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Xcel Energy, INL to use nuclear energy for clean hydrogen production; HTSE

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Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will work with Idaho National Laboratory to demonstrate a system that uses a nuclear plant’s steam and electricity to split water. —Richard Boardman, national technical lead for the DOE Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program’s Flexible Plant Operations and Generation Pathway. Earlier post.)

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Fortistar and Paloma Dairy begin construction on RNG facility that will produce 1.6M GGE of fuel annually

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Fortistar and Paloma Dairy have begun construction on a dairy digester renewable natural gas (RNG) facility, the Sunoma Renewable Biofuel Project. million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) of vehicle fuel annually for the Class 8 trucking sector—enough fuel to move 10 million miles of freight.

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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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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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water management and treatment for power plant and CO 2 storage operations. The project has future applications for supercritical CO2 cycles in power plants, nuclear power, solar power and natural gas combined cycle units. Arizona State University. DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,500 (20% cost share).

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No regrets: A Phoenix mom moves beyond her gas-powered car and doesn’t look back

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Written by Amanda Goebel – During daily pick-up and drop-offs at her daughter’s elementary school in Phoenix, Arizona, Jazmin L.’s It’s because our car is different because it doesn’t need gas,” Jazmin told her daughter. It’s because our car is different because it doesn’t need gas,” Jazmin told her daughter.

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Global companies form below50 to scale up low-carbon sustainable fuels; Audi in from automotive sector

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A key outcome of the Low Carbon Technology Partnerships initiative ( LCTPi ), below50 is intended to grow a global corporate market for sustainable low-carbon transport fuels (LCTFs). Any company which produces, uses and/or invests in fuels that are at least 50% less carbon intensive than conventional fossil fuels can join below50.

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Freudenberg-NOK wins first regular-production order for dry gas-lubricated frictionless engine seals

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Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies (Freudenberg-NOK) has won its first major order for its new generation of dry gas-lubricated automotive seals—a first in the automotive market. The new seals function with a cushion of air, reducing both fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions.

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