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UC Riverside receives $1.2M grant to build GPUs for autonomous vehicles

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million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new generation of energy-efficient, energy-elastic, and real-time-aware GPUs suitable for use in resource-constrained environments such as emerging embedded and autonomous systems, including aerial drones and autonomous vehicles. —Daniel Wong.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. The first call for large-scale projects awarded grants of €1.1

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Twelve and LanzaTech successfully convert CO2 to ethanol

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It’s also often produced using corn and other crop feedstocks, but this approach is dependent on crops that otherwise could be used to grow food or waste feedstocks. Our process aims to rebalance the overabundance of carbon in our environment and instead reuse it for meaningful applications. —LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren.

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Cal Energy awards GTI $1M grant to demo production-intent version of CWI 6.7L medium-duty natural gas engine with HD-OBD

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The California Energy Commission awarded the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) a $1-million grant to demonstrate a production-intent advanced version of the Cummins Westport Inc. This in turn protects the environment from excess emissions due to engine issues and prevents costly progressive engine damage. CWI) ISB6.7 G natural gas engine.

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INEOS Bio Begins Advanced Waste-to-Ethanol Plant Feasibility Study

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The INEOS Bio waste-to-ethanol process, originally developed by BRI. million) grant from the Regional Development Agency One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change. The challenge now, in the current economic environment, is to commercialize in Europe. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). million (US$5.9

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US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Makes Two Awards for Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery Technology

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The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has recently made two awards to researchers to support multi-year projects on the development of thermoelectric (TE) waste heat recovery technologies. Such devices can recover some of the energy embedded in waste heat, such as that produced by exhaust gas from an engine.

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US targeting net-zero aviation by 2050; heavy focus on SAF

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Analysis conducted by BlueSky leveraging R&D efforts from the FAA Office of Environment & Energy (AEE) regarding CO 2 emissions contributions from aircraft technology, operational improvements, and SAF. Source: US Aviation Climate Action Plan.

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