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UGI and Vertimass in 15-year agreement to produce renewable fuels in the US and Europe; $500M investment; propane and SAF

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Other benefits include the ability to lower plant water usage, reduce overall energy consumption, and drop GHG emissions to levels required for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Advanced Biofuel category. Possibly debottleneck processes to increase throughput with little additional costs other than for feedstock.

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MIT Researchers Engineer Viruses as Scaffolds for Photocatalytic Water Oxidation

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Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. The virus is a very efficient harvester of light, with these porphyrins attached.

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

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million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Advanced Water Splitting Materials. Scalable Elastomeric Membranes for Alkaline Water Electrolysis.

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Alcoa to roll out lightest heavy-duty truck wheel in Europe, offering increased fuel efficiency, payload

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Regular cleaning with commonly used truck cleaning products or with just soap and water will keep the wheels shiny, even after hundreds of washes and thousands of kilometers, reducing maintenance costs. The Ultra ONE Wheel is made with the strongest wheel alloy on the market, Alcoa’s MagnaForce alloy.

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Scientists design adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability; applications in pipelines, textiles, optical systems

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As shown in the diagram, when stretched, the material confers the ability to reversibly “pin” droplets of water. Sitting at rest, the material is smooth, clear and flat; droplets of water or oil on its surface flow freely off of the material. Source: Wyss. Click to enlarge. —Xi Yao. Mahadevan, Ph.D., and Tak-Sing Wong, Ph.D.,

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Study finds surprisingly high geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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Water at the base of the ice streams is thought to provide the lubrication that speeds their motion, carrying large volumes of ice out onto the floating ice shelves at the edges of the ice sheet. at UC Santa Cruz and is now at Pennsylvania State University, and current UCSC graduate student Neil Foley. —Andrew Fisher.

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DOE awarding $12.5M to nuclear energy projects, training

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improve the performance and efficiency of light. water reactors. efficiency of both light water reactors and. The project will examine whether post-irradiation heating can reduce or eliminate cracks in steel that can occur in light water reactors materials after years of operation. Los Alamos. Laboratory.

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