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

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And unlike conventional nuclear fission, fusion comes with no risk of meltdowns or weaponization, and no long-lived nuclear waste. According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951. Fusion reactions have powered the sun since it formed an estimated 4.6

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UMass Amherst Licenses Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Technology to Startup Anellotech to Produce Renewable Biogasoline

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Huber’s patent-pending technique offers a low-cost, single-step process for turning sawdust, woody stalks and other waste biomass into gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and valuable chemical commodities such as benzene, toluene and xylenes. Aspen Plus software will be used for process design simulation. Earlier post.).

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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 anticipated benefits of this sorbent process are greater than 20 percent reduction in the energy required for sorbent regeneration, the potential to use waste heat for sorbent regeneration, increase in sorbent lifetime/stability due to lower regeneration temperature, and lower sorbent replacement cost due to the increased stability.

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Tales From the Beat Episode 108: Dan Roth

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It was this forgettable vehicle that was a Chrysler version of a Dodge Durango called the Chrysler Aspen. Oh, I remember the Aspen, yeah. And I'll tell you what it was. Yeah, it had a life about as long as a flea. Um, it was a hybrid though. But I mean, that's what it takes. Maybe they don't have one or access. Well, yeah.