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Cornell energy center receives $12.6M in renewed funding for alkaline fuel cell work

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million for a four-year period to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media. The center, part of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program supported by the US Department of Energy, was created in 2018 with an initial $10.75-million million grant from the DOE Office of Science.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. Its goal is to address key challenges of transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy, including battery storage integration, improving power quality, universal energy access, and increasing efficiency and reliability. He was granted 15 patents. patents during his time at IBM.

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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. This research was supported by grants from the Department of Energy (DE-SC0018409, DE-FC02-07ER64494 and DE-AC02-05CH11231). Higgins, Megan K. Wrobel, Chris Todd Hittinger, Audrey P.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Power plants would face an overall cap on emissions that would become more stringent over time; motor fuel may be subject to a carbon tax whose proceeds could help electrify the U.S. percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. The program then reduces the cap by 2.5

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