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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. Nelson Cardona-Martinez.

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NSF Awards $40M in 20 Grants for Research on Natural Systems, Including 8 Projects for Obtaining Hydrocarbons from Plants and Microorganisms

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The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. This organism has the potential to directly produce petroleum using a cellulose fermentation process that is essentially carbon neutral. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H.

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Doosan delivers first dual-fuel, low-speed engine to NASSCO shipyard

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The new engine is capable of operation on LNG and/or bunker C oil and will power the first of two 3,100-teu container ships ordered by TOTE, the American marine transportation company. The TOTE ME-GI engine will primarily operate on LNG, which is currently more competitively priced than bunker-C oil.

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80x30: U.S. Clean Energy Standard Accelerates Transition to Renewables

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To that end, the CES, over its non-indicative name (it has little in common with, for instance, Canada's Clean Fuel Standard ) is more than just carbon bookkeeping. Many US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico already have their own goals. If the success of similar state policies.is

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