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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Natural graphite often provides a low-cost option, despite the extensive processing needed to transform mined product into the high carbon, low impurity, technical grades required for lithium-ion batteries. Just 6% of China’s steel is currently produced in EAF, far below the global average of 25%.

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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FLyCLEEN will leverage the robustness and efficiency of metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells that are integrated with the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine-generator, yielding a hybrid system operating on synfuel with performance that maximizes the power density and energy efficiency of each component. University of Maryland.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. GE Global Research (Niskayuna, New York). Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Prometheus Innovations (Lafayette, Louisiana). Lorama Group Inc.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Today, this cap-and-trade program is considered one of the most efficient and cost-effective environmental initiatives ever implemented. Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Representatives Henry A.

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