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Faraday Institution to award up to £55M to five consortia for energy storage research

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The Faraday Battery Challenge is part of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), overseen by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to help transform the production of batteries for the future of electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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ARPA-E announces $11M for innovations in energy-water processing and agricultural sensing technologies; fourth, fifth OPEN+ cohorts

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Energy-Water cohort teams will develop new, energy-efficient processing technologies for industrial (particularly oil and gas) and municipal wastewater. Oregon State University (OSU) is developing a system for extracting clean irrigation water from hydraulic fracturing wastewater using low-grade solar or industrial waste heat.

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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At the heart of the problem are utility companies that refuse to pursue interregional transmission projects, and sometimes even impede them, because new projects threaten their profits and disrupt their industry alliances. The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants.

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US/China team develops robust, stable Ni/Fe OER catalyst for water-splitting at low overpotentials

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This is primarily because low-cost electrocatalysts, instead of noble meal-based catalysts, can be utilized in alkaline media. Haiqing Zhou, Fang Yu, Qing Zhu, Jingying Sun, Fan Qin, Yu Luo, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen and Zhifeng Ren (2018) “Water splitting by electrolysis at high current density under 1.6

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DOE SBIR/STTR FY18 BES Phase 1 Release 1 awards include 15 for hydrogen and fuel cells

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This program utilizes novel manufacturing techniques combined with state of the art material analysis to produce low-cost, high-performance materials to enable commercialization. To demonstrate a low-cost fuel cell technology. pH Matter, LLC: High Performance Gas Diffusion Layer. Physical Sciences, Inc.: Giner, Inc.:

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Lloyd’s Register and UMAS release Zero Emission Vessels 2030 study

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The first milestone in the IMO greenhouse gas (GHG) Roadmap is rapidly approaching: MEPC (Marine Environment Protection Committee) 72 in April 2018, which will, inter alia , address the reduction of greenhouse gases from ships. 50/tonne CO 2 ) and without too great an increase to the capital cost of the ship. Click to enlarge.

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Gevo to deploy Shockwave process to lower the carbon intensity of its ethanol, isobutanol

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Shockwave’s Thermodynamic Corn Fractionation Process is a front-end corn fractionation platform that uses high velocity air and pressure changes to fractionate solid materials, providing an novel, low-cost approach to separating the corn kernel into the various fractions including a higher-starch feed for fermentation as well as germ and fiber.

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