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Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

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The effort will support DOE’s H2@Scale initiative to enable affordable large scale hydrogen production, storage, transport and utilization across multiple sectors. Coalitions are working toward similar goals in states including California, Connecticut, Ohio and South Carolina.

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Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial electrolyzer

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Most of the projects will support the goals of EV Everywhere, an Energy Department program that aims to make PEVs as affordable and convenient as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. Accelerated Development and Deployment of LowCost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Applicant. . Plug In America. Description.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Connecticut Green Bank. A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. Berkshire Hathaway Energy. California Air Resources Board. ChargePoint.

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Inexpensive 3D-Printed Microscope Can Spot Coronavirus in Blood

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He is the director of the Multidimensional Optical Sensing and Imaging Systems Lab at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. I wanted to find a way to quickly test for the virus from a droplet of blood using an affordable, portable, and rapid disease-identification system," he says. His collaborators were Dr. Bruce T.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. NEL Hydrogen (Wallingford, Connecticut). Pune, India).