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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. Georgia Institute of Technology. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost. Comstock Inc.,

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Study finds global rivers and streams emitting 3x IPCC estimates of the GHG N2O

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It is produced via a microbial process called denitrification, which converts nitrogen to nitrous oxide and an inert gas called dinitrogen. Much of this nitrogen is transported into river and stream networks where it may be converted to nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, via the activity of microbes.

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USDA and DOE select 13 biofuels projects for more than $41M in awards

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University of Wisconsin ($7 million). Fiber will be converted to ethanol, manure used for fertilizer, and oil from the crops will be converted to biodiesel used in farm equipment. University of Hawaii ($6 million). Michigan Technological University. Michigan State University. Oregon State University.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. Georgia Department of Transportation. The buses will be deployed in areas such as downtown and the University. 1,450,000.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. And Oregon is pretty transparent. But wind turbines convert wind to power at the wind speed cubed.

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Video Friday: Turkey Sandwich

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Sanctuary ] Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University in Japan, wrote in to share "the world's simplest omnidirectional mobile robot." The stator converts its thrust force and torque into longitudinal and meridian motions of the torus wheel, respectively, making the torus work as an omnidirectional wheel on a plane.

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