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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. UNIGRID LLC is developing a low-cost, safe and sustainable battery for electrical grid storage to solve peak demand, renewable energy storage and power disruption problems during emergencies.

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

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“We confirmed 100 days durability, which is one of the longest periods among experimentally confirmed PEC water splitting materials,” says Masashi Kato , a professor of electrical and mechanical engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology. Devices aren’t cheap, efficient, or durable enough yet to move out of the lab. .

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