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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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—Phillip Ansell, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Urbana-Champaign and principal investigator. The co-principal investigator on the project is Associate Professor Kiruba Haran in U of I’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Resources.

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Tesla community comes together to fulfill terminally ill Cybertruck fan’s wish

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In a story posted on the r/TeslaLounge subreddit earlier this month, Wisconsin-based 71-year-old Tesla enthusiast u/arfarfarf stated that he reserved his Cybertruck three years ago. I tried to get secret info, but Steven was very informative yet vague,” the Wisconsin-based Tesla fan wrote. Such a cool guy. He knows Tom Zhu!

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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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Researchers develop high-strength nanotwinned aluminum alloy

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One type of stacking fault, called a 9R phase, is particularly promising, said Xinghang Zhang, a professor in Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering and the corresponding author of the Advanced Materials paper. Zhang (2018) “High-Strength Nanotwinned Al Alloys with 9R Phase” Adv. 2018, 1704629 doi: 10.1002/adma.201704629.

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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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Smith says she believed the disparity was because girls were not being introduced to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in elementary and middle school. Code Girls United Founded 2018 Headquarters Kalispell, Mont. the adjunct professor noticed the female students in her class were severely outnumbered, she says.

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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. Under the ALPHA and OPEN 2018 programs, the SFS Z-pinch demonstrated a fusion triple product exceeding 10 17 keV s/m 3. Winning BETHE projects are: Category A: Development of Lower-Cost Concepts. An HTS Axisymmetric Magnetic Mirror on a Faster Path to Lower Cost Fusion Energy - $5,000,000.

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