Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Waste Management and Genomatica, an industrial biotech company targeting sustainable chemicals ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic joint development agreement to research and advance Genomatica’s technology and manufacturing processes to enable production of intermediate and basic chemicals from syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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APRIL 9, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced the availability of $61.4 million for technologies that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels. ( The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced the availability of $61.4

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MAY 20, 2021

Arriving in spring 2022, F-150 Lightning will be available in four series and two battery options at more than 2,300 EV-certified Ford dealers across the country, with the option for fleet customers to access Ford’s complete ecosystem of connected data and telematics services via Ford Commercial Solutions. -ft. With the ability to offload 9.6

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JUNE 26, 2020

The IDEALFUEL project aims to create sustainable alternatives by developing new efficient and low-cost methods to produce low-sulfur heavy fuel oils from wood-based non-food biomass. Although cleaner fuels are available, many companies opt for HFOs due to their low cost.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) plans to make $160 million in federal funding ( DE-FOA-0002400 ) available to help recalibrate the US’ vast fossil-fuel and power infrastructure for decarbonized energy and commodity production. Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell Technology (SOEC) Development.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Central to the project is the use of a compact high-speed flywheel as an energy store, recycling the kinetic energy that would otherwise be wasted whenever the vehicle brakes. Flywheel hybrids, just like electrical hybrids, recycle the kinetic energy that would otherwise be wasted when the vehicle brakes.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

GMZ Energy’s proprietary platform technology enables the low-cost manufacturing of bulk thermoelectric materials. The unique properties of half-Heusler materials combined with proprietary module fabrication techniques enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing of half-Heusler modules yielding a cost per watt below $1.00

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MAY 25, 2017

Production of C 5 hydrocarbons from waste biomass. Obtaining sustainable sources of chemicals and processing organic waste in an environmentally responsible manner remains a challenge. This proposal aims to solve these problems by converting organic waste into chemicals with widespread use in polymer and transportation industries.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Earlier post.). Source: ARPA-E.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Colorado State University. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 2,089,647. . Yale University.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Alphabet Energy is commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Earlier post.). —Doug Crane, Director of Thermoelectric Engineering, Alphabet Energy. —Matt Scullin, founder & CEO, Alphabet Energy.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). are expected to be widely available only as supercritical CO 2 in pipelines destined for geologic storage.

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APRIL 3, 2013

The findings of their study, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, International Edition , suggest that cell-free biosystems could produce hydrogen from biomass xylose at low cost. Mielenz said Zhang’s process could find its way to the marketplace as quickly as three years if the technology is available. earlier post ).

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Virginia Hydrogen Production Low Cost 331

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. This project will develop a new process that enables low-cost, domestic manufacturing of magnesium.

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Carbon Fiber Lithium Ion Li-ion Vehicles 268

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Hydrogen production from fossil fuels, coupled with carbon capture, utilization, and storage, can generate low-cost hydrogen with net-negative carbon emissions. Waste plastics could be added to the fuel mix to produce large quantities of hydrogen and to mitigate the impact of plastics in the environment.

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JULY 25, 2011

MixAlco converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable fuels. SoluPro, a bio-products process that converts inexpensive protein-bearing waste material into animal feed and green commercial adhesives.

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Renewable Fuel Houston Texas 199

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

However, a green recycling or upcycling solution that will simultaneously convert low-value asphaltene into high-value carbon materials/allotropes and develop end products appropriate for a myriad of engineering applications is still unrealized. Consequently, research on the valorization of asphaltenes has sparked over the past few years.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

The new DOE funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0001622 ) focuses on the second of these pathways which is focused on securing applications for projects that will develop CO 2 -utilization technologies that produce useful products at lower cost than currently available technologies, without generating additional greenhouse gas emissions.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) program ( DE-FOA-0001197 ) aims to develop low-cost, highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants. Dry-cooling systems—which use air to cool and transfer waste heat—are an appealing and potentially transformational alternative.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Maverick Synfuels announced the availability of the Maverick Oasis BG Gas-to-Liquid methanol plant product line. The factory-built plants are designed to be low-cost, efficient and reliable facilities, optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy has applied its expertise in biological engineering along with core capabilities in DNA synthesis and directed evolution to enable development of metabolic pathways for the biotransformation of novel low-cost feedstocks into high value sustainable products.

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Building Energy Asia Waste 170

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

Commercial and residential building heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems accounted for 14% of the nation’s total energy consumption in 2013, and about a quarter of that energy is wasted by heat leaking through windows.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The more energy there is available at low cost, the more it will be used. When the vehicle’s driver calls for energy, a computer analyses the needs, finds the most readily available and efficient source (solar, Rankine, etc.) Waste heat recovery. —Claude Covo, project director.

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2015 Vehicles Solar Waste 247

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Developed again in partnership with TEES, Terrabon’s MixAlco is an advanced bio-refining technology that converts low-cost, readily available, non-food, non-sterile biomass into valuable chemicals such as acetic acid, ketones and alcohols that can be processed into renewable gasoline fuels.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The agreement, Sweetwater’s second such ( earlier post ), has a total potential value in excess of $100 million, and requires a minimal capital outlay by Front Range while stabilizing the company’s feedstock costs.

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Range Energy Colorado Low Cost 231

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The bill follows the urging of Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to increase funds available for the development of nuclear power facilities and technology. 50 million per year for 10 years for much needed research to extend the lifetime of our current nuclear fleet and maximize the production of low-cost nuclear power.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

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.

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

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APRIL 15, 2022

Especially for sources like wind and solar, which have discontinuous availability. If you can truly freeze out that self-discharge mechanism, could these battery systems sit somewhere for years and…[when needed] be heated up by a readily available means?” We want to freeze the electrolyte at ambient temperature, right? “One

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Molten Salt Energy Batteries Battery 112

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The magnetic coupling also enables the unit to operate in a permanently sealed vacuum and permits ease of in-field maintenance for high availability applications. —Ricardo VP of Innovation David Rollafson. Click to enlarge.

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Energy Storage Las Vegas Energy Production 225

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Performance and efficiency match the current ISL G, with engine ratings from 250-320 horsepower, and 660-1,000 lb-ft torque available. RNG is a pipeline-quality gas that's fully interchangeable with conventional natural gas, yet can be produced by reusing waste products. as the 0.20 g/bhp-hr NO x ISL G.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

The committee concluded that the NETs available today could be safely scaled up to capture and store a significant fraction of the total emissions both in the US and globally, but not enough to keep total global warming below two degrees Celsius, the target of the Paris agreement. However, it is currently limited by high cost.

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MAY 10, 2011

The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass. G2BioChem’s technology is feedstock agnostic and optimizes next-generation ethanol yields using all available sugars. Distillation, evaporation, energy optimization, and waste stream handling round out this last phase.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Nzyme2HC has novel acellular biological approach to scalable/clean/potentially low-cost H 2 generation. Combining minimal electric current, bacterially-extricated hydrogenase, and industrial waste as the feedstocks/production materials. Nzyme2HC LLC.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

The method can be applied to other electrode materials, too, making energy-dense, low-cost battery materials a realistic possibility. There are huge challenges associated with using low-cost,micrometre-sized Si source materials. —Yi Cui. Here we introduce a method to encapsulate Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm).

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain. Earlier post.).

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