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DECEMBER 23, 2012

The Colorado River Basin encompasses much of the American West, covering parts of seven US states and two states in Mexico. It may not sound like a phenomenally large amount except the water and the river is already over-allocated. Population growth in the Southwest is putting added pressure on regional water resources.

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JULY 20, 2009

Colorado River Basin including major dams. Inset (a) shows water demand and losses and supply. All reservoirs along the Colorado River might dry up by mid-century as the West warms, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Source: AGU. Click to enlarge. Rajagopalan et al.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

A Colorado State University professor is developing an anaerobic digester that turns animal waste into methane using much less water than conventional technology, making it more economically feasible and easier for use by feedlots and dairies in Western states. Sybil Sharvelle. based Stewart Environmental Consultants Inc.

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APRIL 25, 2011

The US Department of the Interior released a report that assesses climate change risks and how these risks could impact water operations, hydropower, flood control, and fish and wildlife in the western United States. Click to enlarge. —Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. —Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor. million homes.

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MARCH 23, 2021

million to 16 water infrastructure projects. Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and aerosols alone (black); (ii) that obtained including the stratospheric water decline after 2000 (red); and (iii) including both the stratospheric water vapor decline after 2000 and the increase in the 1980s and 1990s (cyan). Stratospheric water vapor and radiative processes.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We are not trying to treat the entire hydrocarbon [oil] content in the water—to turn it into carbon dioxide and water—but we are converting it into a form that can be retained by sand filtration, which is a conventional and economical process. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Eaton will leverage its Corporate Research Labs in Golden, Colorado and Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Southfield, Michigan to produce the technology, using advanced power electronics and 3D-printing. —Karl Sievertsen, vice president and chief technology officer, Eaton’s Vehicle Group.

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OCTOBER 11, 2013

Applications include powering the Colorado pickup truck and Trailblazer SUV for the Thailand and Southeast Asian markets. Water-cooled turbo. The improved variable-geometry turbo incorporates a water-cooling system in the turbine housing to reduce heat when operating at high speeds and full load. liter variants. Turbo (2.8L).

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AUGUST 30, 2016

General Motors and the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) will reveal a Chevrolet Colorado-based fuel cell electric vehicle in October at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington, D.C. The Army intends to conduct user assessments and demonstrations in 2017.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the fourth and fifth cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.) DOE Marine and Hydrokinetic Technologies listing.

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JUNE 17, 2014

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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AUGUST 15, 2009

Northern India, probably the most heavily irrigated region in the world, is rapidly depleting its groundwater, according to a new study by researchers from the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (CSIR), India; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. Tiwari et al. Tiwari et al.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Rivers in some of the world’s most populous regions are losing water, according to a comprehensive study of global stream flows. suggests that the reduced flows in many cases are associated with climate change, and could potentially threaten future supplies of food and water. Cliff Jacobs of NSF’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Engineering Center (TARDEC) are modifying a Chevrolet Colorado midsize pickup truck to run on a commercial hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system and will expose the truck to the extremes of daily military use for 12 months. What’s more, fuel cells generate water as a by-product, something extremely valuable in austere environments.

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APRIL 8, 2009

The foreground bar height indicates the EWe of each state, with the portion of ground and surface water indicated by color. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The surfactant chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. —Thurman et al.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Researchers at Colorado State University have shown that under relatively mild conditions (?140 Converting cellulosic biomass in ionic liquids is an alternative to enzymatic and chemical hydrolysis under typically heterogeneous conditions, or the hydrolysis in hot-compressed water under hydrothermal (high temperature and pressure) conditions.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Colorado School of Mines is also a sub-awardee on the project, and will be leading a novel effort to utilize Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing (DFOS) to monitor fracture processes and chemical reactions in the subsurface during operations of Electrical Reservoir Stimulation. —Paris Smalls, CEO and co-founder of Eden.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Starfire Energy, a Colorado-based developer of modular chemical plants for the carbon-free production of ammonia and hydrogen, has closed a major funding round. Starfire Energy’s Rapid Ramp NH 3 ammonia synthesis technology produces zero carbon ammonia using only renewable energy, air, and water as inputs.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions. University of Wyoming; Generation of Rare Earth Metals from Rare Earth Oxides by Using Microwave Plasma Partners: Colorado School of Mines, Ames Laboratory, Eutectix, Rare Element Resources DOE share: $500,000; Cost share: $125,500; Total costs: $625,500.

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MAY 22, 2011

Sixty-five teams from 24 Colorado schools participated in the Junior Solar Sprint and Hydrogen Fuel Cell car competitions hosted by the YS Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The student teams raced solar or hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles they designed and built themselves.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing new computational tools and models to better understand and manage the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. Other partners include the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Research Computing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Credit: Heinz et al.

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MARCH 27, 2011

Placed in a single gallon of water in a bright sunlight, the device could produce enough electricity to supply a house in a developing country with electricity for a day, Nocera said. The first artificial leaf was developed more than a decade ago by John Turner of the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently launched the first test rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprising nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). They found that the pressure exponent for ALICE was 0.73, which is approximately a factor of two larger than Al/water mixtures.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

On the road from NorCal to Colorado, there is a lot of nature one can experience, from national parks, to lakes, to breathtaking mountain towns. Features such as a hot-water shower and interior climate controls provide comfort. Being able to have a place to nap, prepare food, store gear, and hang out would have made a huge difference.

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The advancement could significantly boost the production of hydrogen from sunlight by using the cell to split water at a higher efficiency and lower cost than current photoelectrochemical approaches. The research is outlined in a paper in Nature Energy. Beard and other NREL scientists in 2011 published a paper in Science that.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Researchers at Colorado State University report using a tandem process to upgrade biomass furaldehydes into oxygenated diesel and high-quality C 10–12 linear alkane fuels. A paper on their work is published in the journal ChemSusChem. and Chen, E.

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AUGUST 18, 2013

The heat softens the bitumen and the water dilutes and separates the bitumen from the sand. As heat softens the bitumen and water dilutes and separates the bitumen from the sand, the pressure creates cracks and openings through which the bitumen can flow back into the steam-injector wells. Source: CNRL. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 12, 2020

The BLM also conducted government-to-government consultations over several months, traveling to and meeting with the following Tribes: Moapa Band of Paiutes, Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, Fort Mojave Tribe, Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians, Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Bishop Paiute Tribe, Colorado River Indian Tribes and the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35-million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule ( earlier post ) to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber industry and offer a solution for growers amid the ongoing water crisis in the Southwestern US.

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JUNE 29, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects in four states—California, Colorado, Florida, and New York—to receive nearly $7.5 Boulder Wind Power (Boulder, Colorado) will test an innovative permanent magnet-based direct-drive generator to validate performance and reliability of a large utility-scale turbine.

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JUNE 5, 2010

For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. With little more than water and carbon dioxide, algae can harvest sunlight and turn it into energy that could eventually be used to create jet fuel. —

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MARCH 1, 2009

Mountain snowpack in the Great basin and major water supply basins for California. Despite the recent rain and snow ,” the governor’s office warned, “ cumulative water deficit is so large that there is only a 15% chance that California will replenish its water supply this year. ”. Source: USDA. Click to enlarge.

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