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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,499,987. DOE Funding: $1,500,000. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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NYC to use REG renewable diesel in more than 1,000 city vehicles, including many sanitation trucks

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REG utilizes Bio-Synfining technology developed and patented by its Synthetic Fuels Division in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The City also uses solar and wind energy to power government buildings and vehicles. Increased cetane aids self-ignition of fuel and allows for easier starting, smoother running engines and reliable operation.

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

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Sun Catalytix Corporation will develop a unique technology to split water into hydrogen and oxygen under benign conditions to enable storage of intermittent renewable solar and wind energy for around-the-clock use. Breakthrough High Efficiency Shrouded Wind Turbine. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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

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Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Dry Surface Technologies (Guthrie, Oklahoma). Julia Computing, Inc. IP Group, Inc.

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The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

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Parts of Oklahoma are hard hit by drought. Let me put it this way: the ‘permanent’ desalination plants are discharging 50-65% of what’s rejected in the process in the form of a waste stream of highly concentrated brine liquid-directly into the oceans. What it means immediately is higher food prices across the US. per barrel.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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