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Metals such as rare earths, copper, cobalt, and nickel continue to be critical to the energy industry and advanced technology applications. Traditional mining of these elements is predominantly located in far-flung regions of the world. MSWI ashes represent a unique opportunity as a source for some of these metals here in the U.S. The current unit cost of metal extraction and refinement, particula ...

Reduction of greenhouse gases is vital for the long-term environmental health of the planet. A large portion of the CO2 emitted each year in the United States is released from distributed sources, like cars, smaller factories, and farms. Direct capture of CO2 from ambient air is therefore necessary for the eventual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. However, capturing the CO2 ...

China has strategically invested to control the entire supply chain of rare earth metals that are crucial for energy production technology like wind turbines, and for clean technology applications like electric vehicles. The US has no rare earth metallization capacity and has very limited separation capabilities, with no production scale facilities. High energy requirements, hazardous waste genera ...

To advance in-current marine and riverine hydrokinetic energy conversion through a step change in levelized cost of energy (LCOE), Littoral Power Systems, Inc. and its team members GE Global Research, European Marine Energy Centre Ltd., National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Eclipse Group, Inc. propose to design, fabricate and test a novel hydrokinetic energy turbine that reduces LCOE by as much ...

To advance in-current marine and riverine hydrokinetic energy conversion through a step change in levelized cost of energy (LCOE), Littoral Power Systems, Inc. and its team members GE Global Research, European Marine Energy Centre Ltd., National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Eclipse Group, Inc. propose to design, fabricate and test a novel hydrokinetic energy turbine that reduces LCOE by as much ...

Methane emissions are responsible for 20% of greenhouse gas warming. A proven, economical way of mitigating these emissions is to find high-flow methane sources and convert the methane stream into carbon dioxide, using flares or generators, mitigating 96% of the warming effects. We propose to develop a miniature methane flare, capable of handling emissions from sources in the range of 10-200 tonne ...

Addressing climate change from greenhouse gas emissions to prevent continued global warming will be done with a suite of technologies. Direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO2) is receiving significant attention as a way to reverse these emissions, however, it is a relatively new technology that will require continued technology development for viable cost targets to be realized. DAC is sig ...

Nitricity is developing a technology that produces nitrogen fertilizer using inputs of air, water, and renewable electricity. If successful, this technology has the potential to economically decarbonize fertilizer production from the Haber-Bosch process, which is a $68B global market and gigaton CO2eq/yr mitigation opportunity. Our team has developed a plasma-based process that couples with on-far ...

Herein, Zymochem, Inc., in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), proposes to develop carbon- and energy-efficient biocatalysts capable of co-conversion of C1- and biomass-derived substrates to a high-volume platform fuel and chemical intermediate. We propose to demonstrate a carbon conserving decoupled growth & production (DGP) process to enable improved carbon efficien ...

Herein, Zymochem, Inc., in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), proposes to develop carbon- and energy-efficient biocatalysts capable of co-conversion of C1- and biomass-derived substrates to a high-volume platform fuel and chemical intermediate. We propose to demonstrate a carbon conserving decoupled growth & production (DGP) process to enable improved carbon efficien ...