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UMass Amherst Licenses Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Technology to Startup Anellotech to Produce Renewable Biogasoline

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Huber’s patent-pending technique offers a low-cost, single-step process for turning sawdust, woody stalks and other waste biomass into gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and valuable chemical commodities such as benzene, toluene and xylenes. to assist in pilot plant design. Earlier post.).

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. Membrane Technology and Research (MTR) Inc.

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A First Timer’s Guide to Skiing in Japan

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The price of an international flight is easily outweighed by the relatively low cost of access to endless powder and excellent facilities. Its actually cheaper for me to fly to Japan and go skiing there than to spend a week at a place like Aspen or Vail, Ms. With the U.S. Passes: 9,700 a day. Doubles start at 44,000 a night.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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For a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. We’re seeing new optimized designs that we weren’t capable of coming up with even 10 years ago. Many magnetic-confinement designs—including the $24.5 its parts hand-labeled in marker.

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