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How To Make Sure EV Infrastructure Is Energy Efficient

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But there are serious questions , as well, such as: If electric cars rely on power from coal- or oil-burning plants, are they really reducing fossil fuel use? To curb these emissions even further, we need to build more power plants and facilities that create and use renewable energy rather than fossil fuels.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Washington University, St. Discover, understand, and control efficient chemical pathways for the conversion of coal and biomass into chemicals and fuels. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO 2. $20. Center for Inverse Design. $20.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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The new process produces sugars that can be fermented to biofuels and a solid fuel suitable as a coal substitute. Louis; the State of Iowa; the Iowa Energy Center; and Iowa State.

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