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DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

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million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. MATERIA USA LLC (Inwood, NY). Tetra Tech, Inc. Tetra Tech, Inc. Each project will receive up to $150,000 in DOE funding.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. ArcelorMittal USA plans to design an industrial-scale solution for carbon capture from blast furnace-based steelmaking operations at its plant in Burns Harbor, IN. Chevron USA.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. mpg by 2016. Source: EIA.

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LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

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In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

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Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 60%

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Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Canada Pays $85 Billion Higher Social Carbon Price Than Oil & Gas Revenues

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Our children and their children and their children's children will be paying that price.

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