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Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center broadening focus to advanced biofuels

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GLBRC is working to increase the efficiency of biomass conversion. Designing new platform microbes capable of producing targeted bioproducts from conversion residues created when producing specialty biofuels. valerolactone (GVL), a chemical derived from plants themselves. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge. —Tim Donohue.

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Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

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Predictions estimate this value to reach 150 x 10 -19 kJ by 2050, considering the diverse range of biomass resources available.Biomass, deriving its carbon from atmospheric CO 2 , is deemed a carbon-neutral fuel (Figure 1). By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change.

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LLNL report lays out technology pathways for California to become carbon-neutral and then -negative by 2045; 3 pillars of negative emissions

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In the report, “ Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California ,” funded by the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) with grant support from the ClimateWorks Foundation, LLNL focused on three specific pillars of negative emissions: natural and working lands; carbon capture from biomass conversion to fuels; and direct air capture.

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CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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CO 2 capture and clean-up: Waste gases are captured from the points of emission at the stack and transferred to the gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce CO 2 suitable for downstream methanol synthesis. CRI’s ETL technology consist of five process modules. In many ethanol production and biogas processes.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. Over time, we can conserve by reducing the miles we drive.

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ARPA-E to award $60M to 2 programs: enhancing biomass yield and dry-cooling for thermoelectric power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will focus on new power plant cooling technologies that could significantly improve the overall energy efficiency of thermoelectric power plants by enabling high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation into the atmosphere.

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DOE to award up to $35M to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies; fuel cell range extenders

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This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) covers a broad spectrum of the Fuel Cell Technology Office (FCTO) portfolio with areas of interest ranging from research and development (R&D) to demonstration and deployment projects. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion.

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