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A Roomba for Rivers

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Humankind is enamored with water. But few localities have the resources or political will to pay for cleanup costs. Sebastian Gollnow/Getty Images Blowin' in the Wind. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu. But it’s actually a tokamak fusion reactor. Roomba for Rivers. Hooray for robot labor!

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

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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. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Petaluma, Calif.

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High Performance Computing Innovation Center opens at Lawrence Livermore; automotive and energy among industries to benefit

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Roughly 63 billion atoms were simulated on a supercomputer with more than 200,000 processors to analyze a physical phenomenon as familiar to us as the effects of wind blowing over a body of water. Click to enlarge. 1 ranking on the industry-standard Top500 list of the world’s most powerful computers for nearly four years.

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China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s

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Objectives include science, exploration, technology verification, resource and commercial exploitation, astronomical observation, and more. lunar regolith (the fine dust, soil, and rock that makes up most of the moon's surface) for construction and extraction of resources such as oxygen and water, would represent a big breakthrough.

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DOE releases five-year strategic plan, 2014-2018; supporting “all of the above” energy strategy

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Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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Peapod Comes Out on Earth Day '09 - GoodCleanTech

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

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