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Optimus Technologies closes $17.8M Series A to advance Vector System for heavy-duty engines on 100% biodiesel

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The capital raise will fund the further development and deployment of Optimus’ Vector System, an advanced fuel system technology which enables medium- and heavy-duty diesel engines to operate on 100% biodiesel. The Vector System is an advanced fuel system upgrade that integrates into existing engines without significant modifications.

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NASA awarding $6 million to 3-year ULI project to develop approach to electric aircraft fueled by liquid hydrogen

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The hydrogen chemical energy is converted to electrical energy through a series of fuel cells, which drive the ultra-efficient electric propulsion system. —Phillip Ansell, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Urbana-Champaign and principal investigator. University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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ARPA-E announces $12M for five projects in nuclear materials science; first OPEN+ cohort

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Traditionally, ARPA-E OPEN solicitations issue an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. ARPA-E plans to announce a total of nine OPEN+ cohorts throughout late 2018 and early 2019.

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DOE selects 15 projects for $32M to advance lower-cost fusion concepts; ARPA-E BETHE

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University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sheared Flow Stabilized Z-Pinch Performance Improvement - $1,000,000 The SFS Z pinch is an approach that gets smaller as the fuel is heated closer to fusion conditions. Under the ALPHA and OPEN 2018 programs, the SFS Z-pinch demonstrated a fusion triple product exceeding 10 17 keV s/m 3.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Five New Fusion Prospects, Minus the Neutrons

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“In the last decade or so, people have started to think more and more about advanced fuels, because of how much damage neutrons can do.” Gerald Kulcinski, University of Wisconsin A new breed of maverick fusioneers is aiming to solve the neutron problem. These beams also heat the plasma and supply it with fresh fuel.

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Researchers engineer yeast to tolerate ionic liquid used in biomass pretreatment for biofuel production

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Now, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and several Department of Energy laboratories have identified two changes to a single gene in S. It’s a simple engineering procedure, which doesn’t take long and isn’t expensive. cerevisiae that enable the yeast to tolerate ionic liquids used as biomass pretreatment chemicals.

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