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DOE Selects 42 University-Led Nuclear Research and Development Projects for $38 Million in Funding

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California State University, Long Beach - $1,390,252. Pennsylvania State University - $1,377,444. The goal of this research area is to research and develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that will produce more energy and create less waste. Pennsylvania State University - $1,000,000. Clemson University - $614,690.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. The Pennsylvania State University. 10,000,000.

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ARPA-E awards $32M to 10 new projects to improve connected and automated vehicle efficiency

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The Pennsylvania State University. University of California, Berkeley. The University of California, Riverside. Since stop-and-go operation wastes a large amount of energy, optimizing these maneuvers for an urban transit bus presents significant opportunities for improving energy efficiency. 2,800,000.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000. Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Michigan: $2,200,000.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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ARPA-E announces $36M for high-temperature materials projects

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Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. University of California-Los Angeles. The waste heat from the device can be harvested for residential heating.

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DOE awards $54M to 13 projects for transformational manufacturing technologies and materials; top two awards go to carbon fiber materials and electrodes for next-gen batteries

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This system will use waste heat to treat a wide variety of waste streams at manufacturing facilities. process will reuse more than 50% of the facilities’ wastewater, decrease wastewater discharge, and recover significant amounts of industrial waste. Technology; University of California Santa Barbara; and The Pennsylvania State.