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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. The calculated relative amounts of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases from eight different energy sources are shown in the table below. Energy source. from coal. Natural gas. Geothermal.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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DOE selects 8 new advanced coal projects for funding by University Coal Research Program

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. The selected projects are intended to improve coal conversion and use and will help propel technologies for future advanced coal power systems. DOE Share: $300,000).

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DOE to award $4M to 9 projects to recover rare earth elements from coal and by-products

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products.

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Siemens Completes Successful First Firing of PetroAlgae’s Biomass Fuel in Pilot Plant-scale Pulverized Coal Burner

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Siemens Energy has successfully completed the first firing of PetroAlgae Inc.’s The biocrude fuel was combined with pulverized coal in a pilot-scale burner with a thermal capacity of approximately 4 MBtu/hr. Some mixing of the pulverized coal and biocrude took place within the fuel injector prior to combustion of the mixture.

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DOE to award up to $14M to 6 new projects to advance IGCC with carbon capture technology for coal-fired plants

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $14 million to six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture. EPRI will team with Dooher Institute of Physics and Energy, Worley Parsons Group, Inc.,

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INCITE supercomputing grants awarded to 56 projects; sustainable energy to next-gen materials

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The diverse projects will advance knowledge in critical areas ranging from sustainable energy technologies to next-generation materials. The OLCF’s Titan supercomputer is a 27-petaflop Cray XK7 hybrid system employing both CPUs and energy-efficient, high-performance GPUs in its 18,688 compute nodes. The projects will share 5.8

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