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Clean Energy to provide LNG to Hawaii Gas; additional agreements in trucking, transit and refuse markets

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The two-year contract extension is for an estimated 5 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGEs) per year and is valued at over $10 million. Clean Energy announced that fueling has begun at a new public station in North Platte, Nebraska, which will service vehicles from KALM Transportation, UPS and Schmidt Liquid Transportation.

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Energy Research projects receive financial boost

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Among the projects to benefit are an effort to develop new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids with 6-20 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries at just one third of the cost; and a project to produce a flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms.

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ITOCHU invests in Flint Hills/Benefuel biodiesel project in US

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The joint venture—Duonix, LLC—is actively developing the first project, which is a retrofit of the 50-million-gallon-per-year facility in Beatrice, Nebraska. Benefuel and FHR have an exclusive agreement to develop and operate US-based biodiesel projects using Benefuel’s ENSEL technology.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). General Motors will develop a shape memory alloy (SMA) energy recovery device that will convert waste heat from car engines to electricity. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. More than 60% of all US energy lost is in the form of waste heat from power plants, industrial processes, and vehicles.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Nebraska – Lincoln). Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. photosynthesis, the process used by green plants to capture. light energy. Specifically, the team will redirect otherwise. Lawrence Berkeley. National Lab. Northeastern University.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUVs instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. By the way Boones plan covers: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. per barrel.

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