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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. giganteus at the Illinois Energy Farm during the 2018 growing season, a near-average year in terms of temperature, rainfall, and soil moisture. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.) Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).

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Oak Ridge researchers tap Titan supercomputer for two lignin-related projects; improving knowledge and processes for cellulosic biofuels

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To model this crowded environment accurately, Smith’s team used experimental data to create a representative sample of pretreated biomass and enzymes. It aggregates and binds to cellulose, the substance that is converted into ethanol, and poses a physical barrier for the enzymes, preventing them from reaching cellulose.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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This initiative is taking place in an environment where everyday citizens want to travel without causing emissions and are increasingly aware of the value of renewables and energy security. “We The inverter converts alternating current to direct current when charging the vehicle and back the other way when sending power into the grid.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. Police suspected King was the anonymous source—the looter who confessed to torching a store.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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A novel process known as Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL), in which coal and biomass are converted to electricity and CO 2 is efficiently captured, has been successfully demonstrated on a laboratory scale. General Motors will develop a shape memory alloy (SMA) energy recovery device that will convert waste heat from car engines to electricity.

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