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AUGUST 27, 2010

While hot or warm water processes are used to extract bitumen from Canadian oil sands, the application of these methods to the processing deposits found in the Western United States, notably Utah, has not been commercially successful, the researchers noted, because of the consolidated nature of the deposits and the high viscosity of the bitumen.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

While a small fraction of the United States’ vast geothermal resource can be harnessed via naturally occurring hot water or steam, the vast majority is inaccessible without the creation of human-made EGS reservoirs. The site uses testing and R&D to reduce uncertainty and manage risk for commercial development of EGS technologies.

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The autonomous return capsule, made by startup Varda Space Industries , of Torrance, CA, was meant to have landed in the remote Utah desert early in September. It would have been the first commercial space company to return a drug made in space to Earth, in this case a few grams of the HIV and hepatitis C antiviral ritonavir.

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JUNE 15, 2023

IperionX says that its proprietary technologies can unlock significant sustainability benefits that are critical for a low-carbon, fully circular titanium automotive supply chain—attributes that can’t be achieved with any other known commercial titanium production process.

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JULY 6, 2022

Under the terms of the MoU, Compass Minerals would supply LGES with with a battery-grade lithium product from its lithium brine development project at its Ogden, Utah, solar evaporation facility. The battery manufacturer also signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement with Germany’s Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd.

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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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MAY 13, 2021

Expanding the use of salt caverns for hydrogen energy storage in other regions offers a significant opportunity to create an infrastructure for clean energy resources throughout the US to benefit industries such as power, transportation and manufacturing that are targeting net zero carbon emissions. Texas Brine gas storage cavern wellhead.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Cindy Wilcox, co-founder and president of Marine BioEnergy, estimates that it would take a Utah-sized patch of ocean to make enough kelp biofuel to replace 10% of the liquid petroleum consumed annually in the United States. One Utah would take up only 0.13% of the total Pacific Ocean. Navarrete, Diane Y. Kim, Cindy Wilcox, Daniel C.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is offering additional opportunities for energy companies to conduct oil shale research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects on public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The allotted acreage for commercial development represents an 87.5% Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Types of fleet incentives Incentives come in different forms, but they are all meant to encourage businesses to invest in activities like electrifying their commercial fleet of light, medium, or heavy-duty vehicles. For initial research, the Blink Commercial Incentives tool will help you identify funding opportunities.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Energy Fuels will process the monazite sands into a mixed rare earth carbonate (RE Carbonate) in Utah for use as feed material for Neo’s value-added separated rare earth production plant in Europe. Energy Fuels is also continuing to evaluate developing additional value-added US rare earth production capabilities in Utah in the future.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

A biofuels company, Utah-based Genifuel Corp., Genifuel has been a partner to improve the technology and make it feasible for use in a commercial system. The research was reported recently in the journal Algal Research. has licensed the technology and is working with an industrial partner to build a pilot plant using the technology.

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APRIL 23, 2013

and Beaver and Salt Lake City, Utah, and has its own LNG fueling station on its property in Ontario, Calif. UPS was a founding Interstate Clean Transportation Corridor (ICTC) fleet partner, a group that established publicly accessible LNG fueling stations in California, Las Vegas, and Utah. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is currently less desirable to automotive manufacturers, but provides an additional resource benefit to PHEV/BEVs by theoretically doubling their capacity value to the grid. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

New geothermal power came on line in Kenya, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as Oregon, Nevada and Utah in the United States. New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW. Successful Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) projects in the US were led by Calpine Corp.,

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million in funding for six projects as part of the Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management (SMARTFARM) program. University of Utah. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (APRA-E) will award $16.5 Project descriptions: University of Illinois – Urbana.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Play Fairway Analysis ($4 million): Play fairway analysis, a subsurface mapping technique already used for oil and gas exploration, helps to pinpoint where geothermal energy resources remain hidden beneath the Earth’s surface.

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With the demand for lithium expected to surpass supply by 2030, automakers have never been more pressed to secure the resource , especially as it becomes increasingly essential for the future of their business, specifically regarding the production of electric vehicles. Along with this risk, GM does have some incredible upsides.

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JUNE 29, 2010

The agreement sets into play the first two projects that are intended to lead to a broader long-term relationship to develop renewable energy in the western US utilizing Raser’s resource portfolio and HHI’s renewable energy equipment manufacturing capabilities. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Solar project.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Diesel-powered engines move approximately 90% of the nation’s freight tonnage, and today nearly all highway freight trucks, locomotives, and commercial marine vessels are powered by diesel engines. California Air Resources Board (CARB)-verified retrofit technologies or certified engine configurations.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

billion core hours represents 1,000-fold growth in computational resources provided to award recipients. Despite continued upgrades, expansions, and advances in computing power, demand for leadership-class resources such as Mira and Titan continues to exceed availability. Today’s collective allocation of 5.8

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The Department of the Interior (DOI) will offer a second round of research, development, and demonstration leases for oil shale in Colorado and Utah and withdraw the Bush administration’s proposal for expanded RD&D leases. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Secretary Salazar.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester) derived from oleaginous microbes—microalgae, yeast, and bacteria—can effectively displace both petroleum diesel and biodiesel produced from plant oils, according to the findings of a new study by a team from Utah State University. Credit: ACS, Wahlen et al. Click to enlarge. —Whalen et al.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

or geothermal resources for sale for heat, light or power, or for the furnishing of telephone service, sewerage facilities or water. Utah is set to implement a new kWh tax in January 2024. Charging station operators in Utah must remit the tax electronically, adhering to the same schedule as sales and use tax filings.

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JULY 15, 2013

Engineers at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah and the University of Ulsan in South Korea have used friction bit joining (FBJ) to bond dissimilar combinations of aluminum alloy A356 and grey cast iron. The process of friction bit joining uses a small, consumable bit to create a solid-state joint between metals. —Michael Miles.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

On-the-go charging will significantly reduce vehicle battery cost, weight and provide a flexible resource to electric utilities. Regan Zane, subteam co-chair dynamic charging (Utah State). Dynamic charging Kenworth at Utah State Test Track. The TIR J2954/2 is a first big step for wireless HD dynamic charging.

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JULY 1, 2011

The group plans to expand this research to develop a full complement of enzymes that is tailored for the ionic liquid process technology with the goal of demonstrating a complete biomass-to-sugar process, one they hope can enable the commercial viability of advanced biofuels. —Blake Simmons. Axen, Cheryl A. Michael Wainø, B.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Water constraints are especially problematic for oil shale production, because the reserves are located in the water-stressed states of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. CTL technologies are further along but combining the various technologies into a commercially viable plan still faces operational and technical challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The selected projects are intended to improve the economics of IGCC plants and promote the use of the US’abundant coal resources. The six projects will promote the commercialization of IGCC with carbon capture by advancing technologies to make the process more economical.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. Based on the successful test result, the company is currently building a full-size commercial unit with a capacity of 600 gallons per minute. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va.,

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. Neither of us had more than a middle manager's sense of budgets and resources, nor any detailed notion about raising money. It would be a sin to let this world-class group disperse. It had to be hardware.

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JUNE 19, 2014

ABR, noted Peter Faguy, the DOE manager of the applied battery research program, during his presentation at the Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC, is the difficult regime between the discovery of materials and their application in batteries that can be commercialized. Resources. ( The projects end in 2015. Amine (PI), H.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

C6 Resources. C6 Resources, an affiliate of Shell Oil Company, will conduct the project in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. University of Utah. This commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration demonstration project will remove up to 1 million tons of CO 2.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. Commercial scale algae production is not included. Resources. This will take an $8.32 billion investment to build 27 biorefineries with an average capacity of 40 million gallons per year. of the available cropland and cropland pasture acreage base.

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JULY 21, 2016

California Air Resources Board. PNM Resources. Loan guarantees can be an important tool to commercialize innovative technologies because these projects may be unable to obtain full commercial financing due to the perceived risks associated with technology that has never been deployed at commercial scale in the United States.

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JULY 3, 2009

The use of non-renewable resources is taking its toll on the environment and more money is being pumped into renewable energy sources such as wind and biomass. He predicted that by the end of 2010, 13 commercial scale solar power projects could be under way in states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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