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Hydro-Québec and Technifin form partnership to license lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies for Li-ion battery applications

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The Hydro-Québec/Technifin LTO patents comprise two separate groups of patent rights affording extensive worldwide protection for LTO technology. It has been conducting research on batteries for over 30 years, including extensive work on advanced materials, particularly molten salts, lithium iron phosphate and nanotitanates.

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Sadoway and MIT team demonstrate calcium-metal-based liquid metal battery

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MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

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MIT team proposes ARC fusion reactor: affordable, robust, compact

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Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The resulting efficient current drive provides a robust, steady state core plasma far from disruptive limits.

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ARPA-E to award $30M to increase performance of solid ion conductors for batteries, fuel cells

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There are many classes of ion conductors, including aqueous and nonaqueous salt solutions; solid ceramics; polymers and polymer gels; molten salts; and others. Electrochemical cells that operate near ambient temperatures typically use either a liquid electrolyte (e.g.,

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. affordably and dynamically control power flow will open up. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture.

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