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Novozymes receives $2.5M award from DOE to improve advanced biofuels production

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million (2001-2005). Development of a Commercial-Ready Enzyme Application System for Ethanol: $12.3 The product enables cost-efficient conversion of biomass to ethanol and performs 1.5 Prior contracts include: Bioenergy (subcontractor to National Renewable Energy Lab): $13.8 million (2008-2012). Earlier post.).

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Study shows bamboo ethanol in China technically and economically feasible, cost-competitive with gasoline

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In its development of biofuel policy, China’s 10 th five-year plan (2001–2005) proposed a biofuel industry to utilize surplus grain stocks. In their study, the Imperial College London team used liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment to enhance sugar release from bamboo lignocellulose while minimizing economic and environmental costs.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

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With low cost ceramic materials, and extremely high electrical efficiencies, SOFCs can deliver attractive economics without relying on CHP. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA).

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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