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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S.

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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LLNL-led team to use microorganisms to separate and purify rare-earth elements; biomining

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Rare earths bearing core sample drilled at La Paz, Arizona. By cultivating new and translating existing bioengineered REE-converting bacteria and proteins, we will deliver platform biotechnologies for REE separation and purification with high commercialization potential.

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Delphi Technologies invests in innovative capacitor start-up PolyCharge

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Inverters are key system elements in vehicle electrification, converting electricity from a DC source (i.e., All of this happens in one production machine—eliminating the need for extruded films, film metallization, and capacitor winding. PolyCharge’s technology delivers on both of these objectives.

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Energy Secretary Chu says US faces a new Sputnik Moment in Chinas clean energy successes

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China is installing wind power at a faster rate than any nation in the world, and manufactures 40% of the world’s solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. It is home to three of the world’s top ten wind turbine manufacturers and five of the top ten silicon based PV manufacturers in the world. Renewable Energy.

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Molycorp to increase supply of rare earth materials to Hitachi Metals; the two call off US joint venture plans

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Rare earth materials and permanent magnets are utilized in a wide range of products, but are critical enablers for many clean energy technologies such as hybrid and electric-drive vehicles, wind turbines, and lighting as well as for consumer electronics, IT and communications systems, and defense systems.

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Planning to Replace the EV Components

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On the left is a jj12060 Joule individual battery charger from ElectricRider, supposedly modelled after the popular Soneil chargers.

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