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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced up to $30 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy ( BETHE ). improvements to and application of existing fusion R&D capabilities to accelerate the development of multiple concepts.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). Earlier post.). University of California, San Diego.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Fusion Fuel has entered the centralized electrolyzer market with the introduction of its HEVO-Chain solution. Render of Fusion Fuel’s HEVO-Chain hydrogen unit. —Jaime Silva, Chief Technology Officer of Fusion Fuel. kW of electrolysis capacity and outputting 5.6 kg of hydrogen per day at a pressure of 4 bar.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. Click to enlarge. Rear Automatic Braking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Today, industry uses Selective Catalytic Reduction to reduce NO x , but the scrubbers are expensive to build and to operate. The concept is to inject electron beams into the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant and, firing them in pulses, break apart the NOx bonds. Wolford is now testing with a more realistic sample.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fusion Fuel ( earlier post ) completed the interconnection of its H2Évora plant to the Portuguese electric grid and has successfully commissioned the facility. HEVO is Fusion Fuel’s proprietary miniaturized PEM electrolyzer, designed to be small, lightweight, and mass-producible.

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JUNE 4, 2014

Ford Lightweight Concept. Ford Motor Company unveiled its Lightweight Concept vehicle, which uses advanced materials to explore future weight-reduction solutions that could improve performance and fuel efficiency while reducing CO 2 emissions. Click to enlarge. —Raj Nair, Ford group vice president, Global Product Development.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Interest in fusion energy is surging today in response to the world’s desperate need for abundant clean power. However, the standard deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction at the core of conventional fusion reactors conceals big, long-term problems. The company launched in 1998 and is now capitalized at about US $1.25

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The proposed tokamak (donut-shaped) reactor is designed to have 500 MW fusion power at 3.3

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MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. ALPHA AWARDS. Lead organization.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Coupled with its in-house Sensor Fusion technology, Pony.ai This builds on Pony.ai is also unveiling a concept design for the new AD system, making the sensor suite more integrated and aesthetically pleasing while also more effective for mass production. The self-developed traffic light camera has a resolution rate 1.5

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MARCH 29, 2024

Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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MAY 25, 2022

Around 50,000 components per year can be manufactured cost-effectively in common part production, as well as more than 10,000 individual and new parts, by means of 3D printing using Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF). Over the course of the project, innovative concepts were developed for automated generation of 3D printing construction data.

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JUNE 23, 2014

At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline. Installed in a 2013 Fusion.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The company plans to build 20 high-speed charging stations in Korea by 2021. Following the Korea and US markets, Genesis plans to expand its presence in China and Europe to build awareness and demand for the eco-friendly luxury brand. Hyundai will also make efforts in charging infrastructure as well as battery businesses. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a group of new technologies that build up objects, usually by laying down many thin layers on top of each other. The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding grants totaling $7.4 Concurrent Technologies Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

At the Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its close-to-production concept Generation EQ electric vehicle—the forerunner of Mercedes-Benz’s new product brand for electric mobility, EQ. The Generation EQ is the logical fusion of all four pillars, he said. Other buildings recede elegantly into the background.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

The facility will allow Ford to collaborate with battery cell manufacturers, suppliers, university researchers and startups to test new battery concepts on a small scale that could be replicated for full production. Other investors include the University of Michigan, Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the US Department of Energy.

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JULY 27, 2014

Delphi Automotive PLC will unveil the second generation of its Technology Truck concept highlighting future technologies at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show being held 25 Sept - 2 Oct in Hannover, Germany. Fundamental safety building blocks for future automated vehicles.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Minimalist design isn’t something we’ve associated with BMW of late, so the just-revealed electric i Vision Dee concept is a refreshing, simplistic treat. A world away from front grilles that could swallow a herd of buffalo, the i Vision Dee mid-size sedan concept offers, BMW says, a new and pared-down design language.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Surround view” systems optimally detect the entire vehicle surrounding, and will serve as an addition to the ContiGuard safety concept. In particular, the fusion of radar and camera will allow new and expanded features, and it is an important prerequisite for implementing automated driving.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Our readers wanted to know more about power beaming , new kinds of nuclear fusion, vertical solar farms, powerful ways to drill deeper into the Earths crust to harness geothermal energy, and grid hardware that connects renewable energy projects. It sits on a table top and was constructed using 3D-printed and off-the-shelf parts.

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APRIL 15, 2010

It builds on the fuel efficiency “coaching” concept in the SmartGauge with EcoGuide cluster for the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and Mercury Milan Hybrid as well as the all-new 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid. The MyFord Touch fuel economy functionality is the latest effort from Ford to help drivers optimize their fuel economy.

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MAY 18, 2016

sensor fusion. This same concept is applied in the AcuraWatch safety and driver-assistive suite available on all model year 2016 Acura sedans and SUVs. These enhancements have been combined with new, more intelligent software algorithms to support more complex testing scenarios.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

New elements are the active latitudinal control and the combination of longitudinal and lateral control in all speed ranges through the fusion of radar and camera information. Active Drive Assist builds upon the tried-and-tested adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go function and the lane-keeping assistant from Mercedes-Benz.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Reducing the number of genes needed to build carboxysomes should facilitate the transfer of carboxysomes into plants. This proof of concept also shows that BMCs can be broken down to the sum of their parts, ones that can be exchanged. The new protein replaces four gene products, yet still supports photosynthesis. Resources.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When researchers decided to build a commercial version, they had to shift their perspective, taking a sprawling laboratory setup and reimagining it as a portable unit fit for mass production and the rigors of the real world. Already, two startups have spun out of the Princeton lab, both seeking a path to commercial fusion. are chasing.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

We aim to continue to play a leading role in shaping the future of mobility—with new mobility concepts, with cognitive cars and services which focus on people and make their daily lives easier and better. sensor fusion. —Anke Kleinschmit, Head of Daimler Group Research.

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JULY 11, 2018

AI is an important building block in for a fully automated and driverless vehicle network of several individual ECUs (Electronic control units). The ECU network combines data sourced from all the surround sensors in a process called sensor fusion. Bosch and Daimler developed an efficient concept based on liquid cooling.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. Brookhaven National Laboratory PROOF OF CONCEPT: A research team led by Brookhaven National Laboratory and ABB built a magnetic energy-storage system using HTS that achieved a 12.5-tesla

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MARCH 30, 2014

Building on novel computation techniques, assistant professor Heather J. In-cylinder catalysis for ATR: Piston driven chemical reactors; Leslie Bromberg, Plasma Science and Fusion Center; William Green, chemical engineering; Wai Cheng, mechanical engineering; John Brisson, mechanical engineering.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?. Demonstrate the integration of 50% variable distributed energy resources on distribution feeders with electric vehicles and building energy management systems by 2020 with high reliability and resiliency.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Fusion Petroleum Technologies , Inc. Paulsson investigators will build and test a prototype of a downhole seismic system capable of deploying a thousand 3C downhole receivers using fiber optic geophone technology deployed on drill pipe. The research will focus on capillary and dissolution trapping.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In his 1949 book The Concept of Mind , Gilbert Ryle, an English philosopher, introduced the term “category mistake.” The category mistake is obvious: A university is an institution, not a collection of buildings. Today, no category mistake is perhaps more consequential than the all-too-common view of the global energy transition.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

The kits can be expanded with the addition of mezzanine boards, keeping their compact size, which is beneficial for rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept projects where users can add their own attachments and integrate the kit into their preferred robot, camera, or other hardware platform. The kit will also run Android OS.

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JUNE 29, 2022

The concept of. A fully self-driving vehicle is still quite expensive to build. The RSUs then communicate directly with the deployed vehicles to facilitate the fusion of the roadside data and the vehicle-side data on the vehicle. This back-and-forth communication facilitates the fusion of roadside data and car data.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. Earlier post.) 1,500,000. U Mass Amherst.

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