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Battelle team developing new hybrid direct coal-to-liquids process to produce jet fuel; lower costs and GHGs

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The conversion of coal to syncrude is carried out at a relatively low pressure without requiring gaseous hydrogen or a catalyst. The Battelle process offers a significant reduction in capital and operating costs and a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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With all this, consumers and policymakers alike are hopeful that society will soon greatly reduce its carbon emissions by replacing today’s cars with electric vehicles. EVs lack tailpipe emissions, sure, but producing, operating, and disposing of these vehicles creates greenhouse-gas emissions and other environmental burdens.

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Libertine LPE free piston technology targeting power generation, waste-heat recovery and range-extended EV applications; feasibility study with PETRONAS

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UK startup Libertine LPE has developed a free piston linear power generator technology that it says overcomes the key challenges faced by earlier free piston engine schemes of motion control, emissions and power conversion efficiency. Both could reduce the engine’s efficiency and increase tailpipe emissions. Earlier post.)

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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

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In ULTIMATE Phase 2, up to $14 million in additional funds will be available to teams. West Virginia University. Selective Thermal Emission Coatings for Improved Turbine Performance – $600,000. Selected projects are: GE Research. ULTIMATE Refractory Alloy Innovations for Superior Efficiency (RAISE) - $1,600,000.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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The project will ultimately provide data in community-defined formats that will be made available to researchers in a high-performance computing environment and archived for public use. Compared to conventional electricity generation and transmission, CHP captures the otherwise wasted heat and makes it available for useful application.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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USDA’s report identifies numerous biomass feedstocks to be utilized in developing biofuels and calls for the funding of further investments in research and development of: Feedstock; Sustainable production and management systems; Efficient conversion technologies and high-value bioproducts; and. Decision support and policy analysis tools.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions).