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SwRI to demonstrate use of electric vehicles as part of emergency power microgrid under US Army SPIDERS program

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independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., SPIDERS uses the conceptual designs of an Energy Surety Microgrid developed by Sandia National Laboratories, and has four specific goals for electric power surety at US military installations: To protect critical. infrastructure from power loss. infrastructure from power loss.

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NREL teaming with Oorja to validate direct methanol fuel cell technology in material handling applications

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Methanol (CH 3 OH) is mixed with water and fed directly to the fuel cell anode, where it is oxidized on a catalyst layer to form carbon dioxide, hydrogen ions (H + ) and the electrons that travel through the external circuit as the electric output of the fuel cell. Earp Distribution (Kansas City, Kan.), and Commerce, Calif.),

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