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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes. The six projects were initially selected for a first-phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4 Alcoa, Inc.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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This concept is often called “additionality.” Mr. Donovan drafted the “Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative” for the State of Louisiana. On 21 June 2008, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative (“Act 382”). Validation requires additionality.

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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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A system to concentrate CO 2 from two steam methane reformer waste streams will be designed, constructed, and demonstrated at Port Arthur, Texas. Additionally, the Department has also made conditional selections of 16 projects that demonstrate innovative concepts for beneficial carbon dioxide use. DOE Share: $1,137,885).

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760. The work will result in the development of a first-of-its-kind aircraft gas turbo-electric engine with a sCO 2 waste heat recovery cycle. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Raytheon Technologies Research Center.

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