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DOE launches wave energy competition

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened the registration period for the new Wave Energy Prize competition that aims to double the state-of-the-art performance of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices over the next two years. The Wave Energy Prize provides an opportunity for participants to: Win a monetary prize.

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DOE To Award $104.7M to Establish Research and Testing Facilities for Carbon Fiber Manufacturing, Advanced Batteries, and Net-Zero Energy Building Technology

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $104.7 The projects will support the development and improvement of clean energy and efficiency technologies of strategic national interest. The Department of Energy solicited applications from eligible National Laboratories nationwide. ORNL will also receive $20.2

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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Sandia National Laboratories , a research and development lab that specializes in building microgrids for military bases, is teaming up with NASA to design one that will work on the moon. There are, of course, some differences between designing a microgrid for a moon base and designing a similar setup used on Earth.

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DOE Selects Laboratory-led Projects for up to $11M to Support Development of Advanced Water Power Technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.)

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

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Sandia Successfully Completes Hydrogen Storage System for GM

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The hydrogen storage system Sandia designed for GM. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have successfully designed and demonstrated key features of a hydrogen storage system that utilizes a complex metal hydride material—sodium alanate. The design also aids in the packaging of the system to fit on board a vehicle.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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Department of Energy science and engineering research center. For 16 weeks he worked with a group of researchers designing and developing EISPACK , a package of Fortran routines that compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices—calculations common in scientific computing. a nearby U.S. I was ready to try my hand at academia.”.

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