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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. Earlier post.). Depending on the temperature (300 ?C

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Tesla seeking 56% cut in $/kWh, $25K EV in three years through manufacturing and design innovations

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Gigafactory Nevada currently has a capacity of about 0.15 Viewed another way, from a smaller footprint than Giga Nevada, Tesla could get many times the cell output. Tesla will build a new cathode facility in North America, and co-locate lithium conversion at that site, using a new acid-free saline extraction process.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. combustor of a natural gas turbine, facilitating its conversion into a. If successful, this.

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Partners Target Biomass-to-Liquids Demo Plant for Toledo

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Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

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When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. That was quite a conversion.” He has a lot of credits to his name, including recommending the double-paned windows on New York’s Empire State Building.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID): $30 Million. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization. Description. Advanced Cooling Technologies.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. HVAC upgrades include DDC control system covering all buildings, expanded control system with advanced control strategies. Minneapolis-St.

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