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JULY 14, 2016

The University of Nottingham (UK) is leading a 3-year, £830,000 (US$1.1-million) This is critical as manufacturers race to meet higher fuel-efficiency standards and cut the cost of in-car electrics, which currently make up 45% of costs in modern hybrid cars.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Department of Energy national lab operated by Stanford University. In some ways, it’s a simple concept, but it requires excellence in RF design, manufacturing, vacuum science, electron emission, and thermal management to make it all work.” From those discussions, she found that lowering the price was key.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Projects from this solicitation, which will be implemented over the next 1–3 years, will focus on lowering the cost of heliostats and heliostat technologies and creating new market opportunities for the heliostat industry. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential. Digital Twin and Industry 4.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

million (US$31-million) commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life; battery modelling; recycling and reuse; and solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries (SOLBAT) , led by Prof Peter Bruce, University of Oxford, with researchers from the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield, Warwick and UCL.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For the first time, SpaceX has teamed up with researchers from NASA and several other US institutions to publicly discuss how it plans to use Starship to build Mars Base Alpha. billion NASA contract to build a human-rated Moon lander variant of Starship. In April, SpaceX also secured a $2.9 Packing for Mars.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

GTI and partners, The Ohio State University, Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC), and Trimeric Corporation (Trimeric), have been selected for award on a project to advance Ohio State’s transformational membrane technology to provide step-out reductions in CO 2 capture cost and energy penalties.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. University of Illinois. DOE funding: $741,194 Non-DOE: $188,333 Total: $929,527.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. FERMI will substantially shorten the overall design cycle and reduce costs, while significantly improving accuracy.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Fusion energy technology holds great potential to be a safe, clean, reliable energy source, but research and development of fusion technology is often constrained by prohibitive costs. However, there remains a need to lower the costs of fusion development and accelerate its development timeline to have appreciable impact.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. The company says that its design has the potential to exceed both lithium-ion and rest-of-market sodium-ion technologies on all performance measures, and at a cost of less than $50/kWh.

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JUNE 4, 2018

MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. As utilities have begun retiring older plants, however, comparatively high costs have made it difficult to justify building new nuclear power plants. GW by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2017

The California Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board released the annual Joint Agency Staff Report on Assembly Bill 8: 2016 Assessment of Time and Cost Needed to Attain 100 Hydrogen Refueling Stations in California. million for infrastructure for 50 stations—the total cumulative cost is estimated at $225 million.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and its partners will develop a cost-effective and efficient smart structural coating deposition system and advanced high-end technology tools to inspect and rehabilitate gas distribution pipelines. University of Colorado, Boulder. University of Maryland. Carnegie Mellon University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with experts from industry and academia, have developed predictive engineering tools for designing new, economical, and lightweight automotive composites. This approach should speed the development of more economical carbon fiber materials.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

and Purdue University, has launched the first project selected with a dual focus on decreasing the cost of manufacture and increasing design flexibility for automotive composites. Multiple factors, including cost and design constraints, present barriers to the adoption of composites in high volume automotive applications.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. Membrane Technology and Research (MTR) Inc.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

University chapters are the lifeblood of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu , the organization’s honor society. There are 269 chapters at universities worldwide. Support provided by universities to chapters varies widely, however—which can limit activities. A strong chapter helps ensure that members have a fulfilling experience.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

With more than 500 components, and a multitude of custom-built systems including intricate wiring harnesses, DC fast charging systems, control software, framework, and several of the high voltage HVAC components, we developed the powertrain in less than a year, proving the value of our accelerated building-block platform.

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APRIL 30, 2022

The consortium will showcase these systems at both Damon and Moment Energy’s new facilities in Vancouver BC, demonstrating manufacturing scale-up of components, assembly systems and targeting design for a near zero waste production operation. However, the cost of producing MEAs is high and the durability is often poor.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS Phase 1 teams will design, model, and optimize CCS processes that enable flexibility on a high-VRE grid. Later in the program, teams that move to Phase 2 will focus on building components, unit operations, and prototype systems to reduce technical risks and costs. Colorado State University. 8 Rivers Capital.

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JUNE 24, 2011

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Production of Renewable Diesel, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Gasoline, and Marine Fuel from Lignocellulosic Biomass at Dramatically Improved Yield, Efficiency, and Cost”, $2,000,000. University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000.

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APRIL 20, 2022

The University of California, Riverside (UCR) provided the in-use emissions measurements, using a Portable Emissions Measurements System (PEMS). The engine installed in the Peterbilt truck and operated for the demonstration is a Gen1 design. Achates Power is also testing a Gen2 design on its transient dynamometer.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Western Michigan University (WMU) have enabled standard raised pavement markers to transmit GPS information that helps autonomous driving features function better in remote areas or in bad weather.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. University of Houston. Princeton University. Description.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In December 2013, Lomiko reported on a successful conclusion to Phase I of its Graphene Supercapacitor Project which involved Graphene Laboratories and Stony Brook University. The development will focus on large-scale devices that are projected to have the lowest cost of power and stored energy in its class. Lomiko Metals Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

The selected organizations (and project descriptions) from this first call selection are: University of Connecticut. Penn State University. The proposed idea is to build a small scale process simulator, with both machinery and software components, which mimics aspects of a smart manufacturing system for educational purposes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The project has the potential to increase solar power storage capacity and reduce electricity costs. Vojin Zivojnovic of AGGIOS, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

W/cm 2 at 0.6V, less than 10% power degradation after 6,000 hours, and with a technical and economic assessment showing a cost of less than €50/kW (US$57/KW) at a 50,000 annual production scale. The partners will select and build on components which can achieve key target metrics—e.g., DANA Holding Corp.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. Commercial trucks already have guard bars on the back to prevent such accidents, so instead of looking to improve trucks, Bayhan decided to build an attachment for cars. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit,

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

These hybrid systems leverage the infrastructure of fossil fuel plants such as turbine and transmission systems, helping to reduce the cost of solar-generated electricity and bring CSP plants online quicker. Awardees are also required to provide 75% of the total project cost.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Carbon Capture Projects: Lowering Absorption Process Uncertainty, Risks, and Costs by Predicting and Controlling Amine Degradation (LAUNCH). Process-Informed Design of Tailor-Made Sorbent Materials for Energy Efficient Carbon Capture (PrISMa). This project will result in improved reliability and lower costs of carbon storage sites.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Intel announced today that it will build two leading edge logic fabs east of Columbus at a cost of $20 billion. The latter will allow for smaller, more efficient transistors with a degree of design flexibility that can't be achieved using today's FinFET devices. Intel has chosen to expand its advanced manufacturing in a U.S.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. The group has shortlisted three designs and plan to have picked one by the end of 2024. The reactors would be small, modular units.

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JULY 2, 2023

This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Global Research will collaborate with Arizona State University (ASU) and Cornell University on the project “Improving Models of Spray Breakup in Liquid Fuels Combustion”. The supercomputer will give us a 360 degree view of the inside of the injector, so that we can better understand the physics behind the design.

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