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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. The Opus 12 core invention combines new catalysts with a novel drop-in component that reprograms existing hardware to split CO?.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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The University of Akron in collaboration with Aspen Aerogels, Inc., If successful, the development of the proposed technology could help alleviate the impact of CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel usage on climate change. plans to determine the cost-effectiveness of a low vacuum swing adsorption process for DAC.

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EPA Proposes New Regulations for Renewable Fuel Standard to Implement Requirements of EISA; GHG Reduction and Indirect Land Use Change Effects Included

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The EPA GHG lifecycle analysis combines a suite of peer-reviewed process models and peer-reviewed economic models of the domestic and international agricultural sectors to determine direct and significant indirect emissions, respectively (GREET, FASOM, FAPRI, Winrock, GTAP, CENTURY, DAYCENT, ASPEN-based models, MOVES and NEMS).

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