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Coskata touts two years of operation of its semi-commercial biomass and MSW to ethanol facility

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a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, achieved two years of successful operations at their cellulosic ethanol semi-commercial facility in Madison, Pennsylvania this month. Coskata, Inc.,

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Pennsylvania Awards Axion Power $800,000 to Demonstrate PbC Batteries in Hybrids, PHEVs and EVs

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The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. The Pennsylvania Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program has awarded Axion Power International, Inc. Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Ettline Foods Corp. US Airways Inc. Advance Materials Corp.

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Gevo awarded $5M to develop cellulosic jet fuel; separate contract to supply alcohol-to-jet drop-in biojet fuel to USAF

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The NARA project envisions developing a new, viable, aviation fuel industry using wood and wood waste in the Pacific Northwest, where forests cover almost half of the region. The company also successfully converted the cellulosic isobutanol into isobutylene and paraffinic kerosene (jet fuel).( Earlier post.). DLA contract.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. The Pennsylvania State University. Light-weighting materials. Grantee Description. Grantee Description.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. process will reuse more than 50% of the facilities’ wastewater, decrease wastewater discharge, and recover significant amounts of industrial waste. Technology; University of California Santa Barbara; and The Pennsylvania State.

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

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). 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. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The frequency of the carrier signal used to transmit color information in the National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) standard; 3.58 In the NTSC standard, a set of 262.5 You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. television scan lines, transmitted at a rate of 60 per second. It’s only sand.”

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