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JANUARY 3, 2016

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. inerts, high moisture content waste) are sent to the landfill.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Notably, there are challenges associated with mining, processing and production of critical elements, which are often located in a handful of geopolitically sensitive regions. Hydrometallurgical Production of Domestic Metals for Energy Transition ($2,949,395). University of Nevada, Reno. Earlier post.)The Columbia University.

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APRIL 22, 2013

The pilot-scale biorefinery projects selected today will use a variety of non-food biomass feedstocks, waste-based materials, and algae in innovative conversion processes. The proposed biorefinery will integrate low-cost autotrophic algal production, accelerated lipid production, and lipid conversion. BioProcess Algae (up to $6.4

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

It is a widely-used solvent that dissolves other cleaning product additives, such as surfactants, polymers and fragrances, and acts as a viscosity-controlling agent. DuPont will produce the cellulosic ethanol at the company’s new biorefinery, currently under construction in Nevada, Iowa. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

On 27 June 2012, the Defense Production Act Title III Program published a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for an “Advanced Drop-in Biofuels Production Project.” Fulcrum BioEnergy: To build a 10-million gpy refinery in McCarran, Nevada. DPA has been re-authorized multiple times since then. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 22, 2012

The parameters are adjustable, providing flexibility in the desired output of C 5 and C 6 sugars and lignin to be used in the production of ethanol or chemicals. The process runs significantly faster than other enzymatic hydrolysis approaches, is acid-and alkali-free and has minimal byproducts, according to Beta Renewables. Earlier post.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected four new projects to receive up to $8.4

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Once fully operational, the project would be the first domestic facility to support production of anode copper foil and cathode active materials (CAM) in a fully closed-loop lithium-ion battery manufacturing process by recycling end-of-life battery and production scrap and remanufacturing that feedstock into critical materials.

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MARCH 28, 2016

with an $11-million loan guarantee through the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. The Novus plant will process agricultural waste into fuel, natural gas, organic fertilizer and other bio-based products. million gallons of advanced biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Greyrock Energy, a developer of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) process that produces synthetic diesel, will participate with Tsinghua University of Beijing, China and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of Reno, Nevada to quantify the positive impact on air quality from the use of synthetic diesel fuels as compared with petroleum derived diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Methods to hydrolyze cellulose and related carbohydrate materials for production of small molecules often require the use of harsh or expensive reagents such as strong acids or enzymes since cellulose is usually not soluble in conventional solvents and is also refractory to chemical or biological treatments. It was a real surprise.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Reformate enhances the energy content of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel; biofuels such as ethanol are fuel additives that are instead blended into a finished product to oxygenate fuel. It also expanded the program to include bio-based renewable chemicals and bio-based product manufacturing. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The first is terawatt-scale battery production. Gigafactory Nevada currently has a capacity of about 0.15 Baglino said that Tesla is starting to ramp up manufacturing of the new tabless cell at the company’s pilot 10 Gwh production facility in Fremont; it will take about a year to reach 10 GWh annualized rate. Cell factory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from chicken feather meal, made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste that accumulate annually in the United States alone. Schematic representation of biodiesel production from poultry waste.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Region States Feedstocks Potential production capacity Land use. Central East.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. In contrast, this reactor produces electricity as a byproduct of fuel production. remote oil wells burn natural gas as a by-product because it is not. electricity production (5 quadrillion. production. efficiency of the process.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. Roe-Hoan Yoon. Roe-Hoan Yoon.

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Teslarati

APRIL 13, 2022

A former Tesla research scientist will join Nevada-based American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), a critical minerals and lithium-ion battery recycling company, to spearhead an EV battery material recycling operation. He also worked for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection as a scientist in Water Quality Planning.

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MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. The end syngas product is very clean with zero sulfur content. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 22, 2016

.: Fulcrum plans to supply biocrude produced from municipal solid waste to Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC (TRMC) to process as a feedstock at its Martinez, California Refinery. Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Virent, Inc.: Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Although the United States has large reserves of lithium in all forms, in January 2022 the only operational US supply of lithium is a brine facility in Nevada using lithium evaporation ponds. The State should fund a health impact analysis (e.g., 3684) and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We are nearing the end of manufacturing validation at Kato: field quality and yield are at viable levels and our focus is now on improving the 10% of manufacturing processes that currently bottleneck production output. While substantial progress has been made, we still have work ahead of us before we can achieve volume production.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Because oil and gas development, carbon capture and storage, and geothermal energy production each involve net fluid injection or withdrawal, all have at least the potential to induce earthquakes that could be felt by people. —“Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies”.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PM emissions from current vehicles in Beijing could be reduced by approximately 19% by simply blending 20% synthetic diesel with currently available diesel, according to a new study by Tsinghua University, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and Greyrock Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

recently held an open house at its first AquaRefinery at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in McCarran, Nevada. The AquaRefining technology extracts lead from LABs with a room temperature, closed-loop, water-based process that results in significant reductions of hazardous waste and direct human contact with the lead itself.

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Teslarati

MAY 21, 2024

Last week, Tesla celebrated reaching a production milestone of three million electric vehicles (EVs) built by its Fremont and Nevada factories , a little under two years after the plant surpassed two million EVs produced. Tesla Semi exec shares key program and Nevada factory details What are your thoughts?

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2024

According to Redwood Material’s website, the main problem it is trying to solve is: “Consumer devices contribute to the world’s fastest growing waste stream. Very few of these products are recycled responsibly.” Redwood Materials has been making significant strides this year, transitioning from recycling to ramping up production.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, Nevada: $3,000,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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MAY 6, 2021

Rivian R1T deliveries are only a few weeks away, and the EV maker isn’t wasting any time preparing for it. Rivian is actively recruiting Field Specialists in the following states: Ohio, Texas, Nevada, California, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Florida, Utah, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Colorado.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Graphjet plans to build a facility in Nevada and is talking to the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense. An alternative energy startup in Malaysia is ready to help electric-vehicle makers source a key ingredient outside of China — using agriculture waste to create graphite. million metric tons by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The program plans to provide $30 million to support 14 project teams in developing innovative, ultra-high-performance air-cooled heat exchangers, supplemental cooling systems and/or cool-storage systems that can cost-effectively and efficiently reject waste heat. Colorado State University. University of Maryland. polypropylene).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Starting in 2024, Aqua Metals will deliver sustainably recycled battery materials from its Sierra ARC facility in Reno, Nevada, which 6K Energy will use to manufacture cathode active material (CAM) at its PlusCAM facility in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Drought conditions have intensified in Nevada and Utah, and Arizona is facing a similar problem to California-it’s growing thirstier by the day. Importantly, this means there is no need for deep well waste water injections, evaporation ponds and other recognized methods for disposing of concentrated brine waste from desalination activities.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Tesla is planning to ramp up Tesla Semi deliveries to PepsiCo, its main customer, ahead of the electric semi truck’s volume production. It was first unveiled in 2017 and it was supposed to come to production in 2019. Instead, it came to production in late 2022 and it has been in extremely limited production since.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Fission waste by-products need to be disposed of safely, and they remain radioactive for thousands of years. Fission reactors are being considered as an alternative—NASA successfully tested the Kilopower fission reactor at the Nevada National Security Site in 2018 using a uranium-235 core about the size of a paper towel roll.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled.

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