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JANUARY 9, 2015

In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. Doubling the length of a turbine blade can help quadruple the amount of electricity generated. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award two consortia—one led by the University of Michigan and one led by the West Virginia University—a total of $25 million over the next five years under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC). The announcement of another $12.5 The announcement of another $12.5

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. The construction process will use established and approved processes for building new manufacturing sites.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Building on this foundation, a series of small-scale field validation tests were conducted in the Phase II portion of the program (late 2005 - early 2011). EPA Region 5, and Ohio EPA to review and process three permit applications for CO 2 injection and to start building experience for future permit applications.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

Accordingly, there are numerous research initiatives underway, with recent reports from Japan’s AIST ( earlier post ), IBM’s Almaden Lab ( earlier post ), and the University of Dayton ( earlier post ) among them. Li-air technical barriers and needs (from the DOE report Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage ).

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JULY 23, 2014

ALMMII is a public-private partnership led by Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. The building will house offices, meeting rooms, training space and laboratories for developing and testing technologies for manufacturing.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The design of the large pilot plant will incorporate an advanced combustion design and control features that have been verified through performance testing on the sub-pilot unit at Ohio State University and further testing on the small-scale pilot at Babcock & Wilcox. University of Illinois. University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The NNCI sites will provide researchers from academia, government, and companies large and small with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology. million each per year.

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MAY 6, 2011

This three-year project will work to build a demonstration plant using two technologies to convert low-value byproducts and wastes from paper mills into higher-value sugar, oil, and lignin products. University of Florida , Gainesville, Fla., University of Kansas Center for Research , Lawrence, Kan., Exelus, Inc. 6,932,786.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

In announcing their partnership, FPL Group and Duke Energy called for a wide variety of organizations to commit to greening their vehicle fleets, including corporations, governments, universities and other agencies. The initiative will begin 1 Jan. 2010, when both companies will begin tracking their commitment.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Montana State University. Murray State University. Lead organization.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. But this particular salt, it happens, is very good at preventing that malfunction.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

690,000 to Carnegie-Mellon University. These algorithms will learn a task-independent vocabulary of fundamental action components, which will form the building blocks for a hierarchical activity recognition framework. 800,000 to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif. University of Miami Rosenstiel School , Miami, Fla. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas. University of Wyoming , Laramie, Wyo.

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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. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. U of Kentucky). Columbia University.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Ribeiro, all from Purdue University. The project “Lignin Deconstruction for the Production of Liquid Fuels” (0937657) will be led by Rodney Andrews, with collaboration from researchers Mark Crocker, Seth DeBolt, Mark Meier, and Samuel Morton, all from the University of Kentucky. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Based on the successful test result, the company is currently building a full-size commercial unit with a capacity of 600 gallons per minute. The prototype unit tested at the Cardinal plant was constructed by Decanter Machine Company, Johnson City, Tenn., as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. Total DOE award: $14,970,144. Total DOE award: $9,408,389.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328.

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MAY 26, 2009

Dr. Takeuchi is the Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources at the University of Buffalo, and has the distinction of being the most prolific woman inventor in the US, holding 143 patents at last count. Prior to joining the university, she spent 23 years at Greatbatch, Inc.,

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Binghamton University (State University of New York). University of Texas at Austin.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Dashed lines show US average emissions. Credit: ACS, Tessum et al. Christopher W.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The automaker has also launched a similar at-home version of the Magic Dock called the Universal Wall Connector. Tesla NACS plugs mandated by Kentucky for EV charging state program: report What are your thoughts? Let me know at zach@teslarati.com , find me on X at @zacharyvisconti , or send your tips to us at tips@teslarati.com.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. Alabama A&M University. FY2017 Low-No projects. City of Las Cruces.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. California State University Channel Islands. In Kentucky we have been busy updating all of the robots to the same standard and repairing bits of shipping damage before the Subt Final.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The next largest award, for $4 million, goes to Dresser-Rand Company to design, build, and test a pilot-scale, supersonic CO 2 compressor applicable to new and existing coal-based electric generating plants. Click to enlarge. Supersonic CO 2 compression. Partners are the Linde Group, BASF, Burns & McDonnell, and Affiliated Engineers Inc.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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JULY 19, 2024

In a mad dash to local hardware stores around Bowling Green, Kentucky, Standford’s team was able to put together and install new brake lines, but not before the morning of day three (the final day of racing). JB Straubel, Tesla’s co-founder and former CTO, participated in the Stanford solar car team during his time at the university.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics. UTRC; Wolf Robotics. Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 Indeed, new factories by Ford and GM that are being built in lower-cost, right-to-work states like Kentucky and Tennessee will be staffed by thousands of non-union workers earning significantly less than their union counterparts. billion to Rivian.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Meanwhile many Chinese automakers were pivoting to EVs, and China made no secret about nurturing strong global automakers while building out a supporting clean-energy infrastructure. According to Harvard University data, the U.S. they can’t send Chinese workers over here.” Climate Power also points to Texas as a hub for investment.

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