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AUGUST 25, 2009

The largest global oil shale deposits—estimated to be equivalent to 1,500 Gbbl oil equivalent—are found in the Green River formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. To put these figures in perspective, emissions from all sectors in the state of Colorado equaled 24 million t of carbon in 2001. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 30, 2022

million in DOE funding, two HY2MEGA hydrogen storage subsystems will connect to an electrolyzer and fuel cell at the ARIES facility on NREL’s Flatirons Campus near Boulder, Colorado. The fuel cell will then convert the green hydrogen to produce renewable electricity. Supported by $1.7

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Projects funded through the Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy ( CURIE ) program will enable secure, economical recycling of the nation’s UNF and substantially reduce the volume, heat load, and radiotoxicity of waste requiring permanent disposal. Most of the nation’s used fuel is stored at more than 70 reactor sites across the country.

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MAY 14, 2015

ConocoPhillips will convert 30 trucks to propane autogas this year and replace more than 300 more trucks over the next five years with vehicles powered by propane fuel technology. ConocoPhillips has been testing ROUSH CleanTech propane vehicles in the field since 2011, logging thousands of miles in northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

When emitted into the atmosphere, NH 3 is converted into tiny particles of inorganic compounds, including ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate. On a national or global scale, most NH 3 pollution comes from agricultural sources, such as livestock manure.

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MAY 16, 2014

The proposed plants will utilize and promote technology that converts a methane-rich feedstock into high-quality methanol. Maverick Synfuels develops and commercializes thermochemical technology that converts low-value and renewable feedstocks into high-value fuels and chemicals.

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APRIL 28, 2016

The converted F-150 will travel across the country from Kansas City to Seattle, WA, and back through the US, stopping along the way, to complete its journey in Jacksonville, FL, on 18 May, followed by a Homecoming event in Asheville, NC, on 23 May. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al. —Prashant Nagpal.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The report found that 56 million scrap tires remain in stockpiles, mostly in Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia and Washington, half of which—New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia—do not have active stockpile cleanup programs.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Researchers at Colorado State University have shown that under relatively mild conditions (?140 The biomass-derived sugars can be converted into fuels and value-added chemicals by liquid-phase catalytic processing. The process demonstrated by the Colorado State team avoids the use of the additional acid catalysts. Zhang et al.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

has signed an EPA Test Vehicle Agreement with Waste Connections of Colorado, Inc. to convert one of its refuse transfer trucks to APG’s dual fuel system and begin on-the-road test trials and emission compliance approval. The initial vehicle to be tested for Waste Connections of Colorado, Inc. American Power Group Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Catalytic converter theft has become a popular pastime for criminals looking to make a quick buck in the United States. regulators seemed absolutely committed to ruining vehicles via the Clean Air Act, catalytic converters would become mandatory hardware on all exhaust systems by 1975. Implemented during the Malaise Era, when the U.S.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Electrification Coalition released two case studies outlining how two cities— Houston, Texas and Loveland, Colorado —are saving money by using electric vehicles (EVs) in their vehicle fleets. Loveland is now aiming to convert all of its light-duty fleet vehicles that work within a close distance of the city to EVs.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week announced the Department of the Interior’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and oil sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. Colorado State. convert natural gas into methanol and hydrogen.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Codexis’ latest generation of advanced cellulase enzymes, CodeXyme 4 for dilute acid pretreatments and CodeXyme 4X for hydrothermal pretreatments, converts up to 85% of available fermentable sugars at high biomass and low enzyme loads. Codexis, Inc., Codexis added the red diamond to indicate CodeXyme 4 performance. Source: Codexis.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider of motorcoach sales and support in the USA and Canada, has finalized an agreement with Lightning Systems, a Loveland, Colorado-based developer of zero-emission electric drivetrains for commercial vehicle fleets.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 17, 2025

Some of the more obscure Omnirizon-derived vehicles are nearly extinct, however, so I was excited to find this Turismo at the same northeastern Colorado boneyard that gave us the quadra-Corvan Junkyard Find a week ago. This one is in rough shape, wedged tightly between a LeBaron convertible and a Mitsubishi-built Sapporo.

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MAY 3, 2012

The syrup was then processed by Amyris at its California pilot facility using its proprietary yeast fermentation system that converts plant sugars into its trademarked product, Biofene, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 16, 2013

a cellulosic sugar producer, announced a 15-year commercial agreement with Windsor, Colorado-based Front Range Energy, to generate cellulosic ethanol at Front Range’s current corn-ethanol facility. Sweetwater Energy, Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. Multicopper Oxidases for Methane Activation. 1,500,000.

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OCTOBER 3, 2010

A team from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Colorado School of Mines has measured gas phase and particle-associated non-regulated pollutant emissions from a heavy-duty engine operating both with and without a catalyzed DPF and operating on biodiesel fuel.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Biomass feedstocks can be produced by municipal solid waste (MSW) streams and algae and converted into low-carbon fuels that can significantly contribute to the decarbonization of transportation sectors that face barriers to electrification, such as aviation and marine. Colorado State University. Federal share.

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JULY 2, 2014

In 1989, HCI began blending various ratios of hydrogen and natural gas and testing them in an emissions laboratory at Colorado State University. In 1993, HCI and the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory (EECL) at Colorado State University formed a research partnership and proposed a comprehensive study to the Department of Energy (DOE).

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JULY 15, 2011

The project initially was to be co-located with a Suncor petroleum refinery in Commerce City, Colorado, and using biochem-organisolve, would convert 100 tonnes per day (dry basis) of hard and soft wood residues into ethanol, lignin and furfural.

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APRIL 23, 2018

The supercar will compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill climb in Colorado Springs on 24 June 24, seeking to beat the existing electric car record of 8:57.118 minutes in the annual “Race to the Clouds.”. Ushering in a new era of Volkswagen motorsport, the brand unveiled its fully-electric supercar—the I.D. R Pikes Peak in Alès, France.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Cobalt’s technology converts cellulosic biomass, such as forest waste and mill residues, into n-butanol through a process of biomass emulsification, conditioning and continuous fermentation. We believe Cobalt’s technology has great potential and are looking forward to helping them scale up rapidly. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Today's Junkyard Find is one of those early Accords, found last year in a Colorado car graveyard. CVCC-equipped engines ran so clean that no catalytic converter was required on this one. 1980 Honda Accord in Colorado wrecking yard. 1980 Honda Accord in Colorado wrecking yard. The 2024 Accord has a 111.4-inch

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MARCH 8, 2012

For the strain fermentation demonstration, Cobalt utilized the NREL Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility (IBRF) in the National Bioenergy Center facilities in Golden, Colorado, which is designed for large-scale fermentation and downstream processing. Tests resulted in high sugar conversion and high yields of butanol. Pretreatment.

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JUNE 19, 2012

At last month’s World Renewable Energy Forum 2012 in Denver, Colorado, researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory presented papers on two different approaches to upgrade pyrolysis oils to hydrocarbon fuels or fuel intermediates. Fast pyrolysis can convert about 70% of the mass and energy into the liquid product.

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JUNE 28, 2011

I have a 1969 Toyota FJ40 that just recently seized up, so I'm going to convert it to electric. I live in Colorado, so its a little bit hilly, so I want

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

Cells can convert fats to sugars and vice versa, or “burn” sugar for fuel. In the own bio-fuel program, the compounds manipulated the metabolic functions of algae cells causing them to increase the storage of fats—rather than converting them to sugar for fuel—and therefore increasing the secretion (yield) of refinable oil.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

ClearFuels recently was selected to receive up to $23 million as a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to construct a biomass gasifier at Rentech’s Energy Technology Center (RETC) in Colorado and integrate it with Rentech’s existing Product Demonstration Unit. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 13, 2016

Think Subarus in the Northeast or the Rocky Mountains, convertibles in Florida, and pickup trucks in Texas. Now, a used-car dealer in Boulder, Colorado, has made. Some markets are stronger than others for certain types of cars.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Requirements for catalytic converters, use of reformulated fuels less prone to evaporate, and improved engine efficiency of new vehicles have all likely contributed to overall declines in vehicle-related pollution, including VOCs.

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