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UGA/NCSU team engineers hyperthermophilic bacterium to produce industrial chemical building blocks from CO2 and H2; ARPA-E project

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Researchers at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks.

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Alabama Project Testing Potential for Combining CO2 Storage with Enhanced Methane Recovery

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The validation phase (2005–2010) generally involves small-scale field tests and includes the Black Warrior Basin CO2 Storage Project. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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DOE Regional Partner Initiates Coal Seam CO2 Injection and Methane Recovery Study in Virginia

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billion tons of CO2 in the coal seams while increasing natural gas production up to 2.5 The site was selected because it is representative of the Central Appalachian Basin, an area of about 10,000 square miles located in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. trillion cubic feet.

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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North Carolina State University. Georgia Institute of Technology. Integrated biochemical and electrochemical technologies (IBET) to convert organic waste to biopower via North American research and educational partnerships. Topic 7: Scalable CO2 Electrocatalysis. Scaling Up Biocrude Derived Anode Material (BDAM).

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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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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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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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North Carolina State. Jet Fuel From Camelina Sativa : A Systems Approach North Carolina State University will engineer the oilseed crop. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. North Carolina State. Research will collaborate with North Carolina State University.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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One of single largest projects comes from Jeff Dangl at the University of North Carolina and his colleagues and focuses on the rhizosphere—the narrow region where microbes in the soil colonize and interact with plant roots. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of Georgia. Dangl, Jeff.