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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Beam Suntory, Inc.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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Wires have a lot going for them when it comes to moving electric power around, but they have their drawbacks too. Who, after all, hasn’t tired of having to plug in and unplug their phone and other rechargeable gizmos? Indeed, it’s hard to recharge or power a device when the air gap is just a few centimeters, much less a few meters.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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If successful, commercial availability of this Li-metal/glass electrode will allow for highly energy-dense rechargeable batteries of over 1000 watt-hours per liter and 400 watt-hours per kilogram. University of Colorado Boulder. Colorado School of Mines. grid, transforming domestic energy production. Lead organization.

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. project, QM Power and its team will develop a motor that uses. delivers more power than many vehicle motors with greater. This metal composite magnet design contains.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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The revised Think from Think Global has emerged as popular in Europe with a more stylish design than the earlier iteration. It features ABS brakes, dual airbags, and is designed to meet all European and U.S. The electricity for recharging has to come from somewhere, which means power plants. safety requirements.