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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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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. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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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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Proponents of Gateway point out that it could cost even more to redesign Orion and its service module to allow it to get into and back out of low lunar orbit by using its own main engine instead of docking at Gateway. and the electric propulsion thrusters are being tested in Cleveland.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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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. We and other scientists and engineers at. After all, the sun generates power this way. At nearly 1.4

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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

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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. Enhancing Lifetime and Reducing Costs for Fish Diversion Netting Structures, $220,000. Utilidata, Inc. Lorama Group Inc.