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Massachusetts state agencies increase deployment of XL Hybrids technology to 52 fleet vehicles

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XL Hybrids announced its XL3 Hybrid Electric Drive System will be installed in 52 vehicles that serve five Massachusetts state agency fleets. The upgrades were made possible by support from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC).

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

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American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. General Atomics; Rare Earth Element (REE) Separation and Processing Demonstration Project Partners: Rare Element Resources, Inc.,

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UCL-led study finds climate impact caused by growing space industry needs urgent mitigation

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This demand stems from significantly reduced launch costs driven by commercialization, increased reliance on satellite technologies for global positioning systems, surveillance and broadband internet, and postulated space resource extraction and militarization. —Ryan et al. —corresponding author Dr Robert Ryan. Marais, E.

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Anellotech Bio-TCat hits commercially-targeted yields during 6 months of continuous operations

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Anellotech’s core technology, Thermal Catalytic Biomass Conversion (Bio-TCat) was developed to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable, non-food biomass. The goal of being cost-competitive with fossil resource technologies is a reality and we look forward to on-going process improvements.

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MIT: hybrid cathodes could boost energy capacity of lithium-sulfur batteries

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Researchers at MIT and in China are proposing a new class of dense intercalation-conversion hybrid cathodes by combining intercalation-type Mo 6 S 8 with conversion-type sulfur (HMSC) to realize a Li–S full cell. Conversion type cathodes use sulfur that gets transformed structurally and is even temporarily dissolved in the electrolyte.

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Researchers use PEM fuel cell reactor to convert biomass-derived acetone into isopropanol; new biomass to fuels pathway

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A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has demonstrated the feasibility of using proton-exchange-membrane (PEM) reactors electrocatalytically to reduce biomass-derived oxygenates into renewable fuels and chemicals. Tompsett, G.

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New PNNL Geothermal Heat Extraction Process Optimizes Low-Temperature Resources; NYU Stern Study Finds Geothermal Most Efficient Renewable and Improving the Fastest

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Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources. PNNL’s conversion system exploits the rapid expansion and contraction capabilities of a new biphasic fluid. Earlier post.). 2009.01.004.

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