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NREL releases comprehensive vision for deep decarbonization of transportation

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We envision a mobility system fueled with clean, renewable energy, delivered directly by vehicle electrification, or indirectly by low-carbon, energy-dense fuels and renewable hydrogen for those sectors, like marine and aviation, that are harder to electrify. —Chris Gearhart, director of NREL’s Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences.

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Argonne releases GREET 2020

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road, air, marine, and rail) and other end-use sectors, and energy systems. Vehicle technologies include conventional internal combustion engines, hybrid-electric systems, battery-electric vehicles, and fuel-cell-electric vehicles. Renewable natural gas and lactic acid production from wet waste feedstocks. Green ammonia.

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$27 million available for zero-emission trucks in California

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This is the first installment from the $90 million available for the Zero-Emission Class 8 Freight and Port Drayage Trucks category and will provide funding to replace freight trucks (including drayage), waste haulers, dump trucks, and concrete mixers. Combustion Freight and Marine Projects, administered statewide by South Coast AQMD.

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ARPA-E to award up to $5M to investigate extracting rare earth and other critical minerals from macroalgae

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Development of methods to extract critical minerals from the macroalgae at high output purities that can dovetail with existing and nascent macroalgal valorization streams developed for the other components of macroalgae such as carbon compounds, macroand micro-nutrients, utilizing existing waste streams from seaweed biorefineries.

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California Energy Commission awards Sierra Northern Railway team nearly $4M to demonstrate hydrogen switching locomotive; H2RAM

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The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels.

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CARB approves $423M plan to mitigate harm from Volkswagen defeat devices; significant investments in heavy-duty vehicles and equipment sectors

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There is also money to reduce emissions at freight facilities, marine projects and light-duty vehicle charging. The goal of this project category is to maximize NO x reductions by funding the most cost-effective zero-emission freight or marine projects. Staff proposes up to $1.35

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