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Hyperbaric Centrifuge Technology Successfully Dewaters Coal Fines

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A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., Roe-Hoan Yoon. as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. million over four years, with $27.6

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.”

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Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

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Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. America gets one-fifth of our electricity from nuclear energy.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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In partnership with a consortium of local research institutions, this project deploy smart grid systems at partners’ university campus properties and technology transfer laboratories. (DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Pecan Street Project (TX). 29,561,142.

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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Geologic storage is currently focused on five types of formations:(1) depleted oil and gas reservoirs, (2) deep saline formations, (3) unmineable coal seams, (4) oil- and gas-rich organic shales, and (5) basalts. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.)

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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