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APRIL 11, 2018

The project also supports BP’s broader strategy to invest half a billion dollars annually into low-carbon technologies, including projects within its established renewables portfolio as well as in new low-carbon businesses. Renewables are the fastest growing form of energy and account for around 4% of global energy demand today.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Obama Administration will push an energy plan that potentially includes production of oil shale, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a group of Western governors assembled in Washington at the National Governor’s Association meeting. Colorado Gov. Let’s put everything on the table.”. “You Let’s put everything on the table.”.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

states and two Canadian provinces, where furnaces and boilers burning fossil gas, fuel oil or propane are more commonly used. Such systems run on electricity rather than fossil fuels, and when the electricity comes from renewable sources, the greenhouse gas savings are substantial , the DOE says.

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JULY 5, 2009

Theoretical maximum yield as a function of latitude for different cell oil contents. Algal oil can be used as a biofuel feedstock. Limits for the practical cases examined in their report ranged from 4,900 to 6,500 gal·ac -1 ·yr -1 (46,300-60,500 L·ha -1 ·yr -1 ) of unrefined oil. Weyer et al. 2009) Click to enlarge. Weyer et al.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy.

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MAY 16, 2014

Maverick Synfuels develops and commercializes thermochemical technology that converts low-value and renewable feedstocks into high-value fuels and chemicals. Maverick currently operates demonstration plants in Florida and Colorado. The ownership of the JV entity will be 60% Petrostar and 40% Maverick.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Soybean oil, Energy cane, Biomass Sorghum, Perennial grasses, Woody biomass.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Renewable Low-Z Wall for Fusion Reactors with Built-In Tritium Recovery - $1,750,000. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. Colorado School of Mines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

Karen Newell discovered a method of increasing the amount of oil produced by algae while researching a cancer drug. Our team believes through preliminary work that we have uncovered a possible lipid trigger that dramatically increases oil yields in plants. —Dr. Biotech drug therapy company Viral Genetics, Inc.,

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MAY 9, 2010

Manitoba Hydro, in partnership with Natural Resources Canada’s National Renewable Diesel Demonstration Initiative (NRDDI), is supporting a C$340,000 (US$326,000) project that will demonstrate the use of biodiesel blends (5%) and long-term storage under extreme cold weather conditions in electric generators in a remote northern Manitoba community.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

algae, micro-angiosperms, cynaobacter, diatoms—to produce a cost-effective feedstock for the subsequent production of drop-in renewable diesel (hydrocarbon, not biodiesel). PetroAlgae’s basic business model is to license to national oil companies, refining companies, and food companies. PetroAlgae overview. Kristina M. Weyer, Daniel R.

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JUNE 5, 2010

For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. In parallel, scientists are also working to develop technology to effectively extract the oil.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

The tubes carry heated oil to a boiler, which sends live steam to a turbine to produce electricity. A new 230 kilovolt (kV) transmission line will be constructed to connect the Blythe Solar Project to the Devers-Palo Verde #2 500 kV line at the Colorado River substation.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The number of states with geothermal projects under development also increased, from 12 to 14 over the past six months, with the addition of two oil-field co-production projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. When added to the 3,100 MW of existing capacity, 10 gigawatts of geothermal power appears to be feasible. California. Mississippi.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. The potential benefits of this research range from decreasing oil consumption to increasing options for American farmers. Jan Leach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Lithium is an important part of our renewable energy transition, but it can’t come at the cost of extinction. The Colorado Plateau and associated land tenures. The Colorado Plateau has abundant oil, gas, and alternative energy potential. The Colorado Plateau has abundant oil, gas, and alternative energy potential.

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JULY 17, 2014

million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. John McKay, Colorado State University. Description.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include Allonia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project. The plant will operate under realistic conditions at a California oil field for at least two months of continuous steady-state testing. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. The work is reported in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s. So when Texas got hit by Uri, it couldn’t pull power from New Mexico or Colorado or further away in the Eastern Interconnection.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Combined with AC Transit’s already-installed solar capacity, this solar installation will produce the renewable electricity equivalent to what will be required to produce 180 kg/day of green hydrogen. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $325,000.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

With Smart Grid, Plug-In Hybrid Cars Could Have System Benefits Physorg Feb 28, 2007 Xcel Energy announced the results of a six-month study related to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and how an increase in their popularity may affect Colorado. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the study.

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MAY 6, 2019

The projects selected by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office focus in two areas: machine learning for geothermal exploration and advanced analytics for efficiency and automation in geothermal operations.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen (or Electrons); Organism: anaerobe and aerobe; Product: Oil for biodiesel. Earlier post.).

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MAY 6, 2019

So far, the policy focus has been on empowering the early winners of an unfolding renewable-energy race. Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I just want to see projects get funded, renewable energy put to work, energy efficiency retrofits instituted, conservation measures adopted and sustainable practices replace business-as-usual before the climate crisis makes any positive action a moot point. You can argue the merits of that if you want, but I’m done arguing.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The structured catalyst consists of a supported active metal and provides the ability to utilize low-carbon renewable electricity to supply the endothermic heat required for methane pyrolysis. SCWDO uses heat to remove salts, metals and organic molecules from water and SMR then combines this pure water with methane to produce hydrogen.

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JULY 17, 2017

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. This technology could potentially allow larger diesel and jet fuel molecules to be produced from renewable sources. —Professor Huber.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

remote oil wells burn natural gas as a by-product because it is not. Colorado State. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. The University of Colorado Boulder will use nanotechnology to. reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. University.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Center for Enhanced Camelina Oil (CECO) The team led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will. produces more oil per acre. Lead organization. 3,734,939.

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JULY 14, 2015

Chen of Colorado State University; Soltex; and Hybrid Coating Technologies. Algenol is also working with PNNL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Georgia Tech on development of higher-value green chemical production concepts. Chen of Colorado State University, for Academic. Professor Eugene Y.-X.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Carnegie Mellon University, SRI International and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that drone-based delivery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the transportation sector. An open-access paper on the research appears in Nature Communications.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have determined that 700,000 acres of federal lands will be needed for solar farms over the next 20 years, so BLM recommended 22 million acres to give “maximum flexibility” to help the US reach its net zero by 2035 power sector goal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Two Colorado State University (CSU) researchers have received a $325,000 National Science Foundation grant to determine the pollutant formation chemistry of algae-derived biofuels, which have potential to be high-yield, efficiently produced, renewable fuels.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My father worked in the oil industry, but his formal education was in aviation maintenance and mechanics back in the Soviet Union, so I got exposed to some of that early on. For small aircraft, like a trainer for example, what [George Bye] is doing with [Colorado e-aircraft manufacturer] Bye Aerospace, makes a lot sense.

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