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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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Awards made from the FOA will validate the concept, estimate the technology cost, and demonstrate that the carbon lifecycle of the products can offer a true carbon reduction. The funding opportunity announcement has three areas of interest: Biological based concepts for beneficial use of CO 2. coal, metals, etc.), coal, metals, etc.),

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New catalyst system produces H2 and CO2 from formic acid at low temperatures

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Other methods for producing hydrogen from formic acid have required high temperatures, and also produce waste products. The work, described in an open-access paper in Nature Communications marks a new frontier in catalyst design at the molecular level. Such catalysts are formulated to produce highly selective chemical reactions.

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Stanford team proposes method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture to provide transportation energy with reduced CO2 emissions

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These emissions estimates raise a question: is the energy content of shale effectively “off limits” in a GHG constrained world, or is there a way to extract the stored chemical energy from oil shale with greatly reduced CO2 emissions? secondary use of waste heat. Waste heat from conversion. —Mulchandani and Brandt.

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ALABC: 48V mild hybrids can meet emission targets with CO2 reductions of 15-20%

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This concept vehicle is powered by the Optima’s existing 1.7 The diesel-electric powertrain concept enables the T-Hybrid (turbo-hybrid) to be driven in electric-only mode at low speeds and when cruising, with deceleration serving to recharge the battery pack.

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$12M German project to develop technology for syngas production from CO2 and H2; new hydrogen production method

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With the process operating at very high temperatures, the innovative reactor design ensures that the correspondingly large amounts of waste heat are recycled immediately into the process. This enables the production of hydrogen and solid carbon; the latter may potentially be used to replace hard coal in the coke and steel industries.

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The BMW Group’s 360-degree approach to sustainability

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As the issue of climate change heats up, it’s natural to ask “are we doing enough” and, on World EV Day in particular, will switching to EVs be enough to reduce the CO2 emissions produced by the world’s cars? BMW i-Vision Circular concept. Every part of the i-Vision Circular has been designed to minimise waste, and weight.

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

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Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes. An existing CO 2 absorption facility for the project is operational at Moss Landing, Calif.,