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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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And yet, until now, government and industry risk assessments about EMP attacks and their effects on the power grid have been based on oversimplified models of the solid Earth that assume zero variation in depth or composition. Landmark research, the product of collaboration between the U.S. In an interview, USGS geophysicist Jeffrey J.

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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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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 University of Illinois.

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

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Iowa State University. Iowa State University will develop a new process to create glassy solid electrolytes (GSEs) that allow for long lifecycle batteries, an important goal for the energy storage community. Pennsylvania State University. University of Colorado Boulder. Colorado School of Mines. Description.

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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma — Intelligent Casing-Intelligent Formation Telemetry System. Colorado School of Mines — Hydrate Modeling & Flow Loop Experiments for Water Continuous & Dispersed Systems. Brief descriptions of the selected projects follow: ?.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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Marquette University. Marquette University will develop a small, compact, lightweight, and efficient 1 MW battery charger for electric vehicles. The team aims to use state-of-the-art MOSFET switches based on SiC to ensure the device runs efficiently while handling very large amounts of power in a small package.

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Startups Squeeze Room-Size Optical Atomic Clocks Into a Briefcase

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Walking into Jun Ye ’s lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is a bit like walking into an electronic jungle. This is one of the world’s most precise and accurate clocks, and it’s so accurate that you’d have to wait 40 billion years—or three times the age of the universe—for it to be off by one second.

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

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. APEX Petroleum Engineering (Englewood, Colorado). Framatome Inc.