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New Review Concludes Very Low EROI of Oil Shale Combined with High Carbon Intensity Likely Makes it an Unsuitable Alternative to Conventional Crude Oil

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Source: Cleveland and O’Connor. While one could argue that the char and gas produced and consumed within the shale conversion process has zero opportunity cost—i.e., While one could argue that the char and gas produced and consumed within the shale conversion process has zero opportunity cost—i.e., Cleveland and O’Connor.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y.

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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The company aims to transform the chemical industry through the cost-advantaged, smaller-footprint production of bio-based chemicals as direct replacements for major industrial chemicals that are currently petroleum-based in a trillion-dollar global market. Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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is recovering technical capabilities it lost two or three generations ago and is on track to returning astronauts to the moon,” says Bleddyn Bowen , associate professor at the University of Leicester, in England. “It and the electric propulsion thrusters are being tested in Cleveland. “It’s a demonstration that the U.S.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example. This fuel also costs a lot.

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

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Reducing Protein Production Costs to Enable Cell Free Biocatalysis, $400,000. Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000. Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979.