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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.). Bio-hydrocarbons Biogasoline Biomass'

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Study Finds Microwave-Assisted Transesterification of Camelina Oil Consumes Less Than 10% of the Energy as Conventional Heating

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Researchers at the University of New Mexico found in a study of the catalytic conversion of Camelina Sativa oil to biodiesel through both conventional heating and microwave radiation that the microwave-heating method consumed less than 10% of the energy to achieve the same yield as the conventional heating method.

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Solar fuels company Joule commissions first plant to demo commercial readiness, launches Joule Fuels subsidiary to advance direct solar-to-fuels platform

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Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc.,

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. I've also designed and led some of the first equity-centered EV projects which have gone on to inform numerous other equity-centered efforts. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. I've also designed and led some of the first equity-centered EV projects which have gone on to inform numerous other equity-centered efforts. What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

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The project team will specifically design the kit for existing reciprocating compressors used in production, gathering, transmission, and processing sections along the natural gas value chain. Modular System for Direct Conversion of Methane into Methanol via Photocatalysis. AOI 2A: Multifunction Catalyst.

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