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UH team reports new catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater; promising for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination

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Researchers say the device, composed of inexpensive non-noble metal nitrides, manages to avoid many of the obstacles that have limited earlier attempts to inexpensively produce hydrogen or safe drinking water from seawater. The researchers tested the catalysts with seawater drawn from Galveston Bay off the Texas coast.

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Shell, Saudi Aramco JV complete 5-year Texas refinery expansion; 600,000 barrels per day, US’ largest

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Motiva, the joint venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco, marked the completion of a five-year construction project that more than doubled the daily processing capacity of the Motiva Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas to 600,000 barrels of crude. The sulfur recovery units (SRU) will process amine acid gas and sour water acid gas.

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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As we move toward attempting to avoid, minimize and remove the US’s 7-billion-ton carbon dioxide footprint from the atmosphere, we are going to need a range of alternatives that remove and store carbon. the Nature Conservancy; Audubon Texas; Applied Ecological Services Inc.; —Jim Blackburn.

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Hard Plastics Decomposing in Oceans, Releasing Endocrine Disruptor BPA

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Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships.

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EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. Genomatica has entered into partnerships with several major companies including Tate & Lyle, M & G (a major European chemicals producer), Waste Management, and Mitsubishi Chemical to implement their technology at a commercial scale.

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IBM releases fifth annual Next Five in Five list of near-term significant innovations; personalized routing for commuting/transportation makes the cut

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Kyoto University and IBM Research - Tokyo have developed a system that can simulate a broad range of urban transport situations involving millions of vehicles. In today’s transistor, energy is constantly leaking or being lost or wasted in the off-state.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. A differential absorption light detection and ranging (lidar) instrument will be built to scan across a field test area to determine possible CO 2 leakage to the atmosphere. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas.

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