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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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Drexel University aims to design a significantly more efficient, fast, low-cost, compact, and reliable circuit breaker for medium-voltage direct-current (MVDC) power system. Gas tubes switch without mechanical motion by transitioning the internal gas between its ordinary insulating state and a highly conductive gas plasma.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. temperature ranges similar to internal combustion engines.

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How to improve EV traction motor efficiency

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Read more EV Tech Explained articles. Worse still is that the losses in a magnetic material tend to increase at an exponential rate with frequency and flux swing (typically to the 1.5-2.5 from high dV/dt), hence the growing use of ceramics for the bearing balls and races.

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