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

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The agency decided to create the OPEN+ cohorts—drawing from the large and impressive OPEN 2018 applicant pool—to focus on particular topics in energy where ARPA-E sees significant opportunities to innovate and create new communities. ARPA-E plans to announce a total of nine OPEN+ cohorts throughout late 2018 and early 2019.

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Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

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And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Technologies include energy storage with molten salt and liquid air or cryogenic storage. But feasibility in today’s grid applications requires the application of the latest technologies.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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“With these materials finally becoming commercially available, we realized that we didn’t need to make additional physics breakthroughs,” says Mumgaard, who cofounded CFS in 2018 and is now the company’s CEO. “In The molten salt will likely be a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride, known as FLiBe.

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