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DOE awards $17M for vehicle technologies; batteries, PEEM, engines, materials, fuel

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30 kW Modular DC-DC System using Superjunction MOSFETs This project will develop a new modular power conversion approach that utilizes both silicon and WBG devices to address the fundamental power conversion, loss, and component stress mechanisms. University of Wisconsin - Madison. University of Colorado Boulder. 1,988,042.

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

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Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. This project will develop a novel low cost route to carbon fiber using a lignin/PAN hybrid precursor and carbon fiber conversion technologies leading to high performance, low-cost carbon fiber. Plasan Carbon Composites. 1,500,000. .

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ARPA-E to award $22M to 18 projects to accelerate production of macroalgae for energy and other uses; MARINER

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Development of Techniques for Tropical Seaweed Cultivation The Marine Biological Laboratory team will focus on the development of a cultivation system for the tropical seaweed Eucheuma isiforme for the production of biomass for conversion to biofuels. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Milwaukee, WI. Category V MARINER Projects.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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He was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and Rockwell International, and holds a Ph.D. Some examples are the use of fiberglass, carbon fiber and Kevlar substituting for wood and metal in vehicle parts, appliances and furniture products. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop.

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