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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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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas.

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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Triadelphia, WV) This project will pilot-test an open-pond algae production technology that can capture at least 60% of flue gas CO 2 from an industrial coal-fired source to produce biofuel and other high value co-products. Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd. The host site for the pilot project is Cedar Lane Farms in Wooster, Ohio.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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University of Texas, Austin. Discover, understand, and control efficient chemical pathways for the conversion of coal and biomass into chemicals and fuels. University of Texas, Austin. Louisiana State University. Center for Interface Science: Hybrid Solar-Electric Materials (CIS:HSEM). $15. Argonne National Laboratory.

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