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PNNL IntelliVent system reduces risk of explosions in outdoor battery cabinets

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The April 2019 incident in Arizona at an energy storage facility left four firefighters injured, two seriously. The Snohomish County Public Utility District’s new Arlington Microgrid and Clean Energy Center, in Everett, Washington, will be the first to install the safety technology when it retrofits a 1.2

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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in 1997, he moved east to manage an aerodynamics and hypersonics research program at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research , in Arlington, Va. Hypersonic weapons fly at low altitude trajectories at more than five times the speed of sound. billion program launched in 2019 to remake the U.S. After getting his Ph.D.

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