University of Wyoming Gets $3 Million from Department of Energy Written by Andrew-Rossi on May 7, 2021
The University of Wyoming receives over $3 million from the Department of Energy to further the production of rare-earth elements and other critical minerals.
This funding is part of the nation’s continued efforts to transition to clean energy. Rare earth minerals are vital to manufacturing batteries, magnets, and other components in clean energy.
The United States continues to operate with a meager supply of these critical natural resources. Creating a domestic supply is crucial and something in which the Department of Energy is more than willing to invest.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded US$19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil fuel-producing communities across the country to support the production of rare earth elements and critical minerals vital to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy. Facing persistent shortages in domestic supply, the US has been forced to rely on imported materials, leaving clean energy technology production at greater risk of disruption.
“The very same fossil fuel communities that have powered our nation for decades can be at the forefront of the clean energy economy by producing the critical minerals needed to build electric vehicles, wind turbines, and so much more,” said Secretary of Energy, Jennifer M. Granholm. “By building clean energy products here at home, we’re securing the supply chain for the innovative solutions needed to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 – all while creating go
Margaret Alberta (Welton) Whitehead, 94, passed away on Dec. 28, 2020, at the Memory Care unit of Edgewood Vista in Virginia, Minn.
Margaret was born on Aug. 17, 1926, on a family vacation in Lacomb, Alberta, Canada. She was brought into the world in a Welton family home. Her older brother Roy was heard to say, âI ve changed 4 tires, I hope I don t have to change her!â
After the family purchased a ranch on Pass Creek in Wyoming, which they named the Hat Creek Ranch, they first moved from Franklin, Pa., and then Denver, Colo. She grew up on that vast ranch at the base of beautiful Elk Mountain, about 40 miles east of Rawlins, Wyo. The land was sprawling and never ending. It was there in a one room schoolhouse that her dad had built that she and her two sisters attended daily classes. Her three brothers were either working on the ranch or attending high school in Rawlins; as she and her sisters would, as well. They stayed at a boarding house during the week and rode the bus
The U.S. Department of Energyâs (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 14 projects to receive $8.7 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development under Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002185, Coal-Derived Materials for Building, Infrastructure, and Other Applications, with the goal of fostering new uses for domestic coal resources.
Of the 14 projects selected, 2 are from the University of Wyoming. Check out their project details below shared by the DOE.
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The University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY) plans to develop coal-derived carbon building materials from Powder River Basin coal pyrolysis products. Two proposed building components containing less than 70% carbon are char-based concrete brick (CCB) and carbon-based structural unit (CSU). Products have the potential to be transformational, manufactured at low cost with minimal carbon f