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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. Albuquerque, N.M. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. DOE share: $799,897; recipient share: $199,976; duration 18 months). DOE share: $609,619; recipient share: $390,381; duration 32 months). Altela Inc.,

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

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A better solution—and one which has been all but universally adopted by EV OEMs—is to use a heat pump, and by far the most popular type is one in which a refrigerant gas is compressed to a hot gas, condensed back into a liquid, evaporated into a gas again (absorbing considerable heat in the process), then repeating the cycle, all in a closed loop.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Array Technologies (Albuquerque, New Mexico). Emera Technologies, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico). CSolPower, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico).