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Gevo, Los Alamos to collaborate to develop high-energy-density renewable missle fuel

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Gevo and LANL are looking to develop a low-cost, catalytic technology that would be bolted-on to Gevo’s existing isobutanol-to-hydrocarbons process to produce high energy density fuels (HEDFs). Photocatalytic (visible light) cylcoadditions would increase energy density upon cyclization by at least 100 kJ/mol.

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants. The cost of the project, estimated at US $1.9 The result of these generations-old alliances is a U.S.

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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today

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Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. Xcel Energy will help lead the way in its own operations, with plans to electrify all sedans by 2023, electrify all light-duty vehicles by 2030 and have 30% of its medium- and heavy-duty vehicles electrified by 2030.

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University of Houston team demonstrates new efficient solar water-splitting catalyst for hydrogen production

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The project involved researchers from UH, along with those from Sam Houston State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Texas State University, Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC, and Sichuan University. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials.

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DOE awarding up to $4.6M to four projects for advanced hydrogen storage materials

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Select DOE Onboard Hydrogen Storage Targets for Light-Duty Fuel Cell Vehicles. Texas A&M University of College Station, Texas, will receive up to $1.2M to develop new low-cost hydrogen sorbents that have high hydrogen sorption capacities that exceed the “Chahine rule” (roughly 1 wt% H 2 uptake per 500 m 2 g ?

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Mad Power thoughts

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When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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