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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Source: University of Leicester. Owen Cooper.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

By disrupting normal societal activities such as driving, COVID-19 lockdowns afforded a unique opportunity to study their impacts on the environment.

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MAY 3, 2018

Via Mobility Services, a local nonprofit social enterprise, operates Boulder’s HOP transit route, a high-frequency shuttle service serving Boulder hotspots like the University of Colorado campus and Downtown Boulder. That’s the motivation we’ve had for doing this. —Frank Bruno, CEO, Via Mobility Services.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Colorado State University. University of Pittsburgh.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Colorado State University. $5. UQM Technologies, Inc. Muncie, IN Holly, MI.

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JULY 12, 2011

A new modeled study by researchers at Colorado State University, the University of Illinois, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) finds that biofuel grasses have the potential to replace corn-based ethanol in a way that is both environmentally and economically beneficial. —Davis et al.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Households with plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and smart meters actively managed how, when and where they charged their cars based on electricity rates but rarely took advantage of online feedback, according to a two-year study by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute ( RASEI ).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This amount will be produced through multiple batch campaigns or on a semi-continuous or continuous basis, in an outdoor test environment, by 2020. BETO expects that projects selected under this ABY2 FOA will help demonstrate a reasonable and realistic plan to produce 3,700 gal/acre/yr by the end of the performance period.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Animated graphics help people visualize their city and their personal emissions to illustrate how their actions are affecting the environment in which they live. The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. —Professor Gurney.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

the Environment. Colorado Energy. The project REFUEL COLORADO, A Roadmap to Increase Alternative Fuel. Use in Colorado will work to add alternative fuel vehicles to State. University, North. University of Central. The California Fleets and Workplace Alternative Fuels Project is a statewide. Center for.

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JULY 7, 2020

University of Colorado Boulder researchers, with colleagues at Boston University, have developed a new optical phased array concept—the serpentine OPA (SOPA)—that could support medium- to long-range lidar. co-author and associate professor of engineering at Boston University. —Miloš A.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

—Dr Johan Kuylenstierna, co-author and Policy Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Anenberg, Daven K. Henze, Veronica Tinney, Patrick L. Kinney, William Raich, Neal Fann, Chris S.

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JULY 2, 2014

In 1989, HCI began blending various ratios of hydrogen and natural gas and testing them in an emissions laboratory at Colorado State University. Hythane (a combination of hydrogen and methane) was developed in the laboratory of a company called Hydrogen Components, Inc. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, (RASEI)—a joint venture with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory—will partner with Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. Toyota Motor Sales will supply 18 Prius PHVs for the two-year program. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. University of California, San Diego. Colorado School of Mines. University of Houston.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

Methane hydrate can form in Arctic and marine environments. University of California at San Diego. University of Mississippi. University of New Hampshire. Oregon State University. Southern Methodist University. The University of Texas at Austin. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge. Description. DOE Funding.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt. Barrie Gasson, University of Cape Town. Yvonne Hansen, University of Cape Town. Timothy Hillman, University of Colorado. Miroslav Havránek, Charles University Environment Center.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Through its venture capital fund BMW i Ventures, the BMW Group has taken a stake in Colorado-based Jetti Resources. Earlier this year, Jetti and the University of British Columbia (UBC) published the research that underpins Jetti’s technology in a paper in Acta Materialia.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve biomass—including selected trees and grasses—to be grown for biofuels by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Jeffrey Dangl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Katrien Devos, University of Georgia, Athens.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Joining Bridgestone, additional partners in the $35-million guayule climate-smart grant include the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, OpenET, Environmental Defense Fund, Tohono O’odham Nation and Colorado River Indian Tribes, and eight regional growers.

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MAY 15, 2017

in collaboration with scientists at the University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI); University of Colorado; and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, assessed 30 studies of vehicle emissions under real-world driving conditions in 11 major vehicle markets representing 80% of new diesel vehicle sales in 2015.

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OCTOBER 7, 2017

Earlier this month, GM outlined its electric path to zero emissions, and introduced SURUS—the Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS)—a fuel-cell-powered, four-wheel steer concept vehicle on a heavy-duty truck frame that’s driven by two electric motors. Earlier post.) Mobile and emergency backup power generation.

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

The global economic recession of 2008—which severely depressed light-duty vehicle sales—resulted in an increase in the age of the light-duty vehicle fleet in the US that likely slowed the rate of decrease of fleet average emissions, according to a study by Gary Bishop and Donald Stedman at the University of Denver. Technol. ,

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JULY 20, 2010

Sheehan has spent nearly two decades working on biofuels, including coordinating biofuel research at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and consulting to clients in biotechnology and renewable energy under the auspices of SheehanBoyce, LLC. an algae startup company in Menlo Park, Calif.

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JULY 17, 2014

Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Amy Brunner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Robin Buell, Michigan State University. Luca Comai, University of California, Davis. Michael Marks, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. John McKay, Colorado State University.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

One negative side effect of a lean burn engine, whether powered by gasoline or diesel fuel, is an increase in the amount of emissions released to the environment. In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale.

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JANUARY 4, 2020

The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit. University of New Mexico aims to develop advanced gas sensors (mixed potential electrochemical [MPE]) coupled with advanced computation (artificial neural networks).

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JULY 17, 2020

The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Marquette University. Washington State University. Colorado State University. Regents of University of Minnesota. Purdue University. Clemson University. Achates Power.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Researchers at Colorado State University have found that a microalgae biodiesel process using currently available technologies can show improvement in lifecycle GHG emissions and net energy ratio (NER) compared to soybean-based biodiesel. Microalgae biodiesel processing and lifecycle analysis model overview. —Batan et al.

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MAY 4, 2017

Shindell, professor of climate science at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, co-authored the paper with colleagues from the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C.;

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JULY 18, 2010

Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) modeled the emissions impact had plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) replaced light duty gasoline vehicles in the Denver, Colorado area in summer 2006. Brinkman et al. Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Michael P.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

This first-generation lithium battery has undergone more than three years of coordinated field testing in Japan, North America and Europe in a wide variety of climatic environments and driving conditions. Using approximately 150 conventional hybrids (mostly Prius), the field test vehicles logged well over a million combined miles.

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MAY 24, 2011

Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Methane is typically created in oxygen-deprived environments, such as flooded wetlands, peat bogs, rice paddies, landfills, termite colonies, and the digestive tracts of cows and other ruminant animals. White of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.; Masarie, P. Crotwell, and J.B.

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MAY 5, 2014

FRAPPÉ is a collaborative effort between the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, UC Berkeley, and other university collaborators, local projects and agencies including local school districts, NASA, NOAA, and NCAR.

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