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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. University of Texas at Dallas. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. 2,417,938. .

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DOE launches Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative; awards $23.5M to 5 more manufacturing R&D projects

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Key elements of the initiative include: Increasing funding for clean energy manufacturing research and development that will accelerate US-based manufacturing of cost-competitive clean energy technologies, from wind, solar, and geothermal to batteries and biofuels. University of Texas at Austin. Lead organization. Description.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Composite body electric buses: Replace conventional diesel transit buses with 35-ft composite body electric transit buses.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Utility Global (Houston, Texas).

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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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Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Johnson Matthey will investigate the catalytic conversion of this microbial biodiesel into additional fuel molecules, most importantly jet fuel. Hydrogen-Dependent Conversion of Carbon Dioxide To Liquid Electrofuels By Extremely Thermophilic Archaea.

Carbon 249
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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators.

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760.

Carbon 218