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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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DOE reports show major potential for wave and tidal energy production near US coasts

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These new wave and tidal resource assessments, combined with ongoing analyses of the technologies and other resource assessments, show that water power, including conventional hydropower and wave, tidal, and other water power resources, can potentially provide 15% of our nation’s electricity by 2030.

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PNNL-Lanzatech team hits milestone on waste-gas-to-ethanol-to-jet project

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The accomplishment is part of the technology transfer process moving from bench top at PNNL to piloting at Freedom Pines, Georgia. With tight ASTM fuel specification requirements, both the demonstration of the process and the fit-for-purpose testing need to take place before the technology can be adopted commercially. Earlier post.).

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BASF to partner with Renmatix for the production of industrial sugars from biomass; bio-based precursors for chemicals and fuels

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The parties have also agreed to key financial terms for future commercial licenses, which BASF can exercise at its discretion. wood, agricultural-residues or straw) into industrial sugars using supercritical water (water at high temperature and pressure). BASF and US-based supercritical hydrolysis company Renmatix Inc.

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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AML’s contact-free current transfer would achieve 99% efficiency in DC electrical motors with 5-10 times the power and torque densities available in existing DC technologies. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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Highly efficient non-precious metal electrocatalyst for ORR in fuel cells and metal-air batteries

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Architectural features of tetrapod structures, commercially available melamine foam (inset), and a cross-sectional view (SEM image) of a fractured melamine foam after pyrolysis. The catalytic cathode must ensure that oxygen reacts with water, taking up electrons to form OH - ions in alkaline solution.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. Brian Minnick.

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