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Welcome to Fusion City, USA

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But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Fission waste by-products need to be disposed of safely, and they remain radioactive for thousands of years. Among those interested parties is NASA. percent efficiency.

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DOE selects 13 HPC4Mfg projects to advance applied science and technology in manufacturing; aluminum rolling and solid-state batteries

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Because light-weight materials are fuel efficient, aluminum, already well-established in the aerospace industry, is gaining significantly in the automotive industry and other markets. 3M - This project will minimize energy consumption of the fiber spinning manufacturing process using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and machine learning.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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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. Colorado State University.

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$90M UR:BAN research initiative presenting results on ADAS and traffic management for cities; intelligent vehicles

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The active accelerator pedal gives the driver direct tactile feedback on whether the driver should accelerate or brake, e.g. when approaching a traffic light. It supports the driver with optimal driving maneuvers and simultaneously enables improved traffic light switching by routing vehicle information.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. Fusion Petroleum Technologies intends to develop seismic data software to complement existing software. A differential absorption light detection and ranging (lidar) instrument will be built to scan across a field test area to determine possible CO 2 leakage to the atmosphere.

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DOE seeking comment on draft $50M solicitation for new projects over 11 areas of interest to improve vehicle performance and decrease fuel consumption

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The objective of this AOI is to develop and demonstrate the capability of multi-material joining techniques for aluminum to advanced steel for light-duty vehicle body-in-white (BIW) joints. for high-energy batteries for use in PHEV40 (PHEVs with a 40 mile all electric range) and EV light-duty vehicles.

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