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PNNL IntelliVent system reduces risk of explosions in outdoor battery cabinets

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Recent fires at battery storage facilities in Surprise, Arizona, and Liverpool, England, highlighted the dangers these kinds of fires can present. The April 2019 incident in Arizona at an energy storage facility left four firefighters injured, two seriously. MW battery with the IntelliVent system.

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Tesla’s war against direct sales wages on with big win in Virginia

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Prominent officials and members of the general public expressed support for Tesla stores in the regions of Charlottesville, Arlington, and Norfolk. Tesla has worked toward legal direct sales in states like New Mexico , Arizona , Louisiana, Connecticut, Wyoming, and Indiana in recent memory.

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Celebrating the Life of University of Texas Professor Mo-Shing Chen

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The IEEE Fellow was a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for more than 40 years. She had invented an early graphing calculator and worked on the design and construction of hydroelectric power systems including the Hoover Dam , located on the Nevada-Arizona border. Chen created UTA’s first Ph.D.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute approves 41 projects for 2012 Community Sequencing Program; climate, environment and bioenergy feedstocks

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University of Texas at Arlington. University of Arizona. A Phylogenomic Framework to Investigate Fungal Thermophily. Pukkila, Patricia. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Functional genomics in the model mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea. Rodrigues, Jorge. Schadt, Christopher. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 1000 Fungal Genomes.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Arlington). Berkeley, Arizona State. . $2,319,474. Pacific Northwest. National Laboratory. Ames Laboratory, Electron Energy Corp, United Technologies. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. Manganese-Based Permanent Magnet with 40 MGOe at 200 °C Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and team will reduce.

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