Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2021

The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal. The award value is approximately $1.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

a developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, has been awarded a research grant from the California Energy Commission to develop a process using nanocatalysts to convert algae biomass into biofuels via gasification.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. Evaluating quantum dots as thermoelectric materials: Thermoelectric devices can convert waste heat from car engines, power plants, and other sources directly into electricity. A total of more than $1.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2021

Historically, clean-burning fuels, and those that are easy to make from waste CO 2 streams or syngas, have failed to ignite using MCCI. The team then implemented the results on a heavy-duty production engine provided by Cummins.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The concept for the high-performance hybrid electric microturbine vehicle was developed by Electronic Arts Chief Creative Director Richard Hilleman, creator of popular video games, with support from Capstone Turbine. DOE and BIRD Grants. seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph. The CMT-380 will debut at the LA Auto Show 2-13 December.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2011

The US Department of Energy has awarded up to $39 million in research grants aimed at developing advanced nuclear energy technologies and training under the Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) initiative. The grants will support up to 51 projects at colleges and universities around the country.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

(TDA) a $225,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a process aimed at producing biodiesel from low-cost waste feedstocks. After completion of their EPA Phase I SBIR contract, TDA determined that it can produce biodiesel from waste grease at a cost that is competitive with conventional diesel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

million), of which 30% is covered by an investment subsidy granted by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy for biorefineries producing transport biofuels. The company is also building plant in Gothenburg to produce ethanol from food industry waste and residue; the plant will be delivered by St1 Biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The research projects will receive grants of up to $95,000 each from the Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) Program, part of the Energy Commission’s research and development work. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts. billion in follow-on investment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The researchers say the material could use waste heat from a car’s exhaust to produce electricity for charging the battery. The research is also tentatively funded by a small seed grant from the University of Minnesota’s Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. CalSEED is administered by New Energy Nexus.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Moving forward, Prof Chen’s research team will be applying for a Proof-of-Concept grant to build a large-scale battery prototype. Equally important, we can now drastically cut down the waste generated by disposed batteries, since our batteries last ten times longer than the current generation of lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2013

Hydrotreatment—the chemical reaction of vegetable oils, animal-based waste fats, and by-products of vegetable oil refining with hydrogen—produces hydrocarbons with properties superior to conventional biodiesel and fossil diesel. The most frequently cited feedstocks are corn cobs, corn stover, wheat straw and wood waste.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The concept is detailed in a paper published in Proceedings of the IEEE and co-authored by Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT Energy Initiative; and three MIT alumni and a former high school student who worked on the project. Slocum, A.H.; Fennell, G.E.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

While Celtic Renewables’ original proof-of-concept research, conducted at Edinburgh Napier, was at a small lab-scale of three liters of pot ale, the envisioned industrial scale second phase testing will systematically scale up to 10,000 liters.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2020

IDEALFUEL seeks to develop methods to convert woody residual and waste materials such as sawdust and wood chips into renewable marine fuels. The concept describes the conversion of lignin—the polymer found in the structural materials of plants and trees—from dry lignocellulosic biomass into renewable fuels. (CH);

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is granting a total of €9.2 With the process operating at very high temperatures, the innovative reactor design ensures that the correspondingly large amounts of waste heat are recycled immediately into the process.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

Steven Chu wrote that, between the $8-billion in conditional loan guarantees for the first nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades ( earlier post ), and the new authority granted by the president’s 2011 budget request, the Department of Energy will be able to support between six and nine new reactors in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Phase III applications are sought, to further develop and specifically demonstrate a promising system concept for bio-fueled SOFCs in distributed generation applications, with potential commercial viability. The strength of the current NeFeB PMs is weakened significantly as temperature rises.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

We also produce a huge amount of waste and we are looking at schemes that convert biomass into hydrogen. So as well as producing a clean fuel we would be reducing the amount of waste we put into landfill. The concept has already logged more than 2 million miles (3.2

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The pair has received $850,000 in grants to support the fabrication and testing of a prototype of the K6 engine; Shedd says he expects to have a prototype running by late fall or early winter. Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. —Timothy Shedd.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. And unlike conventional nuclear fission, fusion comes with no risk of meltdowns or weaponization, and no long-lived nuclear waste.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Bio-LNG used by Shell in the test is produced from agricultural waste. The company will start construction of the liquefaction plant later this year, provided permits are granted in time. It meets the criteria of the Renewable Energy Directive 2 (REDII) of the European Union and is a product of a sustainable circular economy.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

NELLHI combined European know-how in single cells, coatings, sealing, and stack design to produce a novel high-performance 1 kW SOFC stack along with with the proof of concept of a 10 kW e SOFC stack. The second project, qSOFC, is automating NELLHI stack mass-manufacture to reduce costs down to 1000 €/kW at 10 MW/year production volumes.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

There is less handling, lower cost capital equipment, no waste solvents, 90-95% yield, many fewer failure points, higher safety and flexibility to run different material formulations in a controlled and sealed environment. These funds are non-dilutive and non-repayable and add to funds previously announced.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. The grants will go to projects in 17 states. The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks. 1,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

EERE is seeking grant applications in the following subtopics: Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels. Grant applications that enable the following are sought: Transportation Fuel Cells. Grant applications are sought in the following subtopics: Manufacturing Process. Advanced Materials.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The Pacific Coast Termite grant also funded an environmentally friendly XT-2000 Orange Oil termite treatment for the greenhouse. James Grande and Dennis Wilson, co-owners of Pacific Coast Termite, were on hand to see the results of their grant and proudly participate in the ribbon cutting. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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Cars That Think

MAY 31, 2024

The company developed the cold plate under an ARPA-E grant and is now measuring the energy savings of liquid cooling through an ARPA-E program. Emily Waltz Mining leaves behind piles of waste after the commercially viable material is extracted. Phoenix Tailings —a startup based in Woburn, Mass.—extracts

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The standard heat pump ensures efficient vehicle climate control and can generate up to 3 kW of heat energy from 1 kW of electrical energy with the waste heat occurring in the vehicle. The powertrain in the Audi Q5 PHEV follows the same concept as the Audi A6 and A7. At a charge connector with an output of 7.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

This concept is often called “additionality.” On 24 February 2009, the US EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in Louisiana. Validation requires additionality. what would have happened anyway).

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The Government has decided to extend the number of £2,000 grants for people who trade in an old car and buy a new one to 400,000, which Paul Williams, the chairman of the National Franchised Dealers Association, described as a “victory for common sense over dogma”. Here at TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The emissions further drop to ~70% if we consider 2G ethanol which is produced using farm waste. Ethanol production from farm waste such as corn cob, rice husk, wheat straw and sugarcane bagasse, is known as second generation ethanol (2G). 3G is still in early stages of commercial deployment while 4G is still at a concept stage.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The foundations serve as in response to the concept that of Prolonged Manufacturer Accountability (EPR) the place the manufacturers (together with importers) of batteries are liable for assortment and recycling/refurbishment of misuse batteries and worth of recovered fabrics from wastes into pristine batteries.

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EV Info

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Electric vehicles: Phasing out sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and investing in grants to help buy cars and charge point infrastructure. First we need to stop wasting funds in vanity projects like HS2 that should be killed now. Point 6: Jet Zero and Green Ships.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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