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AUGUST 12, 2013

Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released the preliminary design study for what he call “The Hyperloop”—a new high-speed electric transportation system targeted for the the specific case of high-traffic city pairs (e.g., For the study, the Hyperloop design team used a system servicing San Fransicso and Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For the first time, SpaceX has teamed up with researchers from NASA and several other US institutions to publicly discuss how it plans to use Starship to build Mars Base Alpha. billion NASA contract to build a human-rated Moon lander variant of Starship. In April, SpaceX also secured a $2.9

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JUNE 10, 2022

With this new A range, the company is building on the knowledge and experience it has gained in the area of eco-friendly buses for public urban and regional transport. In the design and development of the new A range, particular attention was paid to the weight, sustainability and modularity of the buses.

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MARCH 11, 2021

A unique cell design and process architecture offers an opportunity to reduce electricity consumption and increase hydrogen output, significantly lowering the cost of green hydrogen production from PEM electrolysis. Leveraging SINTEF’s work in its HieffPEM project, the Hystar technology features the use of a thin membrane.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Today’s announcement builds upon DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office’s (EERE’s) intention to invest up to $100 million over five years, subject to appropriations, to reduce the cost of fuel cells for trucks and of electrolyzers for hydrogen production.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Strategies outlined in the plan build on measures and commitments already made and range from the Advanced Clean Truck Measures and In-Use Locomotive Measure to a proposed zero-emissions space and water heaters measure, measures to reduce emissions from consumer products, and more. billion, which includes $33.8

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JULY 4, 2022

Building sustainable and clean energy systems will be harder, riskier and more expensive without nuclear, according to the new report, Nuclear power and secure energy transitions: From today’s challenges to tomorrow’s clean energy systems. —IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The roadmap includes three key programs: The Refinery of the Future , which aims both to reduce the capital cost of developing a refinery and to enable decarbonization of the alumina refining process. The technology also retains all the water from the original feedstock. The process reduces water consumption by up to 35%.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The group has shortlisted three designs and plan to have picked one by the end of 2024. This artist’s conception, which is not based on any specific design for a cargo ship, is intended to show the approximate scale of such a vessel. The first was the American NS Savannah , built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9

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AUGUST 13, 2021

However, these applications need the hydrogen refueling station to be in place in order to come to market, and they also need an affordable cost of hydrogen to be competitive with diesel for long-term operation and increased adoption. Enhance fueling performance through the inclusion of a thermal management subsystem in the station design.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. Cynar’s first plant is built and operating in Portlaoise, Ireland.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. Membrane Technology and Research (MTR) Inc.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

InventWood LLC will contribute to the decarbonization of buildings and enable built structures to store significantly greater amounts of carbon by scaling up a game-changing wood material, MettleWood, that is 60% stronger than construction grade steel but 80% lighter, much less expensive, and far more sustainable. Award amount: $12,000,000).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2024

Several recently published deep-dive analyses commissioned by NASA and the European Space Agency have thrown cold water on the hope that space solar power could affordably generate many gigawatts of clean energy in the near future. That’s one of the reasons we’ve pulled away from that approach and moved toward a flat design.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Production of Renewable Diesel, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Gasoline, and Marine Fuel from Lignocellulosic Biomass at Dramatically Improved Yield, Efficiency, and Cost”, $2,000,000. Scale-up of Hydrothermal Liquefaction with Supercritical Water Oxidation in an Integrated Biorefinery”, $579,673. Comstock Inc., MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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JULY 14, 2023

It burns clean, generating only water as a by-product, and when it’s produced through electrolysis by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, the entire life cycle can be very environmentally friendly. In order for hydrogen to be a viable source of clean energy, the cost of electrolysis needs to be much lower.

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MARCH 23, 2023

Clean hydrogen production for domestic demand has the potential to scale from If water electrolysis dominates as the production method, up to 200 GW of new renewable energy sources would be needed by 2030 to support clean hydrogen production. have had overnight capital costs over $10,000 per kW.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS Phase 1 teams will design, model, and optimize CCS processes that enable flexibility on a high-VRE grid. Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. 8 Rivers Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. FERMI will substantially shorten the overall design cycle and reduce costs, while significantly improving accuracy.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. DOE funding: $741,194 Non-DOE: $188,333 Total: $929,527. University of Illinois.

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JUNE 4, 2018

MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time. GW by 2050.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 17, 2023

Tritium is currently revamping its supply chain to make the sleek liquid-cooled DC fast chargers built at its new Tennessee factory compliant with NEVI and Build America regulations. Charged spoke with Tritium Chief Sales Officer David Nicholl about building cost-effective EV charging sites that provide top-notch service to drivers.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Cost of carbon abated for transport applications. The essential first condition that must be satisfied, according to the report, is that feedstock specification and the process design are matched; the gasifier in particular can not be omnivorous. Cost of carbon abated. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The DOE Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) Clean Coal Research Program (CCRP) is pursuing research, development and demonstration (RD&D) to decrease the cost of electricity (COE) and capture costs and increase base power plant efficiency, thereby reducing the amount of CO 2 that has to be captured and stored per unit of electricity generated.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc. Vojin Zivojnovic of AGGIOS, Inc.

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MAY 2, 2017

Toyota’s Project Portal is designing a heavy-duty hydrogen fuel cell system for class 8 truck use at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Ricardo provided technical assistance to the project, including areas of design, vehicle build, testing and development, and is currently supporting vehicle trials. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 19, 2023

US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today. Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. Conventional, or gray, hydrogen: $1.50

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APRIL 26, 2019

The team in Decherd assembles an engine every 19 seconds and is capable of building about 1.4 However, since aluminum cannot endure the friction and heat that arises in the cylinder itself, designs also use a cast iron cylinder liner. First, by removing the cylinder liner, the design realizes a lighter engine.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Starship is a fully-reusable, two-stage liquid rocket designed to ultimately cut the cost of orbital launch by at least one magnitude, opening the door for humanity’s sustainable expansion to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and even beyond. SpaceX is building launch pad tanks out of Starship parts and that’s a big deal.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 15, 2012

The hot-water storage tank stores heat exhausted from the power generator as hot-water. A back-up boiler supplies hot-water and heating in case the hot-water storage tank is empty. tons while also reducing annual energy costs of about ¥76,000 (US$916) compared to ordinary gas-powered hot-water supply and heating units.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. EnZinc Inc. Dendrite Free Zinc? 4,000,000.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 12, 2021

Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

These selected projects are aimed at reducing the costs and improving the performance of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, such as finding ways to lower costs of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs), a critical component of fuel cell stacks and electrolyzers. Oorja Fuel Cells. Proton Energy Systems.

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MAY 12, 2017

Among other things, the demonstration project will evaluate the reduction in steam requirements with the goal to develop a technology that can potentially significantly lower the cumulative steam-to-oil ratio and water treatment costs associated with steam generation. MEG Energy: enhanced Modified VAPor Extraction.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

The group received $5 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) earlier this summer to design and test the technology. Between five and ten percent of the water injected in these systems is lost as it travels through the pore spaces. The technology could help offset the cost of geologic carbon storage. Earlier post.).

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