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Clouds Loom Over Europe's Nuclear Titan

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Particular problems include potential tilting of the reactor buildings, and the integrity of the complex and relatively fragile steam generators for the plants pressurized, light-water reactors. And at least some Ukrainian energy experts say the country should focus instead on building smaller, decentralized power plants.

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. regulated over 95 percent of all U.S.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., Moreover, the fuel burn reduction and the ‘greening’ of the electrical power grid can produce large reductions in emissions of life cycle CO 2 and nitrous oxide. The MIT team is moving forward with work on its “double bubble” airplane design.

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ExxonMobil and Princeton select five energy research projects; including batteries and solar

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Over the past year, ExxonMobil scientists have collaborated with Princeton professors to identify areas with the most scientific potential, particularly ones that build on the university’s existing strengths and interests in emerging energy. 78 and William H.

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ChargePoint’s roadmap: EV charging 80% home/work, 20% public/fast, “virtual batteries” for utilities

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ChargePoint’s stance is bolstered by a new MIT study that suggests , in part, that electric cars that plug into the grid, could, collectively, act as a massive “virtual battery” for grid energy storage. MIT: Utilities and the virtual battery. In the power grid, supply and demand need to match exactly.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Thermal Fuel: HybriSol Hybrid nanostructures for high-energy-density solar thermal fuels Using innovative nanomaterials, MIT will develop a thermal. stores energy from the sun to be released onto the grid at a. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Metallic composites. residential and commercial buildings, where there are.

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