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JANUARY 21, 2021

American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions. Topic 1, Area of Interest 3: Large Scale Projects.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The result is a robust and self-healing super-slippery surface that is highly repellent to virtually any environmental challenge such as crude oil, cement, water, ice, biofouling, chemicals, paints, oils, and insects. BASF Venture Capital has led a $3-million Series A financing with a $1.5

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 14, 2020

The teams will develop digital twin technologies for robust O&M strategies that can facilitate, among other things, more flexible operations for integration into an electrical grid with a large fraction of intermittent generation resources. Nuclear energy is considered by many to be critical to achieving emissions reduction goals.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Microfractures in metal alloys, though impossible to see with the naked eye, can easily spread when exposed to water or hydrogen and lead to major problems in structures such as bridges, electrochemical and nuclear plants and hydrogen storage containers, leading to failures and expensive repairs. —Jonathan Lind. Suter, Silvija Grade?ak

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology of South Korea has demonstrated the feasibility of using proton-exchange-membrane (PEM) reactors electrocatalytically to reduce biomass-derived oxygenates into renewable fuels and chemicals. Tompsett, G.

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JULY 16, 2009

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources. The goal of the project is to enable power generation from low-temperature geothermal resources at an economical cost. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Global infrastructure company Ferrovial and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just signed a five-year agreement, with Ferrovial joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) to support a range of research projects on transforming critical urban infrastructures of the future.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When methane hydrates are “melted,” or exposed to pressure and temperature conditions outside those where the formations are stable, the solid crystalline lattice turns to liquid water, and the enclosed methane molecules are released as gas. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Earlier post.). The University of Texas at Austin.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Soot particles are formed when gaseous molecules are heated to high temperatures, and they don’t easily turn back to gaseous molecules the way water droplets do when they are heated up. Making soot is more like baking a cake than it is like condensing water. Resources. Strong chemical bonds hold soot particles together.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

The 4D printing concept, which allows materials to self-assemble into 3D structures, was initially proposed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty member Skylar Tibbits in April of this year. Tibbits and his team combined a strand of plastic with a layer made out of smart material that could self-assemble in water.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have introduced a new method for making transparent, dirt-repellant coatings that can be applied very quickly and easily. The coatings repel both water and oily liquids and are stable at higher pressures and temperatures. A paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

As part of the planet’s reciprocal relationship between ocean circulation and climate, the AMOC transports warm surface water to high latitudes where the water warms the air, then cools, sinks and returns toward the equator as a deep flow. ” We present the first comprehensive measurements of the NIJ.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Joule’s process achieves a high net energy balance while avoiding the depletion of arable land, fresh water or crops. The continuous Helioculture production process requires no biomass intermediates, removing resource limitations and costly processing from the equation. The plant will be operational within the first half of 2010.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Dr. George Huber, have selectively tuned the chemistry of their aqueous phase hydrodeoxygenation (APHDO) process of biomass to make biogasoline with about 70% carbon yield. One of the bigger concerns is water solubility, he said in response to a question at the talk.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

In a still repressed economy during an era when “no new taxes” is the mindless mantra that forces cutbacks and the elimination of educational programs and resources, the only place the dollars are going to come from are nontraditional, innovative sources. (Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia). Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Specific activities will include offshore wind market and economic analysis; environmental risk reduction; manufacturing and supply chain development; transmission planning and interconnection strategies; optimized infrastructure and operations; and wind resource characterization. Next-Generation Drivetrain (up to $7.5

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

However, the resulting bio-oils are typically high in oxygen, water, solids and acids. The addition of hydrogen also raises the proportion of oxygen lost as water relative to CO and CO 2 and thereby further raises the proportion of carbon incorporated into marketable compounds. Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Reconstructions of past hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the most active hurricane period in the past was during the Medieval Climate Anomaly about a thousand years ago when climate conditions created a “perfect storm” of La Niña-like conditions combined with warm tropical Atlantic waters. Michael Mann. issue of Nature.

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JULY 26, 2012

The oxy-combustion process replaces the air used for combustion with a mixture of oxygen and recycled plant emissions (flue gas) and/or water for temperature control. DOE Investment: $700,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $175,000. Unity Power Alliance.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity.

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JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. DOE Funding: $460,696; Non-DOE Funding: $153,865; Total Funding: $614,561.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Halophytes thrive in arid land and can be irrigated with sea water, making them suitable for biofuel development; Abu Dhabi is thus a viable location for conducting a lifecycle-analysis study on the plants. Halophytes can be productive sources of biomass energy; for example, salicornia seed is 32% oil by mass. Earlier post.).

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JULY 27, 2009

Joule says that its direct-to-fuel conversion requires no agricultural land or fresh water, and leverages a highly scalable system capable of producing more than 20,000 gallons of renewable ethanol or hydrocarbons per acre annually. Founded in 2007 by Flagship Ventures, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

However, the report notes, renewable energy price improvements are not universal, and costs range widely according to resources and the availability of financing. There are no technical barriers to the increased integration of variable renewable resources, such as solar and wind energy. Source: IRENA. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2022

Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. He can dive under water and come up dry. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Watertown, Massachusetts). Newton, Massachusetts). Real Time-Optimal Power Flow based Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS), $299,329. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois). Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. De Nora Tech, LLC (Concord, Ohio).

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AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE Funding: $1,499,238; Non-DOE Funding: $375,000; Total Value: $1,874,238 Lower-Cost, CO 2 -Free H 2 Production via CH 4 Pyrolysis in Molten Tin — Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers intend to employ a novel methane pyrolysis approach to produce low-cost hydrogen that does not producecarbon dioxide as a byproduct.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Deuterium atoms diffuse into the electrode material from the heavy water used in the electrolyte. Hagelstein is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The process is created by purposely creating defects in the metal electrode of the cell. Xing Zhong Li, Ph.D., Li is a scientist with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. Engine: Air Squared, Aradex, Atkinson LLC, Bowman, Daimler, Gigatronik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Obrist. Fleet: Schneider, Walmart.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

We've seen it all in the press: electric cars are more polluting , less safe, require too much water , will electrocute rescuers after a crash, will spontaneously explode , and will kill the blind. It takes a sustained effort to sow confusion about the obvious benefits of electric cars.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. into a reliable, dispatchable distributed generation resource. 16,080,554.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. would leverage abundant, domestic natural gas resources and. Massachusetts, Lowell. The reactor delivers.

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AUGUST 4, 2013

The nation’s first wind energy lease sale for an area offshore Rhode Island and Massachusetts was held on 31 July. President Obama had earlier challenged Interior to re-double efforts on the renewable energy program by approving an additional 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy production on public lands and waters by 2020.

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MAY 15, 2021

At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has engineered the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce biodiesel-like lipids and alkanes.

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JUNE 10, 2020

In addition to WSU, the team included researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Stony Brook University; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Foshan University in China; and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. When hydrogen is used as fuel, their only waste product is water. Gray, Steven R. Saunders, M. 2020.118626.

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