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Press ReleasesFebruary 17, 2016The Request for Information (RFI) is soliciting feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to the demand, supply, opportunities for developing substitutes, and potential for us...Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 15, 2016A team of researchers led by experts from the Department of Energy has found that rare earth elements can be removed from two U.S. coal byproduct materials through an ion-exchange process. This discovery could potentially expand the U.S. domestic reso...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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January 4, 2016Reactive metals, rare metals, specialty metals – all these terms refer to a set of elements that include titanium, hafnium, niobium, and zirconium. The processing of these metals has a very close link with the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Ene...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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Press ReleasesDecember 2, 2015The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. The select...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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BulletinDecember 2, 2015WEBINAR: Sustained Energy Savings Achieved Through Successful Industrial Customer Interaction with Ratepayer Programs - December 10Sandy Glatt with the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) will present a summary of a rece...Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Decarbonization
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December 1, 2015The Energy Department is providing $4 million in funding to develop new technologies to locate and extract valuable rare earth elements from fluids produced by geothermal and other deep earth drilling.Geothermal Technologies Office
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Press ReleasesOctober 20, 2015The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office has issued a request for information (RFI) to obtain feedback and opinions from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on advanced thermal i...Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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Press ReleasesOctober 7, 2015Scientists at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), and their colleagues, were honored with a 2015 ASM Engineering Materials Achievement Award for their work to develop and commercialize of a platinum-chromium alloy used in next-generation ...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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Press ReleasesAugust 4, 2015The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCUs/OMIs) projects to receive funding for fossil fuel research through its...Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office
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July 7, 2015New advances, including light sources, allow for non-destructive techniques for examining old artifacts.Office of Science