Remove Corporation Remove Sodium Remove Water
article thumbnail

Hyundai Motor and Kia collaborate with Next Hydrogen to develop advanced alkaline water electrolysis system

Green Car Congress

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., Today it is expensive and time consuming to produce clean hydrogen.

Water 186
article thumbnail

American Process Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Michigan

Green Car Congress

In November 2008, API, in partnership with San Antonio’s Valero Energy Corporation, received $4 million from the COEE program to establish a pilot scale biorefinery at the Decorative Panels International hardwood plant in Alpena. The $4 million in COEE funding to API helped secure a US Department of Energy (DOE) grant for $17.9

Michigan 225
article thumbnail

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Green Car Congress

infiniRel Corporation is developing a health diagnostics and control system for solar plants, improving efficiency and profitability, and reducing operational risks by optimizing maintenance, improving output, and extending the life of critical assets with patented, predictive diagnostics.

Clean 371
article thumbnail

Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat

Green Car Congress

Salty soils are a major problem because if sodium starts to build up in the leaves it will affect important processes such as photosynthesis, which is critical to the plant’s success. The salt-tolerant gene (known as TmHKT1;5-A) works by excluding sodium from the leaves. Matthew Gilliham.

Sodium 199
article thumbnail

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

Green Car Congress

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The project will be implemented by a unique Texas not-for-profit corporation created to research, develop and implement smart grid clean energy systems. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Beacon Power Corporation (MA).

article thumbnail

PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

Green Car Congress

PARC was founded in 1970 at Xerox; in 2002, it was incorporated as a wholly owned independent research and development subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, providing services to external customers as well as to Xerox. PARC is developing a non-biological approach for producing liquid fuels from renewable energy, air, CO 2 and water.

Renewable 236
article thumbnail

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Of the lead recipients, 43% are small businesses, 35% are educational institutions, and 19% are large corporations. Water (1 project). Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Towards Scale Solar Conversion of CO 2 and Water Vapor to Hydrocarbon Fuels. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

Energy 231