accuracy (+/- 15%).

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