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MARCH 1, 2010

Researchers at the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC) have verified findings by Planar Energy that could lead to significant cost and performance improvements in large format batteries for practical electric vehicles, according to the company.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has designated Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, a national center for ocean energy research and development. As a public institution of higher education, Florida Atlantic University will also promote public awareness of ocean energy research and development.

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MAY 21, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Researchers at the University of Central Florida, with colleagues at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Tsinghua University, developed a new hybrid nanomaterial—a nonmetal plasmonic MoS 2 @TiO 2 heterostructure—for highly efficient photocatalytic H 2 generation from water.

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JUNE 5, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. Once treated, the clean water could be re-used for beneficial purposes, including supplemental cooling water at a power station.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

of the University of Central Florida, will develop sea level rise computer models to predict the impacts storms and rising water pose to the northern Gulf’s coastline, including shoreline and barrier island erosion. Partners in the study will also include representatives from the Northwest Florida Water Management District.

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MARCH 20, 2019

24M CTO Naoki Ota will present the Dual Electrolyte System at the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida later this month. Using compositionally distinct electrolytes is a game changer for battery manufacturing and we’ve proven the fundamental technology. —Rick Feldt, President and CEO of 24M.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Researchers from Auburn University are proposing the development of algae farms where carbon dioxide is received from carbon capture and biologically converted, via photosynthesis and anaerobic digestion, to CNG or LNG transportation fuels. It would not involve the food-for-fuels tradeoff, and it would not require arable land or clean water.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Researchers, led by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, have used a polymer-folding mechanism to develop a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that currently offers proton conductivity faster than Nafion by a factor of 2, the benchmark for fuel cell membranes. They collaborated with Kenneth B. Wagener, George B.

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JUNE 2, 2017

A team of scientists from Penn State and Florida State University have developed a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst consisting of synthesized stacked graphene and W x Mo 1–x S 2 alloy phases that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process.

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MAY 23, 2012

The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from forests to tundra, coral reefs to barrier islands. Some 29% of all historic seagrass meadows have been destroyed, mainly due to dredging and degradation of water quality. At least 1.5%

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the University of Illinois a $10.6-million, Improving photosynthetic efficiency will also help the plant conserve limited resources such as water and nitrogen, particularly under stress. Energycane will be evaluated at Florida and Mississippi, and Miscanthus will be tested at Illinois.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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MAY 31, 2012

one of the largest US-based, publicly-traded water utilities, is going to transition portions of its larger vehicle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG). Chairman and CEO Nicholas DeBenedict made the announcement before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Alternative Fuel Vehicles forum held at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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MAY 28, 2009

Ted Schuur, University of Florida and lead author of the study. A study in Nature Geoscience in March warned that warmer water temperatures could shift ocean currents in a way that would raise sea levels off the Northeast by about 8 inches (20 cm) more than the average global sea level rise. Permafrost.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

A new, University of Georgia-led study—the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge— found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean. —Samantha Joye.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Alternatively, aqueous (water-based) asymmetric ultracapacitors can provide improvements not only in cost, safety and in some cases, environmental impact, but can also provide greater energy and power densities than the non-aqueous approach.

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AUGUST 13, 2022

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Professor Jie Lian has been awarded $500,000 from the US Department of Energy as part of the Nuclear Energy University Research Program (NEUP) to conduct research and develop new materials that will make advanced nuclear reactors more resilient and economically efficient.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park. Princeton University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Utah State University. Montana State University.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Click to enlarge. Dr. Kenneth H.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Jeffrey Dangl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Katrien Devos, University of Georgia, Athens. Yiwei Jiang, Purdue University. Ray Ming, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Reddy, Colorado State University. Matias Kirst, University of Florida, Gainesville. DOE-BER funded project.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Alternatively, aqueous (water-based) asymmetric ultracapacitors can provide improvements not only in cost, safety and in some cases, environmental impact, but can also provide greater energy and power densities than the non-aqueous approach.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Researchers from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) have found that three UF/IFAS-developed sorghum varieties could produce up to 10,500 liters of ethanol per hectare (about 1,100 gallons US per acre). Castro is now a researcher at the University of Jaén in Spain.

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Juice Florida Spain 2014 150

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Much of southern Florida would disappear. The new study, by Jerry Mitrovica and Natalya Gomez at the University of Toronto and Peter Clark at Oregon State University, shows that the sea-level rise in excess of the eustatic value will be ~30% higher than previously predicted for US coastal sites. “We Source: Mitrovica et al.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. per gallon. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Florida-based PetroAlgae Inc. (PA) The licensee pays all capex, and provides CO 2 , land and water. ICOL is the 18 th largest petroleum company in the world, and is currently India’s largest company by sales. PetroAlgae’s basic business model is to license to national oil companies, refining companies, and food companies.

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MAY 30, 2010

Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Jerald Schnoor, the Allen S. The high energy tides (15 ft [4.6

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MAY 8, 2010

University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 The University of South Florida will develop and demonstrate an innovative thermal energy storage system based on materials that absorb heat when changing from a solid to a liquid and release heat when changing from a liquid to a solid.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Southern Company, El Paso Exploration & Production, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the University of Alabama are all participating in the field test, known as the Black Warrior CO 2 Storage Project. The SECARB members began injecting CO 2 at the Alabama test site on 15 June 2010.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (the MagLab) at Florida State University (FSU) will leverage existing capabilities to develop and demonstrate an integrated process to convert preprocessed corn stover into SAF through a catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP), biocrude intermediate upgrading pathway. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Dashed lines show US average emissions. Credit: ACS, Tessum et al.

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JULY 23, 2009

University of Georgia, Athens, $1,200,000. University of Florida, $643,000. Michigan Technological University, $900,000. This project will identify key regulators of root architecture in relation to nitrogen and water use in the bioenergy crop Populus using an integrated systems biology approach.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Further, Parker Hannifin has paired a RunWise transmission with a CNG engine in the series hybrid powertrain as a one-off to test the waters for such a combination, McGrew said. In 2010, Autocar and Parker began delivering hydraulic hybrid refuse vehicles to three South Florida municipalities. FedEx, UPS, etc. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Seven teams from universities and robotics companies worldwide remotely operated a Helelani rover through an obstacle course inspired by the game Capture the Flag. The 318-kilogram vehicle was provided by the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES), an aerospace research center at the University of Hawaii in Hilo.

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MARCH 7, 2022

The Clipper’s primary goal is to determine whether Europa hosts conditions suitable for life in an immense liquid water ocean that lies under its icy surface. Then it’s off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for an October 2024 launch.” NASA has selected SpaceX to launch the ~$4.25 NASA – March 3rd, 2022. Falcon Heavy, 2019.

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San Antonio Water Solar Florida 100

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MARCH 6, 2010

Some offset projects may provide further benefits, such as: (a) the promotion of sustainable development; (b) improvements in air or water quality; (c) the creation of new domestic and international economic opportunities; and (d) the incentivization of innovation as parties seek new methods of generating offsets. CCX, “ CCX Offsets Program.

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