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DOE awarding $46M to 8 companies to support commercial fusion energy development

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Austin, TX). ST40 also achieved the highest triple product by a private company. Triple product is a widely recognised industry measure of plasma density, temperature and confinement, collectively a key measure of progress on the path to realizing commercial fusion conditions. Focused Energy Inc. Xcimer Energy Inc. Everett, WA).

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. megawatt hours to form 50 metric tons of oxygen.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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We are nearing the end of manufacturing validation at Kato: field quality and yield are at viable levels and our focus is now on improving the 10% of manufacturing processes that currently bottleneck production output. While substantial progress has been made, we still have work ahead of us before we can achieve volume production.

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

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Application of Advanced Materials Processing to Enable Direct Production of Fast Reactor Fuel Alloys, $1,000,000. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000. Convergent Science Inc. Madison, Wisconsin).

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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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substantial increase in production of fuel per acre of planted. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Synthetic Crop for Direct Biofuel Production through Rerouting the Photosynthesis Intermediates and Engineering. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. biomass production.

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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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Also, there’s a lot of waste. Detecting Leukemia Adelle Jia Xin Yong, a junior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, was awarded third place for her Smart Leukemia Labs project. It costs about US $28 to make and uses low-cost materials, most of which can be found around the home, such as a metal pin and a tiny plastic tube.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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million of non-Federal cost sharing. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas.

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