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JANUARY 30, 2020

Recent breakthroughs in separations and catalysis, along with long-trend reductions in solar and wind electricity costs, have significantly increased the potential for cost-competitive renewable fuels from direct air capture (DAC) of CO 2. The separation of ethanol and other fuel products from water. —Rob McGinnis.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The new facility will upcycle carbon dioxide emissions and combine this with green hydrogen, made from renewable electricity and water to produce eMethanol. Once operational, the facility is expected to produce 50,000 tons of eMethanol starting in 2024.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Sundsvall Energi will partner with Liquid Wind to be the host and provide carbon dioxide for the second commercial-scale—100,000 t—electrofuel facility in Sweden. —Claes Fredriksson, CEO and Founder of Liquid Wind. Liquid Wind’s facility will be constructed on Sundsvall Energi’s Korstaverket site.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

Unlike wind, tidal or solar power the advanced design for this Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) system can deliver constant output 24 hours a day. Developed by OTEC International (OTI) LLC of Baltimore, Maryland, the approach converts liquid ammonia into gas in a heat exchanger using warm ocean surface water.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. Wiedel, Jennifer Au, Maciek R. Antoniewicz, Eleftherios T.

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MARCH 16, 2010

H 2 and O 2 are produced by deforming a ZnO fiber or BaTiO 3 dendrite in water via oxidation-reduction reactions. Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a phenomenon—the direct conversion of mechanical energy to chemical energy—which they termed the piezoelectrochemical (PZEC) effect.

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APRIL 11, 2014

volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. For the Nature study, Kanan and Li built an electrochemical cell: two electrodes placed in water saturated with carbon monoxide gas. The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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APRIL 8, 2009

In 2009, the DOE was appropriated $40 million to investigate advanced water power energy generation technologies. This research is executed through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program (WHTP). Projects are expected to begin in Fiscal Year 2009.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Instead of using H 2 , direct conversion of CO 2 with CH 4 (dry reforming of methane, DRM) to liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g. Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. …

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JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Solid-electrode batteries maintain discharge at peak power for far too short a time to fully regulate wind or solar power output.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The open-access paper is published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X. The jet stream is a core of strong winds that flows from west to east, around 8 to 12 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. This water could be used to increase the weight of the airship and further save energy in its descending trajectory.

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APRIL 26, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program for technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. ( Conversion efficiency, %. DE-FOA-0001562 ). hydrogen or electricity). Click to enlarge.

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MAY 11, 2020

Generation 3 avoids the need for the Haber-Bosch process entirely by direct electrochemical conversion of N 2 to NH 3. Over the last decade, momentum has been building to transform the Haber- Bosch (H-B) ammonia industry toward renewable sources of hydrogen, for example, from water electrolysis or solar thermal cycles.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have analyzed the water consumption for transportation fuels in the United States using an extended lifecycle system boundary that includes the water embedded in intermediate processing steps. Increases in population, energy and food demand now strain previously abundant sources of water.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Known as the Claus process, it produces sulfur but no hydrogen, which it instead converts into water. Halas said the remediation process could wind up having low enough implementation costs and high enough efficiency to become economical for cleaning up nonindustrial hydrogen sulfide from sources such as sewer gas and animal wastes.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. Source: Lux Research.

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JUNE 29, 2019

water and electricity to produce higher-energy carbon-based products and a co-product of pure oxygen. CalCEF/Nexus (Oakland, California) is forming a Qualified Clean Energy Opportunity Zone Fund to deploy solar, wind, energy storage and other clean economy assets. into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an electrocatalyst which operates at room temperature and in water for the electroreduction of dissolved CO 2 with high selectivity for ethanol. Their finding was serendipitous. We discovered somewhat by accident that this material worked.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. California draws more than 20% of its electricity from solar and approximately 7% from wind, with more VRE coming online rapidly. —Drake Hernandez.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will expand its open-source Wind Energy with Integrated Servo- control (WEIS) toolbox to include control co-design capabilities of tidal and riverine hydrokinetic turbines. The 11 SHARKS projects are: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Washington.

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APRIL 7, 2013

Current interest areas in sustainable energy technologies are as follows: Biomass Conversion, Biofuels & Bioenergy. Wind Energy. Research that focuses on materials science issues associated with wind energy systems will not be considered by this program.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Too, the electrically driven water pump allows coolant flow rate to be controlled with greater precision based on vehicle conditions for better fuel efficiency. While distributed windings often deliver excellent performance, they can be bulky as well as costly to build. The transaxle’s cooling system has also been simplified.

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AUGUST 25, 2015

A team of researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have hit a new milestone in their development of a hybrid bioinorganic system for solar-to-chemical energy conversion. In the new system, solar energy is used to split the water molecule into molecular oxygen and hydrogen.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. combustor of a natural gas turbine, facilitating its conversion into a. If successful, this.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sun Catalytix is developing catalysts that use intermittent renewable energy, including solar and wind energy, to split water into storable hydrogen and oxygen—a process that mimics photosynthesis. Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, has joined the Sun Catalytix board as a representative of Tata.

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JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources supercritical water process diagram. IER’s proprietary supercritical water technology (SCW) transforms low-ranked coals, including lignite, directly into higher-valued oils and cleaner coal products. Source: IER. Click to enlarge. not via an indirect pathway (gasification) as in Fischer-Tropsch processes.

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JUNE 8, 2011

This in turn causes a reduction in nighttime winds that would otherwise blow pollutants out to sea. In addition, built structures interfere with local winds and contribute to relatively stagnant afternoon weather conditions. Fei and his colleagues focused on wind patterns, which are driven by temperature contrasts between land and sea.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions.

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JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

The “smart” buoys, based on integrated patented hydrodynamics, electronics, energy conversion and computer control systems, capture and convert energy from the natural rising and falling of waves into low-cost, clean electricity. and Japan Wind Development Co. The Japanese consortium comprises Idemitsu Kosan Co., Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Wind and Hydropower can also be used to produce the required electricity. With larger mobile set-ups, such as field hospitals, the conversion of solar power, electrolysis, storage of the hydrogen produced, and fuel cell based electrical generation takes place in separate containers.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

2 a steam conversion rate of 70% at 93% electrical electrolyzer efficiency was achieved. Water electrolysis is considered as a promising pathway for the production of sustainable hydrogen to be used as such an energy carrier. Thermodynamics of the water splitting reaction as a function of temperature. kW electrical power.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The process also solves common problems associated with generating electricity from renewable sources such as solar, wind or wave energy. Hence, if the energy source is renewable, H 2 can be produced sustainably from water using electrolysis. A schematic of silicotungstic acid–mediated H 2 evolution from water.

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APRIL 12, 2022

The process of methanol synthesis requires the input of pure carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water electrolysis, with the only by-product being oxygen and water. Landsvirkjun generates energy from renewable sources: hydro, geothermal and wind. —Hörður Arnarson, CEO Landsvirkjun.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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