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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID): $30 Million. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization. Description. Advanced Cooling Technologies. 1,100,000.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. decrease water use compared to conventional algae reactors. engineered to use fertilizer and water more efficiently and. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into fuel.

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