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Carbon Capture:
The US DoE is offering $15 million in federal funding for "Novel Concepts for the Utilization of Carbon Dioxide from Utility and Industrial Sources." This FOA seeks projects that will develop and test technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources within three areas of interest:
The US DoE is offering $15 million in federal funding for "Novel Concepts for the Utilization of Carbon Dioxide from Utility and Industrial Sources." This FOA seeks projects that will develop and test technologies that can utilize carbon dioxide (CO2) from power systems or other industrial sources within three areas of interest:
- AOI 1: Synthesis of Value-Added Organic Products
- AOI 2: Production of Inorganic Materials: Solid Carbon Products
- AOI 3: Integrated CO2 Capture with Algae
Upcoming university energy events:
- UC Berkeley - Energy Summit: February 6 and 7
- University of Texas, Austin - Energy Week: February 17 - 21, 2020
- Carnegie Mellon - Energy Week: March 23 - 27, 2020
- Georgia Tech - Energy Expo: March, tbd, 2020
- MIT - Decision 2040: April 2 and 3
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Survey results - early-stage cleantech women professionals
Dayaway Careers conducted a survey of approximately 500 early-stage cleantech women professionals and found a number of interesting trends, among them, about 75% of all young women professionals in renewable energy are in just seven states. |
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Policy - they call it Trump-money
In 2019, the financial aid package for America's farmers was the highest in 14 years, most of which was paid out without any action by Congress. Some of the aid came from long-familiar programs, like government-subsidized crop insurance. Other payments are unprecedented, such as the aid from the Department of Agriculture, which is simply sending checks to compensate farmers for low prices caused by the trade war.
The USDA provided $12 billion in trade-related aid to farmers in 2018; in 2019, the USDA provided $16 billion. About $19 billion of that money has already been paid out, and the rest will be paid in 2020.
In 2019, the financial aid package for America's farmers was the highest in 14 years, most of which was paid out without any action by Congress. Some of the aid came from long-familiar programs, like government-subsidized crop insurance. Other payments are unprecedented, such as the aid from the Department of Agriculture, which is simply sending checks to compensate farmers for low prices caused by the trade war.
The USDA provided $12 billion in trade-related aid to farmers in 2018; in 2019, the USDA provided $16 billion. About $19 billion of that money has already been paid out, and the rest will be paid in 2020.
Q. What is sustainable in terms of emissions per person?
A. The average individual rate of 3 tons of CO2 emissions per person per year.
At the average individual rate of 3 tons of CO2 emissions per person per year, the annual total global CO2 emissions would be 21 gigatons. That's equal to the global natural carbon sinks in the ocean, soil, and biomass that keeps the amount of global CO2 in the atmosphere level.
A. The average individual rate of 3 tons of CO2 emissions per person per year.
At the average individual rate of 3 tons of CO2 emissions per person per year, the annual total global CO2 emissions would be 21 gigatons. That's equal to the global natural carbon sinks in the ocean, soil, and biomass that keeps the amount of global CO2 in the atmosphere level.
- The global average is 4.5 tons CO2 per person per year.
- If that total dropped from 4.5 tons CO2 per person per year to 3 tons, the climate change issue would be solved.
- The average person in the US emits about 17.5 tons of CO2 per year.
- The average person in China emits about 6.4 tons per person per year. (China as a country emits the most.)
- The fleet of coal-fired electricity power plants in the US produces 5.3 tons of CO2 per American per year, or about 177% of each person's global sustainable allowance.
The Energy Storage Grand Challenge
The Department of Energy is launching an Energy Storage Grand Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commercialization, and utilization of next-generation energy storage technologies. The Challenge has five big goals over the next decade:
· Technology development with ambitious, achievable performance goals.
· Technology transfer to speed up the process of moving from research to system design to use in the private sector.
· Policy and valuation to enable the most effective value proposition and use cases for storage technologies.
· Bolstering the U.S. manufacturing and supply chain for storage technologies.
· Workforce training to help U.S. workers meet the needs of the 21st Century electric grid and energy storage value chain.
ClearPath offers more information about energy storage.
The Department of Energy is launching an Energy Storage Grand Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commercialization, and utilization of next-generation energy storage technologies. The Challenge has five big goals over the next decade:
· Technology development with ambitious, achievable performance goals.
· Technology transfer to speed up the process of moving from research to system design to use in the private sector.
· Policy and valuation to enable the most effective value proposition and use cases for storage technologies.
· Bolstering the U.S. manufacturing and supply chain for storage technologies.
· Workforce training to help U.S. workers meet the needs of the 21st Century electric grid and energy storage value chain.
ClearPath offers more information about energy storage.
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Vaclav Smil - 2019 Energy Writer of the Year
The premier literary award for energy. The American Energy Society has selected Vaclav Smil as the 2019 Energy Writer of the Year, for his book, Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (The MIT Press, 2019).
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Professor Smil contends that growth is one of two constants at the center of everything: the lives of microorganisms and the capabilities of the human intellect; the fortunes of economies and the life cycles of organisms; the harnessing of wind and water and the development of cities…. Growth is an omnipresent reality of all life and every society. The other universal constant: growth has natural limits.
Past winners of “Energy Writer of the Year”:
- 2018: Nathaniel Rich, for his article, “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change” (New York Times Magazine, August 1, 2018), about a critical ten-year period - 1979 to 1989 – which was a time of great awakening in science, politics and industry that rising greenhouse gases posed an existential threat, and the disturbing realization that the awakening didn’t turn into action.
- 2017: Meghan O’Sullivan, for her literary contributions to the energy sector, especially her book Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America's Power. Ms. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- 2016: Mark Mills, for his literary contributions to the energy sector, especially his article Shale 2.0. Mr. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing scholar at and writer for 360 Review at the University of Mary.
- 2015: Coral Davenport, for her literary contributions to the energy sector, especially her thoughtful and creative use of Twitter to report news about energy and the environment. Ms. Davenport is an Energy and Environment correspondent for The New York Times.
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