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GE Energy Financial Services joins $8M investment round in biomass-to-gasoline startup

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Gas chromatograph traces of conventional 87 octane gasoline (top) and CoolPlanetBioFuels drop-in gasoline produced from corn cobs. CoolPlanetFuels’s proprietary biofractionator modules can produce a range of high-value hydrocarbon fuel components at low cost. Source: CoolPlanetBioFuels. Click to enlarge.

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CMU study finds that HEVs and PHEVs with small battery packs offer more emissions and oil displacement benefits per dollar spent than large pack PHEVs and BEVs; policy implications

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Strategies to promote adoption of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with small battery packs offer more social benefits (i.e., In our base case, we assume average US values for emissions and damage valuation of electricity generation, oil refining, vehicle. Michalek et al.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. coli; Product: Isooctane. Electrofuels.

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Maverick Synfuels introduces affordable small-scale methane gas-to-liquid modular methanol plants

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Maverick Synfuels ( earlier post ) introduced a small-scale, modular methane-to-methanol production plant that can be co-located at the methane source. The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return. —Sam Yenne, Maverick CEO.

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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

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High-level findings of the MIT study include: There are abundant supplies of natural gas in the world, and many of these supplies can be developed and produced at relatively low cost.

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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

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From two-wheeled scooters, a mainstay of urban mobility, and urban mass transit, to high-speed inter-urban rail, China will soon see the day most people move about most of the time on electricity. For a while, gas scooters held sway piled high with people and products. And most of the scooters are now electric.

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UC Riverside researchers receive two grants to advance steam hydrogasification reaction for waste-to-fuels

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The steam hydrogasification reaction is one component of a three-step process for the production of fuels. diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost. Production of Synthetic Fuels from Carbonaceous. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Hydrogasification has been used since the 1930s as a method of making methane gas from.

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