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Linc Energy Acquires Wyoming Coal Assets for Underground Gasification and Gas-to-Liquids

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Australia-based Linc Energy Limited has signed a purchase agreement to acquire a 100% interest in 92,059 acres of coal tenement lease areas in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming USA from GasTech Inc, a company based in Casper Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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Partners: Harper International, Phillips66. Phinix,LLC; Rare Earth Element Separation Using Gas-Assisted Micro-Flow Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids Partners: NICHE Industrial Chemicals, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DOE share:$500,000; Cost share $225,000; Total costs: $725,000.

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General Synfuels to Test In-Situ Oil Shale Gasification Technology in Wyoming and Colorado

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General Synfuels International (GSI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Earth Search Sciences, Inc., has secured an exploration agreement for lands in Wyoming and rights to a separate oil shale resource opportunity in Colorado. The system is intended to be able to recover gas and oil from an oil shale formation at potentially any depth.

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General Synfuels Forms $10M Technology Partnership for Oil Shale Prototype Plant

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General Synfuels International (GSI), a subsidiary of Earth Search Sciences, Inc., to complete funding of the Phase 1 construction of a full-scale prototype oil shale plant under construction in Rock Springs, Wyoming. has formed the $10-million “Patriot’s Oil Shale Technology Fund L.P.”, Earlier post.).

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EIA releases report on CO2 emissions by state; California led in 2010 with transportation-sector emissions

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In terms of per capita emissions, the top emitter was Wyoming (118.5 California consistently imports about 30% of its electricity and natural gas is the dominant fuel for the electricity that it generates internally. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., Overview of Enefit280.

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