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Neo Performance Materials and Energy Fuels launching US-European rare earth production initiative

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Energy Fuels will process the monazite sands into a mixed rare earth carbonate (RE Carbonate) in Utah for use as feed material for Neo’s value-added separated rare earth production plant in Europe. Energy Fuels is also continuing to evaluate developing additional value-added US rare earth production capabilities in Utah in the future.

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NREL study suggests cost gap for Western renewables could narrow by 2025

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A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. Geothermal Power Generation Solar Wind'

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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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. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. Raleigh, N.C. SunPower, San Jose, Calif.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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The project will be underpinned by technoeconomic and lifecycle analysis simulations that will aid in optimizing process configurations for reducing carbon intensity and operating costs. University of Utah, “Entrained-Flow Biomass Gasification with Syngas Fermentation for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels” $2,000,000.

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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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High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

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cost associated with thermal management. Utah State University. Utah State University will develop electronic hardware and. project integrates a unique, low-cost membrane with a new. sources like solar and wind for small commercial and. electrolyte materials composed of low cost iron.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. Your range and long range and low cost. And a fixed-wing aircraft over something that can hover has something like an 800% advantage in range and cost. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft.