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DOE to invest $32M in computer design of materials

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The teams are led by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as well as the University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas and the University of Southern California.

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Penn State Li-ion battery design could charge an EV in 10 minutes; asymmetric temperature modulation

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—senior author Chao-Yang Wang, a mechanical engineer at The Pennsylvania State University. The authors received financial support from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and declare no competing interests. —Chao-Yang Wang. Yang and Liu et al. 2019.09.021.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Laker joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as an EE professor. He retired in 2019. He left in 1977 to join Bell Labs , in Holmdel, N.J.,

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. Based in Berlin, the DGS supports the introduction of solar technologies and renewable energy resources into the power grid. He retired in 2019. Goetzberger was ISE director until he retired in 1993. in 1974 and 1977, respectively.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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Renewables account for nearly half of the city’s electricity output with less than a third of its full solar and wind potential of 70 gigawatts installed so far. The plan is to power all 26 venues fully with renewables, marking a first in the games’ history. will shuttle spectators around.

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My Tour Operator Is a B Corp. What Does That Mean? Should I Care?

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When it comes to travel, she also values environmentally and socially responsible companies, which led her to choose Intrepid Travel , a certified B Corp company, for a tour in Morocco in 2019. The guidelines call for biodiversity and climate action initiatives, as well as energy efficiency and renewable energy usage in accommodations.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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In 2019 he joined the University of Twente , in Enschede, Netherlands, as a professor of electrical engineering. 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.

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