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Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority

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During the virtual visioning event in December, experts explored solar and renewable energy, carbon sequestration, water management, and geoengineering. Sustainable transportation networks Planning has begun for the next visioning event, Sustainable Transportation Networks , to be held virtually on 2 and 3 November.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use. To construct the system model, project teams will use data that can be measured and obtained from currently available sources. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

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A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. However, while significant investment would need to be made for large-scale methanol deployment in the transportation sector, there is no technical hurdle both in terms of vehicle application and of distribution infrastructure, they noted.