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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it.

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DOE awards $125M to bring clean energy technologies to market

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million); Fusion Energy Sciences (US$10 million); High Energy Physics (US$17.9 Conversion of Biogas to Liquid Fuels on Superior Catalysts. New CO 2 reduction processes are required to efficiently convert biogas, biomass and stored CO 2 to usable fuels. million); Fossil Energy (US$14.7 million); and Nuclear Energy ($13.4

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Scale-Up of the Primary Conversion Reactor to Generate a Lignin-Derived Cyclohexane Jet Fuel. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Conversion of 2,3-Butanediol to Biojet Fuel: Scale-up and Technoeconomic Analysis of Energy-Efficient Separations and Fermentative Diol Production. University of North Dakota.

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Five New Fusion Prospects, Minus the Neutrons

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Interest in fusion energy is surging today in response to the world’s desperate need for abundant clean power. However, the standard deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction at the core of conventional fusion reactors conceals big, long-term problems. They also produce little or no radioactive waste.

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MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

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Computational tools for catalyst design: The ability to convert methane gas directly to liquid methanol at often-remote recovery sites would significantly alter the storage, transport, and use of the gas. However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized.

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Taming the Climate Is Far Harder Than Getting People to the Moon

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Nor do we know what shares will come from converting natural renewable flows, whether we will use them to produce hydrogen or synthetic fuels, and the extent to which we will rely on nuclear fission (and, as some hope, on fusion) or from other, still unknown options. It is just the opposite for the decarbonization of the energy supply.

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Ford increases soy content in foam, adds head restraint as newest component for sustainable material

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Seventy-five percent of Ford’s North American vehicles feature bio-foam in the head restraints, including the Ford F-150, Taurus, Explorer and Fusion. The collaboration also generated the recent complete conversion of all Lear North American Ford seating cushion foam to Lear SoyFoam. “We It’s a new location with higher soy content.

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