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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. University of Maryland. Stanford University.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam sent between buildings at the University of Maryland. The Japanese researchers who started this tradition in 2015 prepared themselves some tea.).

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