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DOE to Award $25M to Two Consortia for US-China Clean Energy Research with Combined Funding of $100M; Focus on EVs and Carbon Capture and Sequestration

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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

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New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production

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Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round.

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US and China Researchers Show New Approach to Hydrogen Storage; Applied Electric Field Can Significantly Improve H2 Storage and Reversibility Properties of Polarizable Substrates

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Using density functional theory, a team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University; Peking University in Beijing; and the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai has shown that an applied electric field can substantially improve the hydrogen storage properties of polarizable substrates. Click to enlarge.

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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as early as 2050 , according to a recent study by the National Security College of the Australian National University, in Canberra. Nuclear-powered submarines, such as the Virginia - class fast-attack submarine, each cost roughly US $2.8 For example, the Chinese Navy has invested in a fishlike. It may come. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. manufacturing (some of which overlaps with the EV-related aspects – more on that in a moment) appeared all but doomed earlier this summer.