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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Improving the capacity and efficiency of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) is an enduring challenge of green energy production and artificial photosynthesis. Still, while HER in organisms evolved with time and increasing complexity, artificial HER aims to replicate the same with minimalism and simplicity. —Bryan Kaehr.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

We’re now able to deliver a full suite of ‘Near Zero’ emissions options for the on-highway market, and we feel these products give the industry an economically viable way to reduce emissions while maintaining performance and low cost of operation. —Tom Hodek, Cummins Westport Sales and VPI Program Director.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The first trials on the demo plant in Leuna were successfully completed, within schedule, in the fall of 2016 and Global Bioenergies announced first production of green isobutene via fermentation. Isobutene is also used to manufacture a wide variety of materials and chemicals such as rubbers, plastics, organic glass, paints and cosmetics.

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JULY 6, 2017

This potentially could reduce enzyme costs in biofuels production. However, lignin, an organic polymer in biomass that binds to and strengthens plant fibers, inactivates the cellulase enzymes via non-productive binding interactions. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The Sensors teams will develop ultra-low-energy distributed sensors to improve production efficiency in agriculture, boosting viability for bioenergy crops and reducing the energy and water requirements for agriculture more broadly. Energy-Water Technologies cohort. Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture cohort.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $15.8

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected three projects to receive up to $8 million, aimed at reducing the costs of producing algal biofuels and bioproducts. These projects are to deliver high-impact tools and techniques for increasing the productivity of algae organisms and cultures. Global Algae Innovations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

The goal is to improve BOP component efficiency and reliability, reducing costs and presenting a stable supply chain to the European car manufacturers and system integrators. Total cost of the project, which involves 10 European organizations, is €6.2 million (US$7.1 million), with €5 million (US$5.7 million) provided by the EU.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Lead organization. By the end of Phase II, Mainstream plans to demonstrate a production-ready prototype that exceeds DOE targets for fuel economy, operating range, and cost. Low-Cost, High-Energy Si/Graphene Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries. Composite Coatings for Low-Cost Motor Windings in Electric Vehicles.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

and Purdue University, has launched the first project selected with a dual focus on decreasing the cost of manufacture and increasing design flexibility for automotive composites. Composite parts made by this process have been shown to have low voids and good mechanical properties when consolidated by traditional techniques.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Using CO~2, sunlight and water, Proterro lowers the cost of sugar production to around $0.05/lb This process yields a fermentation-ready sucrose stream, rather than a mixture of sugars, allowing simple, low-cost downstream processing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Identify a compelling pathway to a battery cost of. No/low cobalt and no/low nickel-content cathodes [e.g., sulfur-based, highly abundant/low-cost transition metal oxides, halides, sulfides, phosphates, and new organic/inorganic hosts]. These processes may come from battery or non-battery operations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Another option is to use the CO 2 as a reagent to create useful products, such as cement, plastics, or liquid fuels. —DE-FOA-0001622.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The effort is part of a project targeting the development of automotive fuel cells using CAC, led by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Teijin has been developing and refining its CAC technologies in collaboration with researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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MAY 16, 2018

household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled—into a low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel product. By converting waste into low-carbon transportation fuel, Fulcrum provides a real solution to the aviation industry’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions. —Jim Macias, Fulcrum’s President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The maximum DOE cost share per project would be $900,000 for a project with a total cost of $1,000,000.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The project aims to increase the generation of clean, low cost, efficient energy. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions.

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JULY 4, 2013

Summary of levelized production cost estimates of fuel (LCOF) for the examined plant designs. A study by researchers at Finland’s VTT has concluded that it is possible to produce sustainable low-carbon fuels from lignocellulosic biomass for as estimated gasoline-equivalent production cost of 0.5–0.7 Source: VTT.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use. The Precourt Institute for Energy, the umbrella organization for energy research and education at Stanford, will fund the following four studies: Nanostructured Polymers for High-Performance Batteries.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Due to the high performance and low cost of the metal, the cobalt catalyst has potential applications in energy-related technologies such as the production of biofuels, and the reduction of carbon dioxide. The findings of the Los Alamos team suggest that cobalt complexes are rich with possibility for future catalyst development.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Organic compounds that can be obtained from natural biomass with minimum energy consumption are an attractive low-cost and sustainable choice for battery electrode materials, provided a high energy density and long cycling stability can be obtained. The sodium salt makes up the cathode; the anode is made up of phosphorous.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. From 2022 through 2024, Xcel Energy will invest more than $3.1

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APRIL 25, 2010

is a research & development organization engaged in the design, development and prototype manufacturing of advanced fuel systems for use with DME. The company’s ultima goal is series production of DME fuel systems for the global automotive market by 2011. Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. ITFCs with fuel production capability. DE-FOA-0001026 ).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the joint R&D with NEDO, Nitto Denko will fully leverage its polymer membranes expertise in domains such as seawater desalination and gas/vapor separation to reduce the production cost of bioethanol as well as the energy consumption for its distillation/dehydration.

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AUGUST 6, 2016

Researchers at MIT and startup Novogy have engineered bacteria and yeast ( Escherichia coli , Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Yarrowia lipolytica ) used as producer microbes in biofuel production to use rare compounds as sources of nutrients. —Jeff Lievense. Resources. Joe Shaw, Felix H.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

It is currently the only GM EV in production, as Bolt EV manufacturing lines have been halted until 2022 due to battery malfunctions. Both commercial and retail customers will benefit from the EV experience, from exhilarating acceleration to low cost of operation, versatility, and ability to customize after the sale.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production ( earlier post ), and American Process Inc. GreenPower+ is a patent-pending API process to add an extraction module and ethanol production module (and now biobutanol) to a biomass boiler. Click to enlarge. Greenpower+.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The US Department of Energy has announced the 2016 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase I Release 2 Topics, covering eight DOE research program organizations. DOE plans to issue the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) on 30 November 2015.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Organization. Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Organization. Organization. Description. Big Delta Systems, working with ANL. XG Sciences, working with LBNL.

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JULY 9, 2014

While a myriad of silicon nanostructures have exhibited excellent electrochemical performance as anode materials, many of them lack scalability due to the high cost of precursors and equipment setups or the inability to produce material at the gram or kilogram level. —Favors et al. mm to the micrometer and nanometer scale.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

Their hybrid approach combines the highly efficient light harvesting of inorganic semiconductors with the high specificity, low cost, and self-replication and -repair of biocatalysts. thermoacetica serves as an ideal model organism for demonstrating the capabilities of this hybrid artificial photosynthesis system.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Cost savings can be achieved by reducing material costs (notably platinum use), increasing power density, reducing system complexity and improving durability. Our new analysis shows that the future is bright but innovation is essential to unlock the market potential by driving down the costs of new polymer fuel cells.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

The objective of this topic is to develop an entirely new paradigm for the production of liquid fuels that could overcome the challenges associated with current technologies. Although photosynthetic routes show promise, overall efficiencies remain low. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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MAY 1, 2014

H 2 FIRST’s technical goal is to develop and apply physical testing, numerical simulation and technology validation to help create low-cost, high-performance materials, components and station architectures.

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APRIL 5, 2016

This use of light olefins as building blocks results in good control of the product composition as with a traditional gasification/F-T process. It also reduces cost by avoiding the need for hot-gas cleanup and F-T catalysts. In contrast to traditional pyrolysis, the main product can be used as a high-value liquid fuel.

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