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New diamine-appended MOFs can capture CO2 for half or less of the energy cost of current materials

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Because MOFs are solid, the process also saves the energy costs of heating the water in which amines are dissolved. Last summer, Long co-founded a startup, Mosaic Materials, to use the new technology to reduce the cost of chemical separations, with plans in the works for a pilot study of CO 2 separation from power plant emissions.

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DOE awards $4M to carbon capture and storage projects selected as part of ACT

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The ACT Initiative is a consortium of ten European countries—France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom—and the United States. Carbon Capture Projects: Lowering Absorption Process Uncertainty, Risks, and Costs by Predicting and Controlling Amine Degradation (LAUNCH).

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CMU/DAI study finds shutting down US nuclear plants would have significant negative economic and environmental consequences

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Shutting down reactors in high risk earthquake or tornado zones, or in areas with populations of more than 10 million would result in 24,728 MW lost capacity, an added annual cost of $ 4.7B, 166.73 Germany has decided to shutdown all nine of its nuclear power plants by 2022, and Switzerland will shutdown all five of its plants by 2032.

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NVIDIA deep learning software platform gets trio of big updates

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delivers accelerated training of deep neural networks, like University of Oxford’s VGG and Microsoft’s ResNet, which won the 2016 ImageNet challenge. They determine both the quality of the user experience and the cost of deploying the application.

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Why Is Facebook Getting Into Cryptocurrency?

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"They're pointing to a legitimate problem," says Lee Reiners , executive director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University. Lee Reiners, Duke University The coin at the heart of the proposal is controlled by a consortium of companies called the Diem (formerly Libra) Association , of which Facebook is a member. —Lee

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Cray unveils 100 petaflop XC30 supercomputer

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Several leading HPC centers have signed contracts to purchase Cray XC30 supercomputers, including: The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland. The Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. The Finnish IT Center for Science Ltd.

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VTT Launches European NEMO Project for Cellulosic Ethanol

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Total cost of the project will be €8.2 The NEMO project, which has received funding of €5.9 million (US$8.4 million) from the EU’s FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), is aimed at developing technologies to produce cellulosic ethanol from agricultural and forestry waste, such as straws and wood chips, via a fermentation pathway. million (US$11.7

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