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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One.

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Brookhaven, U Arkansas team develop new core-shell catalyst for ethanol fuel cells

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Arkansas have developed a highly efficient catalyst for extracting electrical energy from ethanol. Much of ethanol’s potential power is locked up in the carbon-carbon bonds that form the backbone of the molecule.

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EV News for a hot EV summer

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EV trucks Walmart rides Canoo The retail giant has ordered 4,500 trucks from Arkansas-based Canoo. Energy security and EVs go hand in hand. EVs and national security Duty calls EVs are increasingly seen as integral to the security of the national energy grid. Amazon Rivian delivery truck. EV outreach event.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Vanguard Panda”) had broken into “critical telecommunications, energy, water, and other infrastructure sectors.” s power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyber attack, at least when compared to American water systems. These attacks were not extremely sophisticated.” He says the U.S.’s turnaround imminent?

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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The US Department of Energy has selected 43 research projects to receive some $92 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). All these projects have been selected for negotiation of awards; the final award amounts may vary.

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AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

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The Pickens Plan calls for reducing dependence on oil, expanded use of renewable energy, a new 21st-century power grid, increased conservation and efficiency initiatives, and developing alternative fuel vehicles, such as natural gas-powered trucks and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Boone Pickens.

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Protecting a divine planet

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How great would it be if each of those churches offered a way to tap into that hope just as an EV can tap into the grid. Two of the most recent charger installations were at the East Chestnut Street Mennonite Church of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Second Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, Arkansas. What a boon!".