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PNNL joins H2USA consortium on hydrogen infrastructure

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That project is taking place with grocery chains in Texas, California and New York. Several PNNL projects are aimed at inventing new ways of safely storing hydrogen on board a vehicle or lowering the cost of carbon fiber tanks, and its scientists have developed new catalysts for fuel cells and hydrogen production technologies.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. ICESat lost one laser altimeter after just 36 days of data collection in 2003, and by late 2009 all the satellite’s lasers had stopped working. In the late 2000s, IPR surveying got an unexpected boost. At the time, two U.S.