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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. University of Alabama. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste.

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Vitruivan crowd-sourcing funding for novel biofuel from sewage treatment bio-solids

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EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Data collected with colleagues at the University of Alabama have shown 70-90% conversion of feedstock to SCFAs (short chain fatty acids).

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Combined with AC Transit’s already-installed solar capacity, this solar installation will produce the renewable electricity equivalent to what will be required to produce 180 kg/day of green hydrogen. Montgomery Area Transit System, Alabama: $2,675,000. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. National Renewable. University of Alabama. type Hexaferrite The University of Alabama led team will demonstrate. resulting in reduced cost for renewable solar electricity. light energy.

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