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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Interest in fusion energy is surging today in response to the world’s desperate need for abundant clean power. However, the standard deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction at the core of conventional fusion reactors conceals big, long-term problems. “In The company launched in 1998 and is now capitalized at about US $1.25

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JUNE 29, 2023

But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

a developer of autonomous technology for the trucking industry, will use NVIDIA DRIVE autonomous vehicle compute platform solutions to power the Embark Universal Interface (EUI) and the Embark Driver software. Embark Trucks Inc.,

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APRIL 8, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Despite these gains, though, traditional magnetic-confinement fusion is still years away from fulfilling nuclear fusion’s promise of generating abundant and carbon-free electricity. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. University of Washington. Seattle-based. They won a series of U.S. Zap Energy.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nebrija University (Spain) students undertook the redesign and technological improvement of a car of the Sodicars team that took part in the 2023 Dakar Rally in the top-class category (T1).The The agreement focuses in particular on the redesign of and technological improvements to Sodicars’ BV2 vehicle.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a novel way to prevent magnetic bubbles, or islands, in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions—delivering a potential way to improve the performance of fusion energy devices. —Allan Reiman.

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JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Since the 1940s, physicists have tried, but no one has yet created an efficient nuclear fusion reaction. So could neural nets and the GPUs that power them help in nuclear fusion? The researchers published another recent study that used a single GPU to control a fusion experiment that had previously required several computers.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. Among those interested parties is NASA. percent efficiency.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

The University of Manchester has been awarded £1.3m by the UKAEA for the development of lithium technologies for fusion energy. The post Fusion energy development boosted with funding for lithium technology appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Lockheed Martin revealed yesterday that its Skunk Works team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR)—the size of a Class 8 trailer rather than a building—that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. —Tom McGuire, compact fusion lead for the Skunk Works’ Revolutionary Technology Programs.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chile are proposing that quantum-controlled motion of nuclei, starting from the nanometer-size ground state of a molecule, can potentially overcome some of the difficulties of thermonuclear fusion by compression of a fuel pellet or in a bulk plasma.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it.

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MAY 15, 2015

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. Colorado State University.

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MAY 25, 2015

The finding may quicken the development of fusion energy. High heat and pressure are crucial to fusion, a process in which atomic nuclei—or ions—smash together and release energy; this makes even a brief rise in pressure of great importance for the development of fusion energy. Allen, D.J. Battaglia, A.R. McKee, P.B.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents. in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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APRIL 6, 2017

At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. North Carolina A&T University. Michigan Tech.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed a possible solution to a barrier to harnessing fusion. Fusion occurs when plasmas become hot and dense enough for the atomic nuclei contained within the hot gas to combine and release energy. —David A.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ford and the University of Michigan opened a new $8-million battery lab, housed at the U-M Energy Institute, which will serve as a battery manufacturing facility designed to support pilot projects. Other investors include the University of Michigan, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the US Department of Energy.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. Click to enlarge. Rear Automatic Braking.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The project, which will run between 1 September 2022 and 30 June 2025, comprises a consortium led by HVS and includes Grayson (thermal systems); Fusion Processing (vehicle vision systems); and PNDC (a commercial arm of Strathclyde University specializing in power electronics).

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JULY 19, 2012

The new Ford Fusion will be the first non-hybrid Ford vehicle available in the US with Auto Start-Stop. Many of the patents associated with [the Fusion start/stop system] make sure that the system recognizes the battery capability and works to those. The 2013 Fusion with Auto Start-Stop also provides coaching to the driver.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Applanix, a Trimble Company, is collaborating on advanced research for autonomous vehicle guidance and control systems with the University of Waterloo Center for Automotive Research (WatCAR). Applanix will also provide the Trimble GNSS-Inertial board set for integration with car systems and sensors to enable precise positioning.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Put another way, the purpose of the MIT project is enhance the utilization of the line-of-sight data already acquired by the Fusion’s sensors to provide augmented predictive capability, especially for pedestrians. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The consortium includes the University of Bristol, EDF UK, UKAEA and Urenco. This will be a world first technology demonstrator which is a beautiful and exciting translation of a well proven fusion-fuel hydrogen isotope storage technology that the UK Atomic Energy Authority has used for several decades at a small scale. million (US$9.3

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JULY 20, 2021

Bell had previously been at Northrop Grumman, doing spacecraft design and testing, and had researched electrodynamic tethers , including for use with CubeSats, as part of his postdoc work with Brian Gilchrest at the University of Michigan, where Bell earned his master's and Ph.D. Moving to his role at Cubic's Hanover, Md.,

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

This project will analyze detailed data gathered during a powder bed fusion process to both control the manufacturing and predict the final properties of the manufactured parts. University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million). Purdue University ($999,929). Northeastern University ($999,464).

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JANUARY 24, 2023

He has been a guest lecturer at California State University, the University of California, and Xiamen University. Her areas of interest include multisensor data fusion, intelligent systems, and cybersecurity in aerospace systems. His area of expertise is certifying critical systems.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Drug Metabolism In a 2022 paper published in PNAS , a collaboration between pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, Columbia University, Google Quantum AI, and quantum simulation company QSimulate examined an enzyme called cytochrome P450. How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?”

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The system is a fusion of a GPS (or GNSS, Global Navigation Satellite System) and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) integrating three accelerometers and three gyroscopes, based on a context-aided Unscented Kalman filter for navigation in urban conditions. Sensors Volume: 12 Number: 12 Pages: 16802-16837 doi: 10.3390/s121216802.

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APRIL 25, 2024

“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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AUGUST 4, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award more than $327 million for scientific research, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure projects including biofuels, smart grid and fusion energy research, among others. million to upgrade equipment at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI); $11 million for fusion energy research; $8.8

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AUGUST 1, 2020

University of Alabama. University of North Dakota. North Carolina State University. Oregon State University. Advanced Sensing for Characterization and Sorting of Non-Recyclable Plastics Using Sensor Fusion with Artificial Intelligence. University of Cincinnati. University of Maryland - College Park.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Ford is the first automaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity—the full-scale simulated real-world urban environment at the University of Michigan. The 32-acre facility is part of the university’s Mobility Transformation Center. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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