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These products will be first introduced to the South Korean market in 2021 through an expanded partnership with SK Engineering and Construction (SK E&C), an affiliate of SK Group. Over time, it has improved the efficiency and aggressively reduced the cost of its products and expects this trend to continue.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement will reduce both the costs of critical materials and the environmental impacts of production. Umwelt- und Ingenieurtechnik GMbH Dresden, LNV LLC DOE funding: $21,989,530; Cost share: $21,989,530; Total costs: $43,979,060. 525 Solutions, Inc.;

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AUGUST 3, 2012

GE researchers, in partnership with Ford Motor Company and the University of Michigan, are developing a smart, miniaturized sensing system that has the potential to significantly extend the life of automotive traction batteries over the conventional battery systems used in electric vehicles today. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

(GlycosBio), an emerging biochemical company targeting metabolic engineering and microbiology innovations for the production of sustainable biochemicals, has become a member of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals ( CBiRC ).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Advanced ignition technologies, such as those offered by TPS, have been widely recognized as enablers to achieving higher combustion efficiency and lower emissions for gasoline-powered engines. The keys to commercialization have been demonstrating cost, size and optimized energy consumption in line with automotive requirements.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. University of Houston. Colorado School of Mines.

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MARCH 7, 2019

The selected projects will focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of NGVs, increasing vehicle efficiency, decreasing local air pollution, and advancing technology development to increase the use of more affordable medium- and heavy-duty natural gas engines and vehicles. Cummins Inc.

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MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The total cost of the project is $26.6 At full build out, Pasha will be the world’s first marine terminal able to generate all of its energy needs from renewable sources. million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These projects are intended to deliver high-impact tools and techniques for increasing the productivity of algae organisms in order to reduce the costs of producing algal biofuels and bioproducts. University of California, San Diego. University of Toledo. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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MARCH 23, 2021

This advanced smart charging initiative is available to all BMW’s battery electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) drivers in Northern and Central California who are also PG&E residential, electric customers. These incentives can offset the extra cost for some drivers, depending on their electricity rate.

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MARCH 16, 2014

Recent progress in engineering microbes has resulted in the production of biosynthetic alternatives to gasoline, diesel, and diesel precursors. More recently, others engineered E. A further combinatorial construction produced 32 mg/L of pinene, a 6-fold improvement over the highest titer previously reported in engineered E.

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JULY 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. MicroBio Engineering, Inc., Global Algae Innovations. Global Algae Innovations.

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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. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

In a process of adjustments to the original yeast, Yong-Su Jin at the University of Illinois and his colleagues converted it to one that will consume both types of sugar faster and more efficiently than any strain currently in use in the biofuel industry. Most yeast strains that are engineered to metabolize xylose do so very slowly.

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JULY 25, 2020

Scientists from ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new material that could capture more than 90% of CO 2 emitted from industrial sources using low-temperature steam, requiring less energy for the overall carbon capture process.

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The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut. Penn State University. University of Louisville. The project goal is to develop and imbed an SM workforce model that leverages existing education and workforce training systems in California.

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The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. 3 projects will reduce the cost of onboard hydrogen storage tanks necessary for fuel cell vehicles. These projects will pursue innovative approaches to developing novel precursors for high-strength carbon fiber at half the cost of current materials. Giner, Inc.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $7 million to fund four 3-year projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel-cell-electric vehicles. The selected organizations will provide close to $2 million in cost share. University of Oregon, up to $2.0

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

University chapters are the lifeblood of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu , the organization’s honor society. There are 269 chapters at universities worldwide. Support provided by universities to chapters varies widely, however—which can limit activities. A strong chapter helps ensure that members have a fulfilling experience.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The Commission’s funding is the cost-share for the company’s $6.2 The total cost of the project is $12.4 Click to enlarge. Seeo is contributing $5.6

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MARCH 31, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. The finding came out of ongoing research conducted at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and funded by SoCalGas. The Southern California Gas Company system alone is made up of over 100,000 miles of pipeline. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The California Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board released the annual Joint Agency Staff Report on Assembly Bill 8: 2016 Assessment of Time and Cost Needed to Attain 100 Hydrogen Refueling Stations in California. When the 2015 Joint Report was published, six stations were open retail. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Genetically engineered Arabidopsis plants (#89) yielded as much biomass as wild types (WT) but with enhanced polysaccharide deposition in the fibers of their cell walls. One of these challenges is finding ways to more cost-effectively extract those sugars. Engineering secondary cell wall deposition in plants. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A team from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has identified a novel biosynthetic alternative to #2 diesel—bisabolane—and has engineered microbial platforms for higher volume production of its immediate precursor, bisabolene. —Taek Soon Lee. Earlier post.) —Peralta-Yahya et al.

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For example, the University of California, San Diego will receive approximately $3.5 million to engineer a low-cost, low-weight battery and to redesign vehicle frames so the battery becomes an integral part of a vehicle’s support structure. University of Houston. Princeton University. University of Maryland.

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JULY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected three projects to receive up to $8 million, aimed at reducing the costs of producing algal biofuels and bioproducts. In partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, University of California at San Diego – Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the J.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Toyota showcased both its latest fuel cell vehicle concept (the FCV Concept, earlier post ), showing what the four-door mid-size sedan will look like in Radiant Blue; and the camouflage-taped engineering prototype used for extensive and extreme on-road testing in North America for more than a year. the California Fuel Cell Partnership.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The analysis combines process engineering, spatial optimization, and lifecycle assessment to consider the technical, economic, and institutional feasibility of near-term carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). 27 Mt per year) could be captured for less than $25 per metric ton. —LLNL scientist Sean McCoy, co-author.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Building on this progress, the new projects will help further reduce the cost of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, expand fueling infrastructure and build a strong domestic supply chain in the United States. Air Products, Altergy Systems, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Inc., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. CommScope Inc.,

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MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.” A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Global Research will collaborate with Arizona State University (ASU) and Cornell University on the project “Improving Models of Spray Breakup in Liquid Fuels Combustion”. The scientists hope to gain a better understanding of critical unsteady spray phenomena observed in fuel injectors used in today’s liquid-fueled engines.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Many were covered in detail during a day of presentations and site visits for partners and media held this past August in Ontario, California.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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MARCH 16, 2012

The tool grew out of a class assignment in which Professor Suh had students compare two vehicles—one having a conventional gas engine and the other a high-efficiency engine—in terms of their total lifetime costs. This net present value (NPV) calculation has yielded surprising results.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Direct air capture of carbon dioxide is a key technology that not only reduces the cost of algae biofuel production, but greatly increases the volume of algae biofuel that can be produced by enabling algae farms to be located anywhere. MicroBio Engineering Inc., gallon with over 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Metabolix in collaboration with North Carolina State University. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in collaboration with MicroBio Engineering. The Ohio State University in collaboration with the University of Alabama and Green Biologics. Grace and Company and Michigan Technological University. BETO awards.

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