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DOE to award Thar Energy $9.4M to help advance more efficient supercritical-CO2-based power cycles

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The focus of the program is to evaluate, advance, and demonstrate recuperator concepts, materials, and fabrication methods that facilitate the commercial availability of compact, low-cost recuperators for use under Brayton cycle conditions. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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Georgia Institute of Technology. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) will develop a modular direct air capture (DAC) process to be integrated with flexible natural gas-fired combined cycle (NGCC) power plants. Positive Power with Negative Emissions: Flexible NGCC Enabled by Modular Direct Air Capture - $1,009,210.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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DOE awards ~$25M to 8 projects for CO2 capture and compression; $15M for novel Direct Fuel Cell system

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The novel concepts used in this project will improve the overall plant efficiency when integrated with a CO 2 capture system and can be utilized to retrofit existing coal-fired power plants. Partners are Technology Centre Mongstad, Georgia Institute of Technology, General Electric Power & Water—Purecowater, and ElectroSep Inc.

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors. The team will build an electrochemical “pump,” based on a special membrane, to remove efficiently cell-damaging CO2 from the ambient air stream without limiting system performance. Vanderbilt University.

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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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will conduct a one-year “proof-of-concept seedling” program. to demonstrate proof of concept for hydride-based thermal. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the. Georgia Tech Research. Georgia Institute of. Georgia Tech/NEETRAC, Carnegie Mellon. nuclear applications. energy storage (TES).

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

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The X Prologue will be the first Toyota EV concept released outside China. LG suggests building EV battery factory in Georgia, report says – LG Energy Solution suggested that it could build a factory in the U.S. – March 10, via Forbes. March 14, via CleanTechnica. In a letter to U.S. – March 10, Politico.

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