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President Obama launches $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership; Ford involved as an initial partner

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US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. high-quality jobs in the United States.

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Report finds says “negative emissions technologies” need to play a large role in mitigating climate change

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Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and chair of the committee. This means that advances in NETs will benefit the US economy if the intellectual property is held by US companies. —Stephen Pacala, the Frederick D. Some of these efforts already include negative emissions technologies.

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Korean consortium forming JV with Bolivian miner Comibol for lithium production in Salar de Uyuni

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The joint venture will also pave the way for Asia’s fourth-largest economy to take part in a project to develop lithium carbonate in the region, officials said. “Korea’s advanced technology and Bolivia’s resources will create synergy.” Korea has been spurring its drive to secure scarce minerals in the Latin American region.

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Study: even with high LDV electrification, low-carbon biofuels will be necessary to meet 80% GHG reduction target; “daunting” policy implications

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These cases span 5 levels of electrification, 3 levels of demand growth, 3 rates of technology advancement, and 3 levels of economy-wide carbon intensity. The low carbon economy assumes electricity is decarbonized by 80% and petroleum has 15% lower GHG intensity than current levels. Still, it is technically achievable.

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IEA report calls for no investment in new fossil fuel supply and end to sales of ICE cars by 2035

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The report is the first comprehensive study of how to transition to a net zero energy system by 2050 while ensuring stable and affordable energy supplies, providing universal energy access, and enabling robust economic growth. C, according to the new report, Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector.

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Study suggests current levels of methane leakage would result in numerous decades of more rapid climate change from a shift to natural gas vehicles

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Pacala, Princeton University; James J. Chameides, Duke University; and Steven P. After 150 years, a CNG fleet would have produced about 10% less cumulative radiative forcing than a gasoline fleet: a benefit equivalent to a fuel economy improvement of 3 mpg in a 30 mpg fleet. Alvarez, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF); Stephen W.

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Researchers develop four-step catalytic process to produce petroleum refinery feedstocks from biomass sugars

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A team of researchers led by James Dumesic and George Huber, both now at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have demonstrated how C 5 sugars derived from hemicellulose can be converted into a high-quality petroleum refinery feedstock via a four-step catalytic process. Source: Olcay et al. Click to enlarge.

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