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

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