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UC Davis ITS researchers take a detailed look at water consumption and withdrawal requirements for ethanol

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While a number of studies have tired to assess the water consumption required for ethanol production, the results differ by orders of magnitude, with estimates ranging from 1.1 to 335 L/vehicle kilometer traveled (VKT) for Iowa and from 59 to 214 L/VKT for Nebraska. and from 0.29 L/VKT, respectively.

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The Case for EV Charging in Every City - Big or Small

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However, some of the demand lag comes down to the usual suspect: range anxiety. Batteries have made big strides, but they are still largely limited to about a 250-mile range on the high end. And big box stores like Walmart aren’t the only business that can benefit from this type of forward-thinking.

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kWh Billing and New EV Charging Tax Policies: What You Need to Know

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As of October 1, 2023, every US state except Michigan, Nebraska, Tennessee, and Wisconsin has passed the legislation needed to redefine a utility and allow kWh pricing. kWh tax in January 2024, with an exemption for chargers with less than 50kW capacity (Level 2 chargers range from 7.2-19.2kW, Oklahoma will also introduce the $0.03

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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The proposed route evaluated differs from the route analyzed in the 2011 Final Environmental Impact Statement in that it would avoid the environmentally sensitive Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ)-identified Sand Hills Region and no longer includes a southern segment from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf Coast area.

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BNL team devises new method to boost oil accumulation in plant leaves; implications for biofuel production

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To reveal the connections, Brookhaven’s Jillian Fan and other team members used a series of genetic tricks to systematically disable a range of enzymes to see whether and how each had an effect in regulating the various biochemical conversions. —John Shanklin.

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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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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. range of cultivation. Nebraska – Lincoln). system to pump, heat, store, and discharge the molten glass. field trials.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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In this project, Lehigh University will apply EFSA to high surface area conductive solid carbon sorbents for the adsorption and desorption of CO 2 across a wide range of process conditions. The EFSA technique has the potential for drastically reduced parasitic load compared with current carbon capture methodologies. DOE grant: $566,641).

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