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offering nearly 112,800 acres offshore Virginia for commercial wind energy leasing. Under the terms of the Final Sale Notice, the wind energy area offshore Virginia will be auctioned as a single lease. nautical miles from the Virginia Beach coastline and has the potential to support more than 2,000 megawatts of wind generation.

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MAY 8, 2014

The Energy Department selected three offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative, grid-connected systems in federal and state waters by 2017. The projects are located off the coasts of New Jersey, Oregon, and Virginia.

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JULY 15, 2011

However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. Because of the same input and output in all cases, an increase in energy conversion efficiency nearly equals impact reductions in carbon and water footprints on the environment. Transportation and distribution of the sugar/water slurry or sugar slurry could easily use available infrastructure.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While technologies such as building automation systems, solar hot water heaters and infrared heaters helped drive NRV’s energy reductions, many of the energy-saving ideas have come from employees. The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. 0.4 ± 0.05. 1.8 ± 0.58. 3.3 ± 0.86.

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Drinking water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally , according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Environmental Engineering Science , the team reports that the process successfully cleaned clean coal mine drainage while producing rare-earth elements in samples from various rivers across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Coal mine drainage (CMD) impairs tens of thousands of kilometers of U.S.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

In some cases the water is evaporated to stabilize the deposits before they are recovered in surface reclamation; in others, the waste coal is not recovered for a variety of technological, operational, market, or other reasons. Virginia Tech subsequently sublicensed the technology to Decanter Machine Inc., of Johnson City, Tenn.,

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Other benefits include the ability to lower plant water usage, reduce overall energy consumption, and drop GHG emissions to levels required for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Advanced Biofuel category.

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JUNE 17, 2014

University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii will receive $3 million to develop photoelectrodes for direct solar water splitting. University of Colorado, Boulder of Boulder, Colorado will receive $2 million to develop a novel solar-thermal reactor to split water with concentrated sunlight. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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MAY 9, 2018

Researchers from Virginia Tech developed an in vitro artificial enzymatic pathway that can produce hydrogen at extremely high rates by splitting water energized by carbohydrates (e.g., It is highly expected that green, cost-competitive, distributed H 2 will be produced via water splitting powered by solar energy directly or indirectly.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway. Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water.

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MAY 15, 2015

will pay a $68-million criminal fine and a total $24 million community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for the benefit of the riparian environment and ecosystems of North Carolina and Virginia.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions. Phinix,LLC; Rare Earth Element Separation Using Gas-Assisted Micro-Flow Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids Partners: NICHE Industrial Chemicals, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DOE share:$500,000; Cost share $225,000; Total costs: $725,000.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

MNES), and Virginia Electric and Power Company have reached an agreement to continue pre-construction, engineering, and planning work in preparation for a third unit at Dominion’s North Anna Nuclear Power Plant in central Virginia. Dominion and its sister companies currently operate seven pressurized water reactors (PWR).

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APRIL 22, 2011

The facility was permitted by the State of West Virginia’s DEP based on PRENFLO PDQ gasification technology provided by Uhde, a wholly owned company of the ThyssenKrupp Group. The conversion of methanol to hydrocarbons and water is virtually complete, Uhde says, and essentially stoichiometric in the process. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 7, 2012

The Utica Shale assessment covered areas in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of onshore lands and offshore state waters. Click to enlarge. Kirschbaum, M.A., Schenk, C.J.,

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JANUARY 25, 2010

> Assumptions about water use. The study assumes fresh water and non-potable salt water are equal. A sustainable industrial algae production model uses non-potable, non-agricultural water in the process of making liquid fuels. Assumptions about nutrient use.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The bottom, sides, and surface of rivers and tidal channels confine water flow, which significantly alters the operation of river and tidal turbines. University of Virginia. The design is scalable from a community size (kW) to utility level (multi-MW), making HydroMINE immediately commercially relevant. University of Washington.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary the focus is on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf. Later this year, researchers will measure oxygen levels in both bodies of water. The forecast predicts a mid­summer low­-oxygen hypoxic zone of 1.97 cubic miles.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Energy-Relevant Elements Recovery from CO 2 -Reactive Minerals During Carbon Mineralization. Feedstocks will include Li/Ni/Ca/Mg-rich igneous and sedimentary minerals. 2,200,000).

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AUGUST 22, 2009

NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. million (DOE share: $6.9

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JULY 21, 2020

Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Gigawatt-Scale Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts and Electrodes. University of Virginia. Specific selections are: H2@Scale New Markets Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002229. Project title. Federal share. 3M Company. Giner ELX Inc.

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MAY 31, 2012

one of the largest US-based, publicly-traded water utilities, is going to transition portions of its larger vehicle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG). Aqua America serves almost 3 million residents in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia. Aqua America, Inc.,

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APRIL 6, 2012

Surfactants produce bubbles, similar to soap in water, which raise the viscosity of a fluid, in this case CO 2. The NETL-RUA research team has evaluated CO 2 flows with surfactants that can increase the efficiency and efficacy of EOR with CO 2. Injected CO 2 with a higher viscosity will improve “sweep efficiency”—i.e.,

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has completed its submittal of the design certification document for the Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor ( ESBWR ) to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)—a key milestone in deploying the new advanced nuclear reactor design. Earlier post.).

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MAY 24, 2018

The technology of hydrogen production through conventional water electrolysis is well-established; high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) adds in some of the energy needed to split the water as heat instead of electricity (by using steam instead of liquid water), thus reducing the overall energy required.

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JANUARY 21, 2012

These new wave and tidal resource assessments, combined with ongoing analyses of the technologies and other resource assessments, show that water power, including conventional hydropower and wave, tidal, and other water power resources, can potentially provide 15% of our nation’s electricity by 2030.

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MAY 23, 2012

Some 29% of all historic seagrass meadows have been destroyed, mainly due to dredging and degradation of water quality. —co-author Karen McGlathery, a scientist at the University of Virginia and NSF’s Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site. Seagrasses are also among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. At least 1.5%

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AUGUST 19, 2009

The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly one-third of all Americans. 4,674,000 to Virginia. 1,643,000 to West Virginia. $ 607,000 to Washington, DC.

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JULY 14, 2022

The United States depends on other countries for nearly all its lithium supply and mining the mineral strains water resources and can harm the environment. University of Virginia – Team TELEPORT: “Targeted Extraction of Lithium with Electroactive Particles for Recovery Technology (TELEPORT)”.

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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Paul Ziemkiewicz, director of the West Virginia Water Research Institute and principal investigator on the project, is an expert in acid mine drainage.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

West Virginia University, and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are collaborating in the $13 million field trial, located in Marshall County, W.Va. These wells have been producing coalbed methane and water since 2004. Monitoring the quality of groundwater and stream water. CONSOL Energy Inc.,

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MAY 16, 2014

Zhang/Virginia Tech. In a perspective on the IBM paper, also published in Science , Dr. Tim Long from Virginia Tech noted that: Thermoplastics are polymers that become pliable or moldable at elevated temperatures, but return to a solid state when cooled. Click to enlarge. Jeannette M. García, Gavin O. Jones, Kumar Virwani, Bryan D.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

The College of William and Mary and its Virginia Institute of Marine Science have formed a collaborative research initiative with a number of corporate partners—notably StatoilHydro—to investigate a new technology to produce biofuel from the algae growing naturally in rivers and the Chesapeake Bay.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The project will be based in Tennessee and will support additional suppliers and operations in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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