Cemex is awarded CO2 capture grant from DoE 09 February 2021
Cemex SAB de CV has announced that its US operations have been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to research, engineer and develop a pilot for a breakthrough carbon capture unit. The project, anchored to Cemex’s Victorville cement plant in California, will also contemplate cost-competitive solutions to completely close the loop on current carbon emissions.
In this initiative led by non-profit research institute RTI international (RTI), Cemex is joining forces with UK-based Carbon Clean and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal of the consortium is to increase efficiencies and value in Cemex’s overall building material fabrication process, while significantly reducing its CO
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Kelly Speakes-Backman addresses the ESA s annual conference, held online in 2020. Image: ESA.
Kelly Speakes-Backman, CEO of the national Energy Storage Association (ESA), has been named in the newly appointed senior leadership team at the US Department of Energy (DoE).
Speakes-Backman, appointed as the first-ever CEO of the trade association in 2017, has been appointed by the incoming administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Speakes-Backman and other appointees took up their posts on 21 January 2021.
A former utility commissioner in her home state of Maryland, Kelly Speakes-Backman has been leader of the ESA during a period of fast growth and rapid scale-up for energy storage in the US, with more than 2GW installed during that time. In a recent interview for
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Rare Element Resources Named U.S. Department of Energy Funding Recipient for Rare Earth Separation and Processing Demonstration Project
January 21, 2021 GMT
LITTLETON, Colo. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 21, 2021
Rare Element Resources Ltd. (the “Company”) (OTCQB: REEMF) is pleased to announce that formal notice has been received from the U.S. Department of Energy (“DoE”) that General Atomics, an affiliate of Synchron, the Company’s largest shareholder, along with Rare Element Resources, Inc. (“RER”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, have been selected to enter negotiations in relation to a financial award under the Critical Materials Funding Opportunity Announcement (“FOA”) for the engineering, construction and operation of a rare earth separation and processing demonstration plant.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) implemented new efficiency standards for residential furnaces, setting the minimum airflow efficiency requirement for such equipment, in order to reduce the consumption of electricity. Owing to such measures, the U.S. HVAC services market is set to grow from $25,625.8 million in 2019 to $35,714.5 million by 2030, at a 3.1% CAGR between 2020 and 2030, according to P&S Intelligence.
Regular servicing and maintenance are considered essential for running any appliance or machine smoothly, which is the major reason the U.S. HVAC services market is receiving a boost from such guidelines. By encouraging people to keep their HVAC systems working as efficiently as possible, in terms of electricity usage, the DoE hopes to reduce the country s carbon emissions by 34 million metric tons.
USA is not facing up to the climate threats to its nuclear wastes
US is Ill-Prepared to Safely Manage its Nuclear Waste from Climate Threats. More than 150 sites across the country have to be managed for radioactive waste for centuries or millennia. But there’s no plan in place for how this will be done, says GAO report. Earth Island Journal , CHARLES PEKOW, December 29, 2020 The Cold War never erupted into the nuclear nightmare that the world feared for decades. But the legacy of the never-used nuclear weapons remains a ticking time bomb that could endanger countless people and lead to environmental catastrophe any time.