Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: July 29, 2010

DOE’s New Energy Hub to Develop Fuels from Sunlight DOE: $30M for Energy-Efficient Housing Partnerships DOE, DOD Announce Clean Energy Agreement Maine, Nova Scotia Signs Ocean Energy Agreement Unmanned Solar Aircraft Soars 14 Days International Renewable Energy Agency Gets Global Status DOE announced on July 22 the creation of the "Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub" to develop revolutionary methods of generating fuels directly from sunlight. The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), led by the California Institute of Technology in partnership with the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, will operate the initiative. JCAP will bring together leading researchers in an effort to simulate natural photosynthesis for practical energy production. The goal is to build an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system. The hub will receive up to $22 million in Fiscal Year 2010, then an estimated $25 million a year for the next four fiscal years. Research will be directed at finding the functional components needed to assemble a complete artificial photosynthetic system, including light absorbers, catalysts, molecular linkers, and separation membranes. The hub will then integrate those components into an operational solar fuel system and will develop scale-up strategies to move the product from the lab to commercial […]

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