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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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Researchers determine specific rates of biodegradation for 125 petroleum compounds in Deepwater Horizon spill

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Lead author Sarah Bagby, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral scientist in the Valentine Lab at UCSB, combed through the massive data set to build a chemical fingerprint of Macondo oil based on its biomarker compounds. Bagby is now at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. Bagby, Christopher M. Reddy, Christoph Aeppli, G.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example. Among those interested parties is NASA.

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

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

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Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., We propose a prototype with special designs for propulsion and thruster configuration to cope with the vast differences in the fluid properties of water and air.

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