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ExxonMobil invests $15M in University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute; renewable energy, battery technologies and power grid modeling

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ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change. This research will complement ExxonMobil’s recently announced partnership with FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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University of Texas at Austin study measuring methane emissions released from natural gas production

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A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Williston Basin (Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota): University of North Dakota plans to lead a coalition to drive the expansion and transformation of coal and coal-based resource usage within the Williston Basin to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals and produce non-fuel carbon-based products. DOE Funding: $1,499,999.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 awarded to developers of Li-ion battery

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Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin; M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University, State University of New York; and Akira Yoshino, Asahi Kasei Corporation, for the development of lithium-ion batteries. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 to John B. Yoshino’s battery.

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Port of Corpus Christi, Howard announce to convert Javelina refinery services facility to blue hydrogen production

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According to the MOU, Howard intends to capture its carbon emissions at Javelina, avoiding atmospheric release which contributes to global warming. Academics from the University of Texas at Austin have mapped the geology of the Texas Gulf Coast and have determined this region is suited for injection and storage of pressurized CO 2.

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Hydro-Québec, Université de Montréal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Süd-Chemie create entity for sublicensing of lithium iron phosphate battery materials; 4 new sublicensees

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LFP material was discovered at the University of Texas in Austin in 1995 and licensed to Hydro-Québec. When LFP material is coated with a thin layer of carbon, its conductivity is enhanced allowing LFP’s performance. Such a layer must be thin enough to permit the passage of lithium ions.

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N. American usage of car2go one-way carshare up 40% in 1H 2017 year-on-year to >4.5M trips

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Across the cities, we found that one-way carsharing services, like car2go, were responsible for removing up to 11 other vehicles from urban streets, while also reducing carbon emissions on net. million trips with car2go since the service launched in North America in late 2009 with its first location in Austin, Texas. car2go N.A.,

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