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

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Idaho National Laboratory. The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. El Centro, Calif.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Idaho National Laboratory. Colorado School of Mines.

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Sandia progressing to demo stage with supercritical CO2 Brayton-cycle turbines; up to 50% increase in efficiency of thermal-to-electric conversion

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—principal investigator Steve Wright of Sandia’s Advanced Nuclear Concepts group. As a result, there has been research interest in producing a commercially viable S-CO 2 Brayton-cycle turbine for power generation, especially nuclear; however, much of the work has been largely analytical. Wright et al. SAND2010-0171 ).