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

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It’s a capital-light solution that takes advantage of technology that has been commercialized for decades. 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.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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The team’s use of permanent magnets may not be the ticket to producing commercial-scale energy, but PPPL’s accelerated design-build-test strategy could crank out new insights on plasma behavior that could push the field forward more rapidly. Many magnetic-confinement designs—including the $24.5 But the invention was ahead of its time.

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NREL report estimates gasoline produced from biomass could cost about the same as ethanol

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A conventional steam cycle produces heat (as steam) for the gasifier and reformer operations and electricity for internal power requirements (with the possibility to export excess electricity as a co-product). The two product streams are LPG and gasoline. Heat & Power.

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Tesla Giga Mexico construction preparations continue

Teslarati

Present 30%, 60%, [and] 90% model reviews to stakeholders and multi-discipline teams Effectively and proactively communicate project needs, changes, and status to both internal and external team members Conduct meetings and coordinate permitting agencies to obtain jurisdictional approvals of civil engineering scope.

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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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will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX. Praxair will complete an initial engineering design study for a Linde-BASF CO 2 capture system at a commercial steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen plant in Convent, LA.

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A First Timer’s Guide to Skiing in Japan

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The price of an international flight is easily outweighed by the relatively low cost of access to endless powder and excellent facilities. Its actually cheaper for me to fly to Japan and go skiing there than to spend a week at a place like Aspen or Vail, Ms. With the U.S. Dinner with sake, 1,400.

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Celebrating Steve Jobs’s Impact on Consumer Tech and Design

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The Macintosh, the iPhone, the iPad, and more The Macintosh , introduced in 1984, was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse. In a 1983 speech at the International Design Conference in Aspen, Colo.,

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