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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. Aspen Plus software will be used for process design simulation.

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

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And unlike conventional nuclear fission, fusion comes with no risk of meltdowns or weaponization, and no long-lived nuclear waste. According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951. Fusion reactions have powered the sun since it formed an estimated 4.6

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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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will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. Gradient Amine Sorbents for Low Vacuum Swing CO 2 Capture at Ambient Temperature. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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