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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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AQDSH 2 refers to the reduced form of AQDS. Quinones are abundant in crude oil as well as in green plants. If the market price fluctuates enough, you could put a storage device there and buy electricity to store it when the price is low and then sell it back when the price is high. Cell schematic. Huskinson et al.

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$10-Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price Spike Says OPEC

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OPEC says that $10 trillion worth of investment will need to flow into oil and gas through 2040 in order to meet the world’s energy needs. The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. mb/d between 2020 and 2025, 3.3

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ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

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Offshore operation limits competition for useful land, can allow access to oceanic CO 2 storage sites currently only reachable by pipeline, and can provide a source of CO 2 for offshore enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Finally, DOC represents a direct reversal of ocean acidification caused by anthropogenic CO 2 emissions.

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Life Technologies and SG Biofuels Complete Sequence of Jatropha Genome

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The sequence significantly accelerates the identification of key traits for the oilseed-producing crop and advances its development as a high yielding, low-cost source for next generation biofuel. This work will also advance the introduction of transgenic plants with further improved traits.

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Lloyd’s Register and UMAS release Zero Emission Vessels 2030 study

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All analyses are performed against a heavy fuel oil (HFO) reference ship. For those in shipping with niche access to a low-cost supply of zero-emission fuel or energy sources, or an ability to pass on a voyage cost premium to a supply chain that values zero-emission services, the gap may already be closed.

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Altex & Unitel partner to demonstrate a new technology for making synthetic gasoline from biomass

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However, in contrast to other processes which partially condense the volatile gases to form pyrolysis oil, in the Altex system, the volatile gases are fed directly to a second non-catalytic reactor. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g., Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —US 9199889.

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Mid-project data from Oak Ridge study suggests hydrogen vehicles could have up to 70% market share by 2050

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The study project—which is 50% complete—is using ORNL’s Market Acceptance of Advanced Automotive Technologies (MA3T) discrete choice model, with the baseline calibrated to the US Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2011 reference case. The key factor in H 2 V success is fuel cell technology.

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