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JULY 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $15 million for three projects aimed at reducing the production costs of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts through improvements in algal biomass yields. Global Algae Innovations. Global Algae Innovations Inc., Global Algae Innovations Inc., Algenol Biotech LLC. Algenol Biotech LLC.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Of those selected, approximately 43% of OPEN 2018 projects will be led by universities, 35% by small businesses, and the remainder by large businesses, non-profit organizations or federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. University of Utah, “Entrained-Flow Biomass Gasification with Syngas Fermentation for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels” $2,000,000.

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JULY 14, 2015

Successful achievement of the project goals is expected to enable the commercial deployment of natural gas-fueled Distributed Generation SOFC systems, which is an intermediate step toward viable SOFC technology for large-scale, coal-fueled, central power generation applications. The University of South Carolina. GE Global Research.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment. The FAA’s COE program is a cost-sharing research partnership between academia, industry and the federal government.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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. will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX.

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JULY 31, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 7 projects that will help develop low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for central power generation from fossil energy resources for further research. Four of the selected projects will pursue advances in cathode performance, enabling higher efficiency, lower cost systems.

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JULY 14, 2016

Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round. The new hybrid varieties are already being sold commercially by ArborGen Inc.,

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JUNE 21, 2023

With IMA, the company expects to standardize modules and parts between the models to further expand economies of scale and significantly reduce EV development complexity and costs. This breakthrough allows for greater flexibility and efficiency in the development process, paving the way for significant cost savings.

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JUNE 24, 2011

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for five projects to develop advanced biofuels and bioproducts that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from biomass. This process could be used for the commercialization of biomethane to fuels. The University of Wisconsin of Madison, Wisconsin will receive up to $3.3 Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

As part of the FY 2012 Phase I Release 3 SBIR/STTR Award program, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Michigan-based XG Sciences, a manufacturer of graphene nanoplatelets ( earlier post ), a contract to develop low-cost, high-energy Si/graphene anodes for Li-ion batteries for use in extended range electric vehicle applications.

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MARCH 16, 2014

A team from Georgia Tech, University of California, Berkeley, and the Joint BioEnergy Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has now engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to produce pinene, the immediate precursor to pinene dimers, a biosynthetic alternative to JP-10. —Sarria et al. kg, or $5.31/gal kg, or $5.31/gal

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Yet DNA data storage has to date been relegated to boutique, proof-of-concept applications like time capsules, and the cost is tremendous. But for DNA to make a difference in the storage problem, it needs to scale up, while the cost must come down. New research led by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) aims to achieve both.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

The DOE investment will be matched by private and non-federal cost-share funds of more than $19 million for total project investments of more than $97 million. The two cross-functional groups will seek to break down critical barriers to the commercialization of algae-based and biomass-based advanced renewable transportation fuels.

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MAY 19, 2014

The resulting roadmap uses the integration of genetic engineering with analytical chemistry tools to tailor the structure of lignin and its isolation so it can be used for materials, chemicals and fuels, said lead author Arthur Ragauskas, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit,

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Georgia Power. Southern Company: Georgia Power. 46 organizations have signed on to the principles so far. Dayton Power & Light Company.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

million of non-Federal cost sharing. CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.)

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Having raked in perhaps 30 percent of all the money invested in electrically-powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft so far, Joby is the colossus in an emerging class of startups working on these radical, battery-powered commercial flyers. Laurie Garrow, Georgia Tech And somehow, the cost would be no greater, either.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Source: Georgia Tech. The synthesis process is simple, low-cost, safe and broadly applicable, they say, providing new avenues for the rational engineering of electrode materials with enhanced conductivity and power. This is a significant step toward commercial production of silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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JULY 7, 2010

Total value of the projects, including cost sharing, is approximately US$5.9 The projects are located in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Quebec, Canada (through collaboration with a company based in Lexington, Ky.). Brown University (Providence, R.I.). McGill University (Quebec, Canada).

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APRIL 30, 2010

This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 The team anticipates at least a twofold productivity improvement over current levels and a cost that can be competitive with gasoline. of Georgia).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. Georgia Department of Transportation. This project will be the first commercial deployment of articulated fuel cell buses in the US.

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JUNE 13, 2012

BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, helps farmers and forest land owners with start-up costs of planting new energy crops that can take several years to reach maturity until harvest, a timeline designed to parallel the construction schedule of commercial-scale energy facilities that will use these crops.

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JANUARY 4, 2014

NREL researchers put CelA to the test and found that it produced more sugars than the most abundant cellulase in the leading commercial mixtures, Cel7A, when acting on Avicel, which is an industry standard to test cellulose degradation. This discovery could reshape the landscape of commercial cellulase cocktail design.

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JUNE 21, 2016

The Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute will focus on accelerating the development and adoption of advanced sensors, data analytics, and controls in manufacturing, while reducing the cost of these technologies by half and improving the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Louisiana State U.;

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. And there are states like Georgia where public interveners don’t have any right to discovery.

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JULY 6, 2009

Company officials are considering potential sites in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and California. By the fourth quarter of 2009, the company expects to begin selling c-Zone utility EVs for commercial and government applications as well the e-Zone City Drive EVs. The e-Zone uses a 72V, 5.0

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 While their commercial viability is greatest at operating temperatures of 300–500?°C, Structure and performance of an intermediate-temperature fuel cell.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Vanderbilt University, Nissan North America and Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating to test a new technique to electospin low-platinum-metal-group (low PGM) electrocatalysts with a proton-conducting binder to improve durability and performance of fuel cell electrodes. Earlier post.). Brodt et al. Peter Pintauro.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Professor Deepak Divan , the director of the Center for Distributed Energy at Georgia Tech, says his team found that in residential areas “multiple L2 chargers on one distribution transformer can reduce its life from an expected 30 to 40 years to 3 years.” This situation is not true universally. Given that most of the millions of U.S.

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You had me at “wormlike, limbless robots.” [ GitHub ] via [ Georgia Tech ] Filmed in July 2017, this video shows us using Atlas to put out a “fire” on our loading dock. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo.

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Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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