Remove Affordable Remove Coal Remove Conversion Remove Indiana
article thumbnail

DOE selects 9 universities for about $2.7M in advanced coal technologies research awards

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. The projects selected for awards include: Improved Alloys. DOE Share: $299,992; Recipient Share: $142,220). DOE Share: $293,519).

Coal 250
article thumbnail

Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

He also highlighted innovative companies that are focusing as much on potential co-products from the grains they process as they are on the starch to ethanol conversion. Osage believes winter barley can offer the farmers a compelling value equation while providing Osage with an affordable feedstock.

article thumbnail

The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

Cars That Think

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Affordability is expected to be just one highly contentious issue: Who, exactly, is going to pay for grid upgrades? Such is the case with the Biden Administration’s attempted transition of the U.S.

Grid 93
article thumbnail

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

Plug-in 45