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Georgia Tech researchers develop aluminum-foil-based anodes for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries

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The project began as a collaboration between the Georgia Tech team and Novelis, a leading manufacturer of aluminum and the world’s largest aluminum recycler, as part of the Novelis Innovation Hub at Georgia Tech. The brown spheres represent the SSE and the green spheres represent NMC. Support is acknowledged from Novelis, Inc.

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The “Amazon Effect” Is Coming To Oil Markets

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While OPEC mulls over further steps to once again support falling oil prices, tech startups are quietly ushering in a new era in oil and gas: the era of the digital oil field. These are cheap computing with industrial-application capabilities; ubiquitous communication networks; and, of course, cloud tech. What’s not to like?

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Russian researchers find simple, efficient way to strengthen aluminum-based composite materials

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However, we are not going to stop here, and in the future we plan to continue working on the creation of more advanced, complex (3-, 4 - and more phase) and cheap composites, the production cycle of which will include the use of aluminum of technical purity and cheaper alloying components. Akopyan, N.A. Belov, E.A. Naumova, N.V.

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Georgia Tech team develops high-performance intermediate-temperature sold-oxide fuel cell

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A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. The world fractures into two camps in a clean-tech cold war. The result is a win–win for climate and security. Geopolitical friction is low. Technology breakthrough. ?A

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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asked David Marcus, the head of the project at Facebook, whether the company would wait for Congress to consider appropriate regulation. Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Apple is another obvious example.