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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ). Fully Fluorinated Local High Concentration Electrolytes Enabling High Energy Density Silicon Anodes. 5,000,000.

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Winners of 2012 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

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His approach also uses a low-cost feedstock. The electrochemical production of alumina requires enormous amounts of energy, further compromised by scale buildup that depletes production efficiency. of Memphis, Tenn., Codexis optimized the process, and to date has manufactured more than 10 metric tons of simvastatin.

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

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The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power.

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Axion supplying PbC batteries to Norfolk Southern for all-battery switcher and working on line-haul hybrid locomotives; micro-hybrid and stationary expansion

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The Crescent Corridor is a 2,500-mile (4,023-km) rail network supporting the supply chain from Memphis and New Orleans to New Jersey. All of these things that are new put more and more strain on the battery and create the need for the battery to have excess energy. Thelen (2011) Energy Savings, a. —Tom Granville.

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