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What are some of the barriers preventing these clean fuel technologies from becoming widespread?

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Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

It was a modified steam - assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology that, instead of burning natural gas to create steam to inject into the oilsands layer and thus «melt» the bitumen (heavy oil) away from the sand (as some experts describe it, burning a clean fuel to create a dirty one), it would burn a bituminous byproduct of the upgrading process in a closed loop.

Other big technology companies have created similar investment funds to fuel technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality, which are generating a lot of interest from investors and analysts.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

With the money from the SBA, the cluster has worked to increase the awareness and adoption of fuel - cell technology, Rinebold says.

Advertising technology firms such as TubeMogul, Rocket Fuel and Tremor Video face fierce competition from online advertising giants Facebook (fb) and Alphabet's Google (goog).

For commercial electricity consumers, sourcing renewable power can lock in future savings from technologies whose fuel — wind, sun, water, biomass and the earth's heat — is free.

Another quick - maturing technology, which Canadian firm Iogen is pioneering, is cellulose ethanol, a fuel made from crop and forest residues and urban wastes that could be locally produced in rural British Columbia.

«The radio silence from executives over the last few days has added fuel to the growing Cambridge fire and if this data leak fiasco is left to fester it could take on a life of its own leading to tougher regulatory oversight / chatter,» Daniel Ives, head of technology research at GBH Insights, said in a research note.

The sale is the first substantial trade outcome from the Canada - India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and opens the door once again for trade in nuclear fuel, technology and services.

Given Canada's expertise in areas like clean transportation, renewable energy, waste and water treatment technologies, and fuel cells, Prime Minister Trudeau will have a strong foundation from which he can promote Canadian clean tech know - how.

With the first close of the $ 30 - million goal already secured solely from private investors, the Fund is pleased to announce its first two investments: GreenMantra, which has developed a proprietary technology platform to convert plastics into chemicals and other fuels; and Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), which is on track to create low - cost energy sensors that form the backbone of a smarter grid by providing real - time, highly granular data measurements.

Think about it: First Solar is developing technology to create clean, renewable power from the sun that is cost competitive with fossil fuels.

For instance, medical technology has given us freedom from many diseases, and gas and fuel technology gives us the warmth that furnaces make available.

CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner effluent.

The technologies it distributes have won local and global awards, including recently the IChemE global green energy award for the RAPTOR ™ system from wastewater treatment and green energy authority Global Water Engineering (GWE) for technology which replaces fossil fuels.

The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.

Fuelled by new technologies — from beacons to wearables — transport hubs are evolving into digitally enhanced destinations that offer consumers diverse dining options, innovative wellness areas, and new levels of personalised customer service.

Between May 2012 and May 2013 he earned # 43,400 from AFC Energy, a company developing alkaline fuel cell technology, for his role chairing its board.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Judy Patrick of the Daily Gazette about GE's newest startup, a fuel cell business that will operate from the Saratoga Technology and Energy Park in Malta and the high cost of school supplies.

On her campaign website, Deacon said scientists have reached a consensus on climate change so she wants to transition away from fossil fuel energy sources, invest in clean energy technology and support federal acts to protect natural resources.

The focus of this technology is on the large - scale reduction of carbon emissions from fossil - fuelled power plants.

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

The event commemorates the 5 November 1965 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report to President Lyndon B. Johnson, which warned that the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels would «almost certainly cause significant changes» to the environment.

Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel, authors of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle said yesterday.

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The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

For instance, she said that advanced fuel cell technology is of special interest in a country — and a continent — where underdeveloped infrastructure keeps some people from having «cost - effective, accessible, and easily deployed» energy sources.

Thus, nuclear fuels production, structural materials, separation techniques and waste management, all may benefit from an excellent knowledge in the nano - nuclear technology.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laboratory instrument that can measure how much of the carbon in many carbon - containing materials was derived from fossil fuels.

Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of alternative fuels and technologies.

(The admirable original bill is designed to increase fuel efficiency in cars and light trucks, encourage production of biofuels, and provide funds to develop technology that will capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.)

A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will search for a system to produce fuel from biomass and seawater

To benefit in twenty years» time from many of the proposed dual - use technologies — such as fuel cells — it must invest alongside industry now.

«This means that the mere existence of storage technology, which benefits both renewable and fossil fuel power generation, doesn't necessarily lead to lower carbon emissions from electricity generation.»

I was not pleased to see, once again, that hydrogen is linked only with fuel - cell technology, which is «many years away» from mass production and costs several times as much as internal combustion technology.

The paper, «From fossil fuels to renewables: The role of electricity storage,» also offers evidence that better storage technology boosts the efficiency of the entire electricity sector.

The latest figures from the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a trade group that advocates electric, electric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the car market.

This simple and inexpensive new sustainable fuels technology could potentially help limit global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to make fuel.

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

«In addition, fossil fuel plants benefit from better storage technology as they are able to supply electricity without incurring high ramping costs.»

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

Technology: A TV sensor to reduce fuel bills — Europe's annual showcase for electronic products, the Funkausstellung in Berlin, ran from 27 August to 5 September this year and attracted 740 exhibitors from 33 countries to its 30 halls and pavilions.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Policymakers who want to decarbonize the transportation sector will need to move beyond hype and find better ways to assess and sustain promising technologies and fuels, suggests a study from Simon Fraser University, Canadian consulting firm Navius Research, and the University of California, Davis.

«But there are ways to obtain ethanol for fuel from fermentation that produce something that chemically is very much like beer — so beer is an excellent readily available model to test our technology.»

Thirty years of alternative fuel hype have failed to deliver sales; Public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next since the 1980s; To decarbonize transportation, policymakers need better ways to assess technologies.

Efforts to reduce the waste stream from chemical manufacturing hinge on the invention of better catalysts, as do renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells and artificial photosynthesis.

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