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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Renewable or green hydrogen involves producing hydrogen from renewable sources for example via electrolyzers powered by solar and wind. Earlier this month, ARENA also released a report that identified opportunities for Australia to export hydrogen as global demand for hydrogen increases in the next decade.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Components: WT = wind turbine; Fnd = foundation; EC = electrical connections, including substation; Inst = installation; IOo = input-output, other; Mnt = Maintenance, excluding replacement parts; RP = replacement parts; EOL = end-of-life. ships and spare parts”—to the total life cycle impacts of offshore wind power.

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MARCH 25, 2020

New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. Small particles in exhaust from burning fossil fuels creates “seeds” on which water vapor in the air can condense into cloud droplets. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Major corporate and public sector partners in Japan are launching an effort to test a full carbon-neutral hydrogen supply chain powered by renewable wind energy. While hydrogen is most commonly created through steam methane reforming, it can also be created from water through electrolysis. Use of fuel cell forklifts.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It is commonly thought that the greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower plants are similar to those of wind-generated power facilities. However, it too needs to be low impact to be useful in meeting global deep decarbonization goals. They also estimated emissions caused by flooding the reservoir. —Ocko and Hamburg (2019).

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MAY 29, 2019

SkyNRG, global market leader for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will develop Europe’s first dedicated plant for the production of SAF in Delfzijl. SHV Energy, global leader in LPG distribution, will also invest in the facility and will purchase the bioLPG produced.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Humankind is enamored with water. The machine, which can run autonomously or at the direction of a remote operator, goes around collecting the junk and gunk (like plastic bottles, oil spills, and algae) that float on the water, as well as detritus located up to 10 meters below the surface. Roomba for Rivers. Hooray for robot labor!

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JULY 15, 2020

Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. GE Global Research will optimize an oxy-combustion natural gas-fired turbine—the Allam-Fetvedt cycle—for flexible generation on a grid with high-variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration at near-zero carbon emissions. Colorado State University. 8 Rivers Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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JULY 10, 2022

The novel SMART-DAC technology is a natural wind driven process that captures CO 2 directly from air using membrane gas absorption with a liquid absorbent and regeneration of the absorbent by electrodialysis. Project Funding: £2,999,964.00. CO 2 CirculAir B.V., SMART-DAC”. Project Funding: £2,999,822.60. Project Funding: £2,997,822.16.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Global Algae Innovations, “Algae Direct Air Capture Scale-up to Multi-Acre Raceways”, $3,600,000. University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000. per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The novel system shows potential for tackling global problems in a patient, thoughtful, and human-scaled way.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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MARCH 13, 2013

Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $6.6 million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Report highlights include: Cape Wind’s troubles. Source: IRENA.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The high-resolution E3SM earth system model simulates the strongest storms with surface winds exceeding 150 mph—hurricanes that leave cold wakes that are 2 to 4 degrees Celsius cooler than their surroundings. Pictured here is global E3SM simulation showing eddy activity. Source: E3SM. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

About 160 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the city of Zhangjiakou with its rugged terrain boasts some of the richest wind and solar resources in China. Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far.

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MAY 19, 2012

Pollution warms the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study by a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Maryland published in Geophysical Research Letters. However, thunderheads are complicated, dynamic clouds.

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MARCH 10, 2013

Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Volkswagen’s worldwide conservation program is called Think Blue and it’s a global call to sustainable ecological action on our blue planet. Green power is electricity that is generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass, and low-impact hydro. 2012 baseline.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

KC Cottrell), a global leader in air pollution control based out of Seoul, Korea. In November 2007, Mantra acquired 100% outright ownership of the Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) technology, developed by the University of British Columbia’s Clean Energy Research Center. Mantra Venture Group Ltd.

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JULY 15, 2010

The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., The rise—which may aggravate monsoon flooding in Bangladesh and India—could have future impacts on both regional and global climate. The Indo-Pacific warm pool. Credit: NASA.

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MARCH 27, 2010

Arrows denote winds at this level derived from meteorological analysis, showing that the HCN maximum is linked with the upper tropospheric Asian monsoon anticyclone. The finding, published online 25 March in the journal Science , provides additional evidence of the global nature of air pollution and its effects far above Earth’s surface.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

A new study led by researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen has determined that for the last 10,000 years, the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has varied widely. This is probably due to changes in the prevailing wind systems. —Svend Funder, team leader.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. Contribute to international efforts to address global climate change. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

As global temperatures rise, greenhouse gases accumulate, and all signs point to Really Bad Things happening in the coming decades, Spectrum readers are clearly looking for a way out of our current climate predicament. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. In Tokyo, the fires merged into a firestorm so intense that it created its own wind system and set alight the city’s many wooden buildings. It has to be manually reset after water mains and gas lines have been checked and, if necessary, repaired.

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APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Water Resource Management : watershed, sewage, conservation, desalination.

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JUNE 1, 2012

We must ensure America’s entrepreneurs and manufacturers continue to have access to these critical materials so we can compete in the global energy economy. Universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms are eligible to compete and are encouraged to form partnerships when submitting their proposals.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Bottom: C2CNT Cement wind plant: The full oxy-fuel configuration is shown.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). Since 1990, methane emissions in the United States have decreased by 8%.

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JULY 22, 2010

In a new report released by the California Air Resources Board, scientists from the University of California at Davis and Berkeley estimate that rising temperatures from climate change will increase ozone levels in California’s major air basins. Now we have scientific evidence that higher temperatures are hurting our lungs, too.

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JULY 15, 2021

The initiative comes as the global electricity sector is clamoring for grid-storage solutions. The rise of intermittent renewables like solar and wind is driving a need for systems that can absorb excess power supplies and discharge them at a moment’s notice, to match the ebb and flow of power demand.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For the ADEPT project, the consortium comprises CPT, the European Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (EALABC), Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, Ford and the University of Nottingham. Due to the absence of rotor windings, SR machines possess low rotating inertias thus minimizing rotor losses. SpeedStart.

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