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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include BASF and University of Georgia.

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Toyota To Place 10 Prius Plug-ins in SmartGridCity Project in 2010

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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA will place ten Prius plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHV) with Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colorado. The SmartGridCity project is the first fully functioning smart grid enabled city.

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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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Phinix,LLC; Rare Earth Element Separation Using Gas-Assisted Micro-Flow Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids Partners: NICHE Industrial Chemicals, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DOE share:$500,000; Cost share $225,000; Total costs: $725,000. Topic 2, Area of Interest 2: Conversion to Rare Earth Metals (RE-metals).

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DOE awards $20M to 10 hydrogen production and delivery technologies projects

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University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii will receive $3 million to develop photoelectrodes for direct solar water splitting. University of Colorado, Boulder of Boulder, Colorado will receive $2 million to develop a novel solar-thermal reactor to split water with concentrated sunlight. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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NREL develops novel method to produce renewable acrylonitrile; carbon fibers from renewable biomass

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Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their colleagues have devised a novel catalytic method to produce renewable acrylonitrile (ACN) using 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP), which can be biologically produced from sugars. Conceptual process diagram for renewable ACN production from biomass sugars.

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NREL dedicates 700 bar H2 refueling station; first in Colorado and national lab system

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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) chose National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day to hold the dedication ceremony for its 700 bar hydrogen fueling station, the first of its kind in Colorado and in the national lab system. The new HITRF station in Golden builds on that experience and expertise.

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CU-Boulder team develops more efficient isothermal solar-thermal water splitting technique for H2 production

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A University of Colorado Boulder team has developed a new solar-thermal water-splitting (STWS) system for the efficient production of hydrogen. —Alan Weimer, also the executive director of the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2). A paper on their work is published in the journal Science.

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