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Large-scale CO2 injection test begins in Illinois

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The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC), one of seven regional partnerships created by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to advance carbon storage technologies nationwide ( earlier post ), has begun injecting carbon dioxide for their large-scale CO 2 injection test in Decatur, Illinois. billion metric tons.

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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Study finds carbon capture & storage could be financial opportunity for conventional ethanol plants

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Fermentation also produces a high-concentration (99%) gaseous CO 2 stream consisting only of CO 2 , water and small amounts of organic and sulfur compounds. A US Department of Energy supported project is capturing and storing around 1 Mt per year of CO 2 from an Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) plant in Illinois.

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BP establishing $100M international research center for advanced materials for energy and industrial applications

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The spokes and other founder members are the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Imperial College, London, conducts a wide range of research for BP including in the areas of reservoir characterization, process modeling, climate change, seismic imaging and urban energy systems.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US. Watering the Sustainability Dream.

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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Monique closes her EV’s fueling port and heads onto the highway with enough stored energy to drive 640 kilometers (400 miles). There is only so much salt you can dissolve in a glass of water. Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. for climate control in automobiles.

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