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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., million, with $6.4

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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NIST grant to significantly expand the Center for Applied Energy Research Laboratory’s (CAER) capabilities with a new 36,000-square-foot (3,344-square-meter) building dedicated to research in the biomass and biofuels industries, advanced distributed power generation and storage, and technologies for electric vehicles.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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DARPA designed the competition to advance practical robotics in extreme conditions, based around three distinct underground environments: human-made tunnels, the urban underground, and natural caves. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. IEEE Spectrum. Can you talk about that?

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. of Georgia). Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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Georgia Institute of Technology. It is always a learning process to discover how the robots respond to new classes of obstacle; responding to this on the fly in a new environment is extremely challenging. We also deployed the robots in an old underground fortress to examine the system in an urban-like underground environment.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Building Efficiency (3 projects). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. Energy Efficient Capture of CO 2 from Coal Flue Gas. BUILDING EFFICIENCY. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Water (1 project).

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