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DOE awarding ~$44M to seven carbon capture projects

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Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Non-Aqueous Solvent-Based CO 2 Capture Process at Technology Centre Mongstad RTI International will advance its non-aqueous (water lean) solvent-based CO 2 capture technology and tests will be performed using the existing large-scale pilot infrastructure at the Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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for an Advanced Nanocomposites in Renewable Energy Laboratory for designing, prototyping and testing large structural hybrid composite and nanocomposite components for the deep water offshore wind energy industry; $12.3 million to the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (Lincoln, Neb.) (Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

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and partners plan to perform a system integrated design study on an oxygen-blown gasification system coupled with water-gas shift, pre-combustion CO 2 capture, and pressure-swing adsorption working off a coal/biomass mix to yield high-purity hydrogen and a fuel off-gas that can generate power.

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DOE and USDA Award $6.3M for Genomics-Enabled Biofuels Research

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3) To study the genetic variation (extent of linkage disequilibrium in populations) and eventually develop genetic markers for cold-adaptation and fitness traits in switchgrass plants being developed for the Central and Northern United States that show significant hybrid vigor (heterosis). University of Nebraska, Lincoln, $390,000.

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

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Water (1 project). If successfully developed, this transformational new energy storage technology would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid and electric vehicles. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. Earlier post.) ENERGY STORAGE.

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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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that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. Nebraska – Lincoln). Thermal Fuel: HybriSol Hybrid nanostructures for high-energy-density solar thermal fuels Using innovative nanomaterials, MIT will develop a thermal. heating and water purification. Electric Vehicle: Thermal Storage Using Hybrid Vapor.

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