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Resource report concludes Galvanic’s lithium prospect among most prolific in North America

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JULY 13, 2022

A recently completed resource report has validated Galvanic Energy’s Smackover prospect as one of the largest lithium brine resources in North America, with sufficient lithium to produce enough batteries for 50 million electric vehicles. An independent evaluation and technical report authored by APEX Geoscience Ltd.

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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

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APRIL 18, 2023

Chevron USA kicked off a road trip across the US Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50% renewable content. During the tour, Chevron representatives will talk with members of the public about the benefits of lower carbon fuels such as biofuels and renewable gasoline blend.

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Chevron Gasoline Renewable Toyota

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill. Frontier Energy, Inc.,

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Texas Hydrogen Renewable Austin

DeepGreen Metals revises undersea polymetallic nodules resources upwards

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JANUARY 31, 2021

DeepGreen Metals, which is exploring for deep-ocean polymetallic nodules as a lower impact and more cost-effective alternative to land-based mining ( earlier post ), announced an upward revision to the nodule resource reported within the NORI-D exploration contract area held by its subsidiary, Nauru Ocean Resources, Inc.

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Nauru Waste Mercury Batteries

ENGIE greenlights Australian renewable hydrogen project with Yara

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

ENGIE has taken the Final Investment Decision in the development of one of the world’s first industrial-scale renewable hydrogen projects, to be located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Yuri roadmap. As announced in 2021, the Yuri project is being developed with the support of a $47.5-million

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Renewable Hydrogen Australia Grant

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Meanwhile, wet waste feedstocks, such as animal manure and fats, oils, and greases (FOG), represent another important category of resources that could be utilized to produce MCCI bioblendstocks due to its abundant availability. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. Skaggs et al. demand in 2016. —Ou et al. 1c06561.

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Waste Diesel Renewable Convert

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

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JULY 30, 2020

A new study of the impact of high EV adoption on the Western US power grid by a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found that 2028 grid resource adequacy—from generation through transmission—is likely to be sufficient for high EV penetration. million for the WECC.

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Grid Charging Power Grid California

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.

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Renewable Economy Hydrogen Water

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewable hydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g., The UK has awarded £7.5

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Wind Hydrogen Renewable Low Cost

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

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JANUARY 17, 2022

bp and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman signed a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development of a multiple gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen development in Oman by 2030.

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Oman Renewable Hydrogen Energy

IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, because sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store energy in an accessible and efficient way is crucial. Dabek, P.B., Brandão, R., Patro, E.R., Leal Filho, W., van Ruijven, B.,

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Energy Storage Energy Renewable Store

UC Irvine analysis finds renewable hydrogen sector could reach price parity with conventional fuel by mid- to late 2020s

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JUNE 6, 2020

The California Energy Commission has released a UC Irvine roadmap for the buildout and deployment of renewable hydrogen production plants in California to support policy decisions and inform stakeholders. The roadmap effort developed several scenarios for the growth in renewable hydrogen demand through 2050.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Renewable Price Fuel

Prometheus CEO outlines tech advances that could make CO2-to-fuels renewable gasoline and jet price-competitive with fossil fuels

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JANUARY 30, 2020

In a commentary in the journal Joule , Rob McGinnis, founder and and CEO of Prometheus , a company that is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into fuels, discusses the technology advances that could lead to the potential price-competitiveness of renewable gasoline and jet with fossil fuels. 2020.01.002.

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Gasoline Renewable Fuel Price

Trade associations: renewable natural gas accounted for 64% of on-road NGV fuel use in 2021

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MAY 4, 2022

The trade associations Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) announced that 64% of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in the US in calendar year 2021 was renewable natural gas (RNG). Of that, 390 million gallons (GGE) were from renewable source (64%).

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Renewable Gas Fuel Carbon

Sandia team develops gasoline-like fuel blend with high renewable content that simultaneously increases ?-sensitivity, RON, and octane sensitivity

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

High-performance renewable fuels (HPFs) are an alternative to conventional petroleum fuels that could greatly reduce the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines. Dec (2021) “Experimental Evaluation of a Gasoline-like Fuel Blend with High Renewable Content to Simultaneously Increase ?-Sensitivity, Background. 1c01979.

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Gasoline Renewable Fuel 2019

Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The ultimate aim would be to capture wasted CO 2 using renewable hydrogen gas from biohydrogen—as in this research—or electrolysis powered by renewable electricity, and convert it to formic acid. That could have been accomplished by an enzyme “such as the one we found in E. We wanted to try this in the lab.”. 00299-21.

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Renewable Engine CO2 Fuel

Neste investing €1.9B to expand renewable products refinery in Rotterdam; 1.2 Mtpa of SAF

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JUNE 28, 2022

Neste Corporation has made the final investment decision to invest into new renewable products production capacity in Rotterdam. The decision is based on demand for renewable products growing substantially with customers’ higher climate ambitions. million ton capacity for renewable products in Rotterdam is the largest in Europe.

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Renewable Production Finland Polymer

GM to source US-based lithium for future EV batteries from CTR; closed-loop, direct-extraction process

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JULY 2, 2021

General Motors has agreed to form a strategic investment and commercial collaboration with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to secure sustainably produced lithium from the CTR’s Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power development, located in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field in California.

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GM Future Batteries Battery

GM and Shell to offer renewable energy solutions to US homeowners, EV owners and suppliers; Texas first

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JUNE 24, 2021

General Motors and Shell, through its wholly owned subsidiary MP2 Energy, LLC, are collaborating to provide comprehensive energy solutions programs to GM’s customers and supply chain partners, including fixed-rate home energy plans backed by 100% renewable energy resources. of EV charging. of EV charging.

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GM Texas Renewable Energy

Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

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JUNE 1, 2023

Today’s fleet of storage resources can capture enough electricity to power up to 5 million California homes. This amount remains unchanged from 2020 despite the jump in renewables due to drought-related declines in hydroelectric generation. By 2045, capacity is projected to increase another 10 times to 52,000 MW. compared to 2020.

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California 2019 Grid 2002

Nacero awards 20-year wind power purchase agreement to NextEra for natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Texas-based Nacero, a company seeking to produce low- and zero-lifecycle carbon footprint gasoline blendstock ( earlier post ) has awarded a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC a 20-year power purchase agreement to supply wind power to Nacero’s planned flagship manufacturing facility in Penwell, Texas. Renewable power procurement.

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Wind Texas Gasoline Purchase

Virtual Peaker partners with Fermata Energy to bring V2G bi-directional vehicle charging technology to utilities

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The joint venture will make it easier for utilities and their customers to combat climate change by seamlessly managing two-way access to the grid for electric vehicles (EVs), maximizing the use of renewable energy sources, and reducing grid operating costs.

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Energy Charging Grid Climate Change

Max-Planck-Institut team uses ammonia for direct reduction for more sustainable steel production

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APRIL 2, 2023

a) Comparison of the predicted costs required for hydrogen and ammonia produced by renewable electricity in 2030, assuming that it is produced in Australia and then transported to Japan (reproduced based on data from the International Energy Agency). Resources Ma, Y., —Ma et al. Jovičević-Klug, M., Rohwerder, M.,

Production

Production Hydrogen Renewable Australia

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cemvita defines Gold Hydrogen as the biological production of hydrogen in the subsurface through the consumption of trapped or abandoned resources. Traditional methods of producing hydrogen without greenhouse gas emissions (green hydrogen) include electrolysis powered by renewable sources such as wind, solar, or hydro. billion in 2020.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Production Oil Renewable

US FWS lists Tiehm’s buckwheat as an endangered species; balancing resource extraction with survival of rare plants

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Lithium is an important part of our renewable energy transition, but it can’t come at the cost of extinction. Balancing resource extraction with survival of rare plants. The Tiehm’s buckwheat situation highlights the larger issue of the extraction of natural resources vs. localized environmental protection in the US SouthWest.

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Colorado Nevada Energy 2020

NuScale, Shell and partners to assess hydrogen production using SMR

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

NuScale’s flexible SMR technology holds the potential—through hydrogen production—to balance and stabilize power grids dominated by renewable energies. Energy markets present reliability concerns at times when energy demand is high and renewable energy production is low.

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Hydrogen Production Idaho Utah

Vulcan to collaborate with DuPont on Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources will collaborate with DuPont Water Solutions,a leader in water filtration and purification, to test and to scale up Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) solutions for Vulcan’s Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process. Earlier post.). Francis Wedin, Managing Director. Stringfellow and Patrick F.

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Carbon Water Germany Renewable

NREL: Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating PV

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to produce a significant portion of the electricity generated annually across the globe, according to an analysis by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This is really optimistic.

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Solar Portugal Renewable Hybrid

First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany

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JULY 17, 2020

EIT InnoEnergy, the European innovation engine for sustainable energy, announced a partnership with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited (Vulcan), a start-up lithium exploration company, to produce the world’s first completely carbon-neutral lithium in Germany. The region contains Europe’s largest lithium resource and one of the largest worldwide.

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Germany Carbon Lithium Ion Europe

Vulcan secures site for its planned commercial lithium hydroxide plant

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources signed an agreement with chemical park management company Infraserv to secure a site for its planned Central Lithium Plant (CLP) of its Zero Carbon Lithium Project, at the Ho?chst chst Chemical Park (Industriepark Ho?chst), chst), located just outside of Frankfurt.

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Commercial Carbon Transportation Germany

Gold Hydrogen Program coalition launches program for subsurface biomanufacturing of hydrogen

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Gold Hydrogen Program , a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process. Found naturally deep in the Earth, “gold hydrogen” is a resource that is produced biologically and in the subsurface.

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Hydrogen Cleaning Clean Houston

Renewable natural gas from food waste offers negative carbon intensity as LCFS pathway: -80 gCO2e/MJ

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MARCH 9, 2021

South San Francisco Scavenger Company (SSFSC) has submitted an application to the California Air Resources Board (ARB) seeking certification of Tier 2 pathways for biomethane (Bio-CNG) from anaerobic digestion (AD) of food waste and urban landscaping waste at their facility in South San Francisco, California. gCO 2 e/MJ and 0.28

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Waste San Francisco Carbon Gas

NREL researchers evaluating blockchain for transactive energy applications

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MAY 15, 2020

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the use of blockchain for transactive energy using hardware in the laboratory’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). Traditionally, integrating new resources into the grid comes at a substantial cost for a utility. Every feeder is different.

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Energy Grid Power Grid Solar

Canada launches $1.5B Clean Fuels Fund with call for proposals

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JUNE 22, 2021

Minister of Natural Resources, made the announcement during the World Hydrogen Technologies Convention hosted by the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association and supported by the International Association for Hydrogen Energy. Canada has launched the $1.5-billion Seamus O’Regan Jr.,

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Canada Cleaning Clean Fuel

NREL scientists advance solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production

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MAY 6, 2022

Perovskite materials may hold the potential to play an important role in a process to produce hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to an analysis from scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). —Zhiwen Ma, a senior engineer at NREL. His co-authors, all from NREL, are Patrick Davenport and Genevieve Saur.

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Solar Hydrogen Production Renewable

Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor for mid-sized nuclear technology

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MAY 6, 2023

Flexible performance provides a proven capability to stabilize modern renewable heavy electric grids, including fast load change capabilities to support variations in demand. Its fast load-follow capabilities make it ideally suited for integration with renewable resources.

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Idaho Hydrogen Clean Cleaning

Aalborg U study finds biogas and biomethane reduce dry biomass consumption by up to 16%

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APRIL 6, 2020

This paper analyses the role of biogas and biogas-derived fuels in a 100% renewable energy system for Denmark using the energy system analysis tool EnergyPLAN. It is a limited resource dependent on the structure of the agricultural sector, but it can supplement other renewable energy sources. 2020.117426.

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Denmark Renewable Fuel Energy

DOE report highlights opportunities of hybrid energy systems

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APRIL 30, 2021

As defined for the report, HES are related to, but distinct from, colocated resources, which share some characteristics with HES but have more limited opportunities for operational synergies. Hybridization can also help mitigate financial penalties for variable resources (e.g., Dimensions that define HES. Source: DOE.

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Energy Hybrid Grid Idaho

Researchers and industry present interim results of the MethanQuest project

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MARCH 21, 2021

The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector have come together to work on processes for producing hydrogen and methane from renewables and for using them to achieve climate-neutral mobility and power generation.

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Industrial Industry Hydrogen Gas-Electric

Argonne helps optimize piston bowl design for Caterpillar heavy-duty engines using high-performance computing

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MAY 4, 2021

Taking advantage of Argonne’s high-performance computing resources, researchers developed a potential piston design for Caterpillar’s engines that could improve fuel efficiency while reducing emissions. Argonne researchers used supercomputers to optimize the design of piston bowls in heavy-duty engines for Caterpillar Inc.

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Design Engine Diesel Fuel

CSIRO team optimistic about use of nitrogenase in applications such as green ammonia production for carrying H2

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JULY 27, 2020

To export hydrogen from regions with high renewable energy intensity to those lean in renewable energy requires hydrogen to be in a form that is transportable. … While one alternative is using green hydrogen produced by renewable power as input to the H-B process, this pathway has several disadvantages, according to the authors.

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Green Production Hydrogen Renewable

California Energy Commission awards $7.8M to two lithium recovery projects; “Lithium Valley”

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MAY 14, 2020

The Salton Sea Known Geothermal Area contains an estimated six million tons of recoverable lithium within presently available geothermal resources. In recent years the global demand for lithium has increased significantly as clean energy resources rapidly replace fossil fuels in the transportation, building, and energy sectors.

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California Energy Clean Cleaning

PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

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MAY 17, 2020

Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.]. Depletion of metal resources [kg iron-eq.]. Primary energy, non-renewable [Megajoule]. Primary energy, renewable [Megajoule]. 2020) Submitted to Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. Smog formation [kg NMVOC-eq.].

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Mariner Climate Change DC Cars

Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

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APRIL 26, 2021

In China, the company has been introducing EV models while utilizing local resources; Honda will further accelerate this approach from here forward. Honda will also further pursue the utilization of local resources, which includes strengthening our collaboration with CATL for the supply of batteries.

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Honda America Sale North America

Resource report concludes Galvanic’s lithium prospect among most prolific in North America

Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

H2@Scale project launched in Texas; renewable hydrogen for multiple end-use applications

DeepGreen Metals revises undersea polymetallic nodules resources upwards

ENGIE greenlights Australian renewable hydrogen project with Yara

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

PNNL study finds 2028 grid resource adequacy likely sufficient for high EV penetration; managed charging strategies can double adequacy

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

Gigastack renewable hydrogen from offshore wind project advances to next phase; 100MW electrolyzer system

bp and Oman form strategic partnership to progress significant renewable energy and hydrogen development

IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

UC Irvine analysis finds renewable hydrogen sector could reach price parity with conventional fuel by mid- to late 2020s

Prometheus CEO outlines tech advances that could make CO2-to-fuels renewable gasoline and jet price-competitive with fossil fuels

Trade associations: renewable natural gas accounted for 64% of on-road NGV fuel use in 2021

Sandia team develops gasoline-like fuel blend with high renewable content that simultaneously increases ?-sensitivity, RON, and octane sensitivity

Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

Neste investing €1.9B to expand renewable products refinery in Rotterdam; 1.2 Mtpa of SAF

GM to source US-based lithium for future EV batteries from CTR; closed-loop, direct-extraction process

GM and Shell to offer renewable energy solutions to US homeowners, EV owners and suppliers; Texas first

Cal ISO: California grid battery storage increased nearly 20x since 2019 to 5,000MW; projected to hit 52,000 MW by 2045

Nacero awards 20-year wind power purchase agreement to NextEra for natural gas-to-gasoline plant in Texas

Virtual Peaker partners with Fermata Energy to bring V2G bi-directional vehicle charging technology to utilities

Max-Planck-Institut team uses ammonia for direct reduction for more sustainable steel production

Cemvita demonstrates “gold hydrogen” production in situ, sets up subsidiary

US FWS lists Tiehm’s buckwheat as an endangered species; balancing resource extraction with survival of rare plants

NuScale, Shell and partners to assess hydrogen production using SMR

Vulcan to collaborate with DuPont on Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process

NREL: Untapped potential exists for blending hydropower, floating PV

First carbon-neutral lithium extraction project to start in Germany

Vulcan secures site for its planned commercial lithium hydroxide plant

Gold Hydrogen Program coalition launches program for subsurface biomanufacturing of hydrogen

Renewable natural gas from food waste offers negative carbon intensity as LCFS pathway: -80 gCO2e/MJ

NREL researchers evaluating blockchain for transactive energy applications

Canada launches $1.5B Clean Fuels Fund with call for proposals

NREL scientists advance solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production

Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor for mid-sized nuclear technology

Aalborg U study finds biogas and biomethane reduce dry biomass consumption by up to 16%

DOE report highlights opportunities of hybrid energy systems

Researchers and industry present interim results of the MethanQuest project

Argonne helps optimize piston bowl design for Caterpillar heavy-duty engines using high-performance computing

CSIRO team optimistic about use of nitrogenase in applications such as green ammonia production for carrying H2

California Energy Commission awards $7.8M to two lithium recovery projects; “Lithium Valley”

PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

Honda targeting 100% BEV & FCEV sales in N America by 2040; new e:Architecture EVs coming in second half of this decade

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