Exhaust, Grant, Low Cost and Power

DOE issues FY 2015 SBIR/STTR Release 2 funding opportunity, including hydrogen fuel cells, electric drive batteries

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Also included are electric drive vehicle batteries, power electronics, on-board reformers, and advanced crank and ignition mechanisms for combustion engines. Phase I grants will be made during FY 2015 to small businesses with maximum award sizes of $150,000 or $225,000 depending on the topic.

2015

2015 Hydrogen Fuel Battery

Ascend Energy and Atrex Energy demo tubular SOFC electric ATV, fueled by natural gas

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MARCH 29, 2017

The project was supported by a $146,283 Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) from the California Energy Commission. idea Solutions Design, and JB Mechanical to integrate and install a commercial 1000 Watt Atrex Energy fuel cell power generator fueled with compressed natural gas in an all-electric Polaris Ranger ATV.

Gas-Electric

Gas-Electric Energy Gas Fuel

OptiFuel finalizing $2.6M DOE grant to demonstrate RNG hybrid line-haul locomotive

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JULY 24, 2020

OptiFuel Systems, a system integrator of Cummins and BAE Systems hybrid power products for decarbonizing the rail, marine, and microgrid power market, is in the process of finalizing a $2.6 million US Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) hybrid 4,300 hp line-haul locomotive.

Grant

Grant Hybrid Ozone EPA

Guerrilla charging: theft or public service?

Plugs and Cars

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Are you "stealing" power? And if I want to get nit-picky, I'd point out that the garage doesn't incur the expense for cleaning up after the electric car's leaking oil nor the electricity to power the fans to exhaust the exhaust. Do you plug in your Tesla (or Nissan LEAF or Chevy Volt)? Solar Dave thinks you are.

Charging

Charging Volt Plug-in Plug

32.5M hours of supercomputer time to aid GM, Ford engine projects with Oak Ridge Lab

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Some strategies to reduce emissions include running the engine highly dilute, with excess air or with recirculated exhaust gases as part of the combustion charge. ALCC grants one year awards. In 2013, 39 ALCC awards were granted, amounting to 1.8 This limits the practical range of operation in real-world applications.

Engine

Engine GM Ford 2014

ClearFlame Engine Technologies partners with Alto Ingredients to demo ethanol-fueled MCCI in heavy-duty diesels; high efficiency, low emissions

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MAY 18, 2021

Startup ClearFlame Engine Technologies announced a partnership with Alto Ingredients, a leading producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients, to conduct pilot demonstrations of ClearFlame’s solution for diesel engines using low-cost ethanol in Class 8 trucks. In fact, it increases power by 25%.

Diesel

Diesel Emissions Engine Fuel

Light-powered nano-bio hybrid organisms consume CO2, create plastics and fuels

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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. —Ding et al.

Light

Light CO2 Fuel Powered

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

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JULY 29, 2010

The most immediate, effective and low-cost way to reduce soot emissions is to put particle traps on vehicles, diesel trucks, buses, and construction equipment. Particle traps filter out soot particles from exhaust fumes. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power.

Global

Global Ozone CO2 Pollution

White House forms Climate Innovation Working Group; on the way to ARPA-C

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Direct air capture systems and retrofits to existing industrial and power plant exhausts to capture carbon dioxide and use it to make alternative products or permanently sequester it deep underground.

Climate

Climate Carbon Affordable Energy Storage

Achates Power building 2.7L opposed-piston light-duty engine; exceeding CAFE 2025, Tier 3 targets at lower cost

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JANUARY 13, 2017

Stemming from a major project partially funded with a $9-million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop an opposed-piston two-stroke gasoline compression ignition engine (OPGCI) ( earlier post ), Achates Power announced it is developing a 2.7-liter, The new Achates Power 2.7-liter

Light

Light Engine Powered Power

DOE to award up to $9M for Small Business programs in broad range of technologies including vehicles, biomass and hydrogen and fuel cells

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APRIL 10, 2012

Some specific improvements which are of interest, but are not limited to, include: new low-cost materials, improvements in manufacturing processes, speed or yield, improved cell/pack design minimizing inactive material, significant improvement in specific energy (Wh/kg) or energy density (Wh/L), and improved safety.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel Range Vehicles

Will an EV-Filled World Pass The Sulfuric Acid Test?

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Look at the periodic table, and think of the elements needed for a prosperous planet powered by renewable energy. By the 1950s, the world had exhausted the most easily available sulfur deposits. Mining costs skyrocketed, rapidly inflating the element’s market price. A lot of people, they take sulfur for granted.”

Renewable

Renewable Mercury Waste Lithium Ion

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. Though the PHEV combines the two types of energy and power, it is not merely a temporary “transition” between gasoline and diesel cars to pure electric cars. by Professor Andrew Alfonso Frank. It is much more than that.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”

Gas

Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

EV Driven

DOE issues FY 2015 SBIR/STTR Release 2 funding opportunity, including hydrogen fuel cells, electric drive batteries

Ascend Energy and Atrex Energy demo tubular SOFC electric ATV, fueled by natural gas

OptiFuel finalizing $2.6M DOE grant to demonstrate RNG hybrid line-haul locomotive

Guerrilla charging: theft or public service?

32.5M hours of supercomputer time to aid GM, Ford engine projects with Oak Ridge Lab

ClearFlame Engine Technologies partners with Alto Ingredients to demo ethanol-fueled MCCI in heavy-duty diesels; high efficiency, low emissions

Light-powered nano-bio hybrid organisms consume CO2, create plastics and fuels

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

White House forms Climate Innovation Working Group; on the way to ARPA-C

Achates Power building 2.7L opposed-piston light-duty engine; exceeding CAFE 2025, Tier 3 targets at lower cost

DOE to award up to $9M for Small Business programs in broad range of technologies including vehicles, biomass and hydrogen and fuel cells

Will an EV-Filled World Pass The Sulfuric Acid Test?

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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