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ORNL and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in CRADA for development of fluoride salt-cooled high-temp reactors

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The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Companies have looked into pumped hydroelectric systems that generate electricity from water flowing out of large artificial reservoirs, underground caverns that store hydrogen fuel electrolyzed from water, elevators that lift blocks of concrete and harvest their potential energy as they fall. But the space is still young.

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JBEI scientists use CO2 to control toxicity of ionic liquids in biomass pretreatment; lowering production costs

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When CO 2 is absorbed in water, the resulting chemical reactions increase the liquid’s acidity. Scown, Blake Simmons and Seema Singh (2016) “CO 2 enabled process consolidation for the production of cellulosic ethanol in bionic liquids” Energy Environ. JBEI is supported by DOE’s Office of Science. doi: 10.1039/C6EE00913A.