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DOE to award $35M for bioenergy feedstock and algae R&D

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DE-FOA-0002423 ) Topic Areas ins the FOA support DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) objectives to reduce the minimum selling price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Development of novel methods for rapid/real-time measurements.

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RAL proposes new efficient and low-cost process to crack ammonia for hydrogen using sodium amide; transportation applications

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While both perceived and real safety risks due to the toxicity of NH 3 have detracted from its appeal, its adoption as a vector for H 2 has not yet been realized largely because of the absence of an efficient, low-cost method for cracking NH 3 to H 2 and N 2. The material costs, however, are very significantly less, the team observed.

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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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Projects selected under this funding opportunity announcement will reduce both the costs of critical materials and the environmental impacts of production. Technology Holding LLC; Next Generation Separation Method for Rare Earths Partners: Massachusetts Institute of Technology DOE share: $499,673; Cost share: $124,999; Total costs: $624,672.

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CO2-to-chemicals company Liquid Light raises $15M Series B financing; process scale-up and application validation

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Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. The pre-pilot will also feature a custom-made solvent recovery system to recover and re-use the solvent and fractionate the CELF lignin simultaneously into low and high MW cuts. Viridos, Inc., “Pre-pilot

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Researchers engineer enzyme surfaces to bind less to lignin; potential cost reduction for cellulosic ethanol production

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This potentially could reduce enzyme costs in biofuels production. Cellulases (enzymes) deconstruct lignocellulosic biomass for conversion to biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol and biochemicals. Enzymes cost about $0.50 So any advances on making the enzyme processing step cheaper will make the cost of biofuel cheaper.

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Stanford faculty awarded $2.2M for 9 energy research projects; high-performance batteries, promoting sustainable vehicles, wireless power transfer for moving vehicles

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This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. Principal Investigator (PI): Zhenan Bao, chemical engineering.

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