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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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FracMan / dfnWorks: Translating Geological Fracture Characterizations for Massively Parallel Subsurface Flow and Transport Simulations, $750,000 Golder Associates Inc., Novel thermal process for conversion of CO2 to CO using metal ferrite oxygen carriers, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Redmond, Wash. Tempe, Ariz.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Account for the entire quantity of CO 2 that has been transported to geologic storage sites. Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va. Verify the location of CO 2 that has been placed in geologic storage. Mathematically simulate the placement, storage, movement, and release of CO 2 into, through, and from geologic formations.

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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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The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Connecticut Department of Transportation, Connecticut: $7,000,000. The largest PV installation in Georgia.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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Arlington, Va.) Four main focus areas will be studied: physical and chemical aspects of CO 2 /shale interactions at pore scale; transport processes of critical-state CO 2 in hydrofracs, natural fractures, and pores; chemical interactions with groundwater; and trap and seal mechanisms of CO 2 in shale gas reservoirs.

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UTA researchers demonstrate one-step solar process to convert CO2 and H2O directly into renewable liquid hydrocarbon fuels

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures.

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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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superconducting” wire can transport hundreds of times more. Arlington). superconducting” wire can transport hundreds of times more. transportable like fuels, 100% renewable, rechargeable like a. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils.

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