Companies, Sodium, Universal and Water

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

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JUNE 14, 2012

Produced water from coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) production may contain sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO 3 ) at concentrations that can harm aquatic life, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey; Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; the Bureau of Land Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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Sodium Water Coal Montana

Clean water company Ostara raises $14.5M for major expansion

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JUNE 3, 2012

a clean water company that recovers phosphorus and nitrogen from industrial and municipal wastewaters to create premium fertilizers, completed a US$14.5-million Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., million private equity financing. a fund managed by FourWinds Capital Management.

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Water Clean Cleaning Companies

PNNL process extracts magnesium salt from seawater using laminar coflow

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Washington (UW) have developed a simple way to isolate a pure magnesium salt, a feedstock for magnesium metal, from seawater. The new method flows two solutions side-by-side in a long stream. —Wang et al. Qingpu Wang, Elias Nakouzi, Elisabeth A.

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Sodium Mariner Washington Renewable

SiGNa Chemistry Demonstrates Sodium Silicate-Based Hydrogen Generation System for Portable Fuel Cells

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Prototype sodium silicate hydrogen generation system as presented earlier this year at DOE merit review. The H300 utilizes real-time swappable cartridges that generate hydrogen on demand using SiGNa’s proprietary sodium silicide (NaSi) powder. Sodium-Silica-Gel: 2Na-SG + H 2 O → H 2 + Na 2 Si 2 O 5. Click to enlarge.

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Sodium Hydrogen Fuel Austin

ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers. But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. volts for about 60 hours.

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Energy Solar Carbon Fiber Universal

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Hydroscanner: Instrumentation for water ingress imaging in photovoltaic module packaging materials, $250,000 D2Solar Inc., Pipersville, Pa.

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Commercial San Jose San Francisco San Diego

Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Social Media Lithium FUD When it comes to Lithium Mining, The FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt propagated by Random Youtubers, WhatsApp university and Oil funded media is so easy to debunk, it’s not even funny. Work is being done to bring the battery refinement processes to India by companies such as OLA Electric.

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Chile Li-ion Petrol India

American Process Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Michigan

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AUGUST 29, 2010

The biorefinery will convert the process waste effluent from the plant into cellulosic ethanol, sodium acetate and clean, warm water. Michigan Technical University will contribute research to improve fermentation processes and also on the use of sodium acetate for novel de-icing applications.

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Michigan Waste San Antonio Sodium

ARPA-E awards $38M to 12 projects leading used nuclear fuel recycling initiative

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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Molten Salt Fuel EPRI Waste

Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

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FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sodium-ion batteries (Na-ion, NIBs) are seen as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale applications due to their lower cost and abundant supply of sodium. Yissum is the technology transfer company of the University. It gives a high capacity of 730?mAh?g

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Sodium Batteries Battery Lithium Ion

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. The Detroit Edison Company (MI).

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind

Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The largest ever study of the sustainability of car manufacturing of 17 of the world’s leading car companies found that Asian car manufacturers are outperforming their North American, and many of their European competitors, in using their economic, environmental and social resources more efficiently. The survey attempts to close this gap.”.

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Sodium 2007 GM 2005

CU-Boulder technique finds major class of fracking chemicals no more toxic than common household substances; “fingerprinting”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The surfactant chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. —Thurman et al.

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Oil-Sands Colorado Water Oil

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Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

Clean water company Ostara raises $14.5M for major expansion

PNNL process extracts magnesium salt from seawater using laminar coflow

SiGNa Chemistry Demonstrates Sodium Silicate-Based Hydrogen Generation System for Portable Fuel Cells

ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Debunking the Lithium "Mining" FUD

American Process Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Michigan

ARPA-E awards $38M to 12 projects leading used nuclear fuel recycling initiative

Yissum offering novel high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries; antimony sulphide nanoparticle-coated graphene

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

CU-Boulder technique finds major class of fracking chemicals no more toxic than common household substances; “fingerprinting”

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