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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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Water and oxygen are the only by-products. In return, this plant supplies the highly concentrated CO 2 required as a basic building block for the e-gas. It is anticipated that the e-gas from Werlte will power 1,500 new Audi A3 Sportback g-tron vehicles for 15,000 kilometers (9,321 miles) of CO 2 -neutral driving every year.

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Audi partner Joule announces its CO2-recycled ethanol meets US and Euro specs; $40M financing

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These efforts include fuel testing and validation, lifecycle analysis and support for Joule’s production facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, where demonstration-scale production of ethanol is underway. New financing. This will lead to the longer-term build-out of a 1,000-acre plant to begin in 2017.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT) will pursue high-performance and easy-to-deploy water treatment systems that can turn both wastewater and seawater into clean drinking water.

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Video Friday: Dronut

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GRVC ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the atrium of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. KAIST ] Honda and Black & Veatch have successfully tested the prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) at a construction site in New Mexico. ugo ] Robot, make me a sandwich.

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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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A precise amount of ground biomass is fed into a moving tray; at the first heating and processing stage, the function is to drive off entrapped water, and to perform the first step of de-hydration of the biomass while mechanically compacting it for more effective heat transfer at later stages of processing. Depending on the temperature (300

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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DOE Funding: $1,461,772; Non-DOE Funding: $377,848; Total Value: $1,839,620 Area of Interest 14b — Hydrogen Production From Produced Water HALO: Hydrogen-Recovery Using an AI-Arc-Plasma Learning Operational System for Produced Water — Oceanit Laboratories, Inc.

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