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New recycling solution introduced to treat Marcellus Shale flowback frac water

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a privately held water desalination company in. Albuquerque, NM, is seeking to provide a solution to the environmental issues surrounding the treatment of mineral?laden laden brackish water from Marcellus Shale drilling. Brackish, salty water produced from drilling for natural gas. Rutland, VT, and Altela, Inc.,

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DOE Selects Laboratory-led Projects for up to $11M to Support Development of Advanced Water Power Technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.) DOE Marine and Hydrokinetic Technologies listing.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. Ground Water Protection Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Okla. million (DOE share: $6.9

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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The collaboration, forged by the White House in partnership with DOE and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Air Force and US Army, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is centered on a set of Guiding Principles to Promote Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure. Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA).

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

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with a resistor) to actively transporting heat from a colder location to a warmer one with a device called, appropriately enough, a heat pump (note, however, that it takes work to oppose the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that heat naturally flows from hotter to colder locations).

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Porous Transport Electrodes for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers, $450,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. Alkaline Water Electrolysis, $100,000. AltaRock Energy, Inc.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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A specialized molten salt transport system will then move the high-temperature fluid to a molten-salt steam generator that produces electricity. Albuquerque, NM – up to $4.3 Wilson TurboPower is utilizing a small transportable turbine power system in a modular CSP solar power tower configuration. SkyFuel, Inc.

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