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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. Idaho National Laboratory.

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UT Austin to lead $58M study of methane hydrate in Gulf of Mexico; $41M from DOE

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A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments.

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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.

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Tesla supplier Samsung is building a $17B chip factory 40 mins away from Giga TX

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million square feet, the Taylor facility would be over four times the size of the company’s Austin plant, which was affected by the state’s power issues earlier this year. The chips used in Tesla’s FSD computer are produced at Samsung’s Austin site. Samsung’s upcoming $17 billion chip plant is remarkable.

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Tesla’s permit for its battery factory in Texas is challenged by environmentalists

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A group of environmentalists is asking the city of Austin to withhold Tesla’s permit for its upcoming battery cathode material factory next to Gigafactory Texas over concerns about water supply along the Colorado River.

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UT Austin team and partners report on extensive measurements of methane emissions during natural gas production

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Source: UT Austin. During hydraulic fracturing, liquids that typically consist of water, sand and additives are injected at high pressure into low-permeability formations. In a liquids unloading, wells are cleared of water and other liquids that are inhibiting production. Click to enlarge.

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Satellite study shows drought-stricken Colorado River Basin states depleting their groundwater

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A new satellite study finds more than 75% of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought. This is a lot of water to lose.

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