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Power-to-gas trial to inject hydrogen into Australia’s gas grid; A$5M award to AquaHydrex

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On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. In the future, there will be increasing amounts of surplus renewable energy when it is sunny or windy.

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Scientists use machine learning and HiTp to speed discovery of metallic glasses by 200 times; approach applicable to other materials

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Researchers at SLAC and their colleagues at Northwestern University and NIST have combined machine learning (ML) and high-throughput (HiTp) experiments to find a new system of metallic glasses in the Co-V-Zr ternary. In the metallic glass study, the research team investigated thousands of alloys that each contain three cheap, nontoxic metals.

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A Quantum of Sensing—Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom

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Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. MIT The nano-diamonds and the other materials used in the test are cheap. Cerca Magnetics wearable MEG helmets can, the company says, safely be worn by even an active child.

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Flexible Monocopter Drone Can Be Completely Rolled Up

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The monocopter we're looking at here, called F-SAM, comes from the Singapore University of Technology & Design, and we've written about some of their flying robots in the past, including this transformable hovering rotorcraft.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. Carlos 12:43 AM walt the memecaster said.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex.

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