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Alliance Formed to Commercialize Solar Reforming Technologies to Convert Waste CO2 into Synthetic Fuel

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An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. In addition, commercial partners have signed on to advance work on the first round of commercial plants. Source: Sandia.

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DOE to award up to $6.7M to projects to convert captured CO2 to useful products, including fuels

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million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. CO 2 is already a commodity chemical that is used in many commercial applications. Mineralization concepts utilizing CO 2 with industrial wastes.

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RWE, BASF and Linde Report New Solvents for CO2 Capture Reduce Energy Input by 20%

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The three companies started up the pilot plant in August 2009; it is part of the Coal Innovation Center of RWE Power. First demonstration plants are scheduled to come on stream in 2015, and CO 2 capture is expected to be used commercially in coal-fired power stations by 2020.

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OriginOil, Carbon Sciences Apply for DOE Grants for CO2 to Fuels

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The industrial sources include, but are not limited to, cement plants, chemical plants, refineries, steel and aluminum plants, manufacturing facilities, and power plants using opportunity fuels (petroleum coke, municipal waste, etc.).

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. The projects’ total value is approximately $35.8 PEM), Cambridge, Mass.

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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The selected projects now enter a second phase in which researchers design, construct, and operate their innovations at pilot-scale and evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of applying them commercially. Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd. Ithaca, NY) Teaming with Albemarle Corporation and the Eastman Kodak Co.,

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ARPA-E Soliciting Second Round of Proposals; $100 Million for Advanced Energy Research Projects, with Focus on CO2-to-Liquid Fuels, Plug-in Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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