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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Seed Funding: Enabling GAMESS for Exascale Computing in Chemistry & Materials, Mark Gordon (Ames) with ANL, ORNL, Iowa State University, Georgia Tech, Old Dominion University, Australian National University, EP Analytics, NVIDIA. Multiscale Coupled Urban Systems, Charlie Catlett (ANL) with LBNL, NREL, ORNL, PNNL.

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DOE Investing Up to $78M Investment in Two Consortia Targeting Algae-Based and Biomass-Based Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuels and Infrastructure; $1.6M for Ethanol Blends Fueling Infrastructure

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These activities will accelerate the ability to overcome several key barriers identified in the Algal Biofuels Roadmap, including: feedstock supply (strain development and cultivation); feedstock logistics (harvesting and extraction); and conversion (production of fuels and co-products). Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.) million to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Ga.) The 11 other projects, all of which were selected as the result of a competition announced by NIST last May, include: $15 million to the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.) million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis. Partners include BASF and University of Georgia. Iowa State University (Ames, IA) - Modular Catalytic Reactors for Single-Use Polyolefin Conversion to Lubricating Oils from Upcycled Plastics (LOUPs) – DOE Funding: $2,500,000.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Easel Biotechnologies, UC Davis). of Georgia). Georgia Institute of Technology.

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