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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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states and countries adopting measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions, now "might be the right time for CSP to become more broadly applicable," said Margaret Gordon , the CSP program manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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states and countries adopting measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions, now "might be the right time for CSP to become more broadly applicable," said Margaret Gordon , the CSP program manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. The first utility-scale solar-thermal plants were built in the 1980s.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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The habitation unit will be about the same size as the International Space Station , the mining and processing center a bit larger, with a distance of around 10 kilometers between them, Rashkin says. All of the testing and tweaking will take place at Sandia’s Secure Scalable Microgrid Testbed , in Albuquerque. “We

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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He received US $1 million as part of the award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of computing. he left the lab to study applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. For his work, he was honored this year with the 2021 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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The ACES results are expected to play an important role in future risk reviews of diesel engines by international and US agencies. The core study was led by Dr. Jacob McDonald, of Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the exposures were carried out.

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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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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. FPL also commits to continue to place EVs into its fleet when possible.

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First results from HEI/ACES murine study find few biologic effects from exposure to exhaust from new technology diesel engines

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These results are expected to play an important role in upcoming risk reviews by international and US agencies of older and new technology diesel engines, including a review of the carcinogenicity of diesel exhaust in June, 2012 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.

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