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

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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 CABES was one of 42 centers awarded funding in 2018; this year, more than $540 million was given out to 65 universities and national labs.

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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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Key challenges faced are to come up with a scientifically sound basis for qualifying the 3D printed parts, as well as demonstrating that facilities for the efficient large-scale production of these parts can be designed and used. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Resources. Perry and P.

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

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The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is awarding $12 million in funding for 5 projects as part of its first OPEN+ program. 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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The US Department of Energy announced the winners of $32 million in funding for 15 projects as part of the ARPA-E Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ) program. 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.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg. He founded the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives global competition in 2018 to crowdsource ideas that could improve energy access in underserved communities. In 2006 he was promoted to head of the department. He was granted 15 patents.

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XALT Energy, HED develop XBV telematics system for battery-electric powertrains

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XALT Energy, a part of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, is a Midland, Mich.-based a Wisconsin-based telematics company, also allows XALT to monitor the system data to analyze needs such as the actual energy required to optimize vehicle performance. Starting in 2018, XALT took its pursuit of telematics to a new level.

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

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percent per year over the next four years so that in 2018 there is a ten percent reduction from the baseline. states (Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) and one Canadian province (Manitoba). percent per year over four years for a total reduction of ten percent by 2018. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions.

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