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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

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Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. The calculated relative amounts of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases from eight different energy sources are shown in the table below. Energy source. New Mexico. New Mexico Ohio.

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DOE announces $18.6M to support production of low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) awarded $18.6 million in funding to eight university and industry projects to develop biomass feedstocks to produce affordable biofuels and bioproducts that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. 4,551,944 . 4,551,944 . 4,551,944

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Advent Technologies to collaborate with Los Alamos, UT Austin, RPI, UNM and Toyota in the development of next-generation HT-PEM fuel cell technology

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The program is funded by an Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) OPEN award. We at Advent are committed to bringing HT-PEM technology to the market. The purpose of the development program is to use HT-PEM technology operating at 80 ?C

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Study estimates that PM2.5 pollution in US was responsible for 107,000 premature deaths in 2011; 28% associated with transportation

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A new study by a team from the University of New Mexico, University of Washington and the University of Minnesota examines the health and economic impacts of PM 2.5 Of these deaths, 57% were associated with pollution caused by energy consumption [e.g., precursor emissions.

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Integral and separate effects tests for advanced reactors

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Researchers at the University of New Mexico detail technologies that will pave the way towards commercialising advanced reactors. The post Integral and separate effects tests for advanced reactors appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C In the past two years, the U.S. C in this century.

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