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DECEMBER 12, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $7 million to fund four 3-year projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel-cell-electric vehicles. University of Oregon, up to $2.0 The selected organizations will provide close to $2 million in cost share.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Managed by the Energy Department’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, the new projects will build on that success by researching alternative methods of extraction and the potential for commercialization, as well as the environmental impact of natural gas extraction from hydrate formations. The University of Texas at Austin.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment. The selected university members all have nationally recognized collegiate environmental and aviation-related education programs.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

X-energy—partnering with BWX Technology, Oregon State University, Teledyne-Brown Engineering, SGL Group, Idaho National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory—will solve design and fuel development challenges of the Xe-100 Pebble Bed Advanced Reactor.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

It’s almost 100% recyclable, but in commercial use is a fairly modern metal. The research was made possible, in part, by collaboration between chemists at OSU and the University of Oregon, through the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. Aqueous aluminum plays significant roles in soil chemistry and plant growth.

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APRIL 13, 2016

The 2016 SAE World Congress is again featuring a technical track (PFL 720) on advances in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology, followed by a technical expert panel discussion (PFL 799) on the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen infrastructure. Earlier post.). Donald Anton, Bruce Hardy, Savannah River National Laboratory.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. University of Utah, “Entrained-Flow Biomass Gasification with Syngas Fermentation for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels” $2,000,000.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

PGE is partnering with state and local government, higher education, the automobile industry, and businesses to expand the electric vehicle infrastructure in Oregon. Ford will draw upon PGE’s partnership with Portland State University to further study urban mobility and the integration of energy and sustainable design.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. The integrated design, development, and production of highly complex systems, leveraging software, can speed ideas from the lab into commercial production, reduce costs, and shorten production lifecycles.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Seattle, Washington-based EnerG2 , a seven-year-old company focused on introducing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage, broke ground on its first facility dedicated to the commercial-scale production of synthetic high-performance carbon electrode material for use in ultracapacitor energy storage devices.

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AUGUST 31, 2012

University of California at San Diego. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego will design, build, and test an electromagnetic (EM) system designed for very shallow water use and will apply the system to determine the extent of offshore permafrost on the US Beaufort inner shelf. University of Mississippi.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

This data will help the FAA to develop regulations and operational procedures for future commercial and civil use of the National Airspace System (NAS). On 14 Februar 2013, the agency solicited proposals from public entities, including state and local governments and eligible universities interested in operating the test sites.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

ZeaChem says its role in the USDA project is the logical progression of its phased development strategy, in which it researches and develops saleable products at each step toward commercialization. In January, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a conditional loan guarantee commitment in the amount of $232.5 Earlier post. ).

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JUNE 21, 2016

Texas A&M University will lead the Gulf Coast center—a region anchored in the chemical, oil and gas sectors—and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will lead the Northeast center, where glass, ceramic and microelectronic manufacturing has a strong presence. Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oregon State U.; West Virginia U.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Each year, pests cause many millions of dollars in damage to homes and commercial buildings. The company was started by University of Oregon Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship MBA students participating in PNNL’s University Technology Entrepreneurship Program.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

SuperTruck II builds on the successful SuperTruck I program, which has already led to more than twenty fuel saving technologies that have reached the commercial market, said Acting Assistant Secretary David Friedman. Drive Oregon. Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh. Description.

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MARCH 27, 2013

In developing the Carbon Technology platform, EnerG2—through rapid iteration of carbon morphologies and allotropes—identified the structural characteristics that are the most important to different electrochemical storage systems, and the means to produce them at a commercial scale.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A University of Washington team is trying to make poplar an economically viable biofuel feedstock by testing the production of younger poplar trees that could be harvested more frequently—after only two or three years—instead of the usual 10- to 20-year cycle. Chang Dou/University of Washington. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Other components, due to regulatory or economic barriers, may not be commercially viable in the near future. Lightweighting: MSI-ACPT, Maxion Inmagusa, Oregon State University, Strick, Toray.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The award is a portion of a $40-million grant presented to the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance ( NARA ), a consortium led by Washington State University (WSU). NARA includes a broad consortium of scientists from universities, government laboratories and private industry. Earlier post.). NARA award. DLA contract.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. This project will be the first commercial deployment of articulated fuel cell buses in the US. Oregon Department of Transportation.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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JULY 9, 2009

The 23-foot gasoline-electric hybrid buses—a size smaller than heavy urban transit buses—are part of a national pilot program to speed commercialization of these vehicles, which are expected to yield 30% to 40% reductions in fuel use with an accompanying 30% reduction in emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This project will develop and test a new low-head modular hydropower technology in a canal in Oregon's North Unit Irrigation District to produce cost-competitive electricity. New Mexico State University. The project will support commercialization of the generator. Regents of the University of Minnesota. Earth by Design.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

The governors of 8 states—California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—have signed a memorandum of understanding ( MoU ) to take specific actions to put 3.3

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. And Oregon is pretty transparent. But those models were entirely proprietary.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The state of Oregon conducted a similar study completed in November 2007 and Iowa, Nevada and Texas are among several states currently researching mileage-based user fees. million project that will use commercial off-the-shelf technology to determine the feasibility of a mileage-based user fee.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

BCAP, created in the 2008 Farm Bill, helps farmers and forest land owners with start-up costs of planting new energy crops that can take several years to reach maturity until harvest, a timeline designed to parallel the construction schedule of commercial-scale energy facilities that will use these crops.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gases into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the help of partners at Oregon State University and the carbon-recycling experts at LanzaTech. Image: Oregon State University).

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V)

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

However, the fundamental question regarding how to implement the concept of LCE in large-dimension catalysts (that is, nanomaterials and commercially available materials) is still unset-tled. If this is successful, we can deliver a device for commercialization in five years. —Chang et al.

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JULY 23, 2009

Commercial development of this technology by a tire manufacturer could be undertaken at any time, he said. However, at high temperatures such as in summer, the partial replacement of silica decreased the rolling resistance of the product, which would improve fuel efficiency of rubber tires made with the new approach.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Project Get Ready will collaborate with targeted communities that have started convening local players to develop and implement plug-in adoption plans, utilizing what RMI calls its “ universally recognized convening power ”, as well as technical analysis. Barrier: How can we manage this as a multi-sector, city-wide project?

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JULY 20, 2021

The recent record-breaking heat in Oregon and Washington state, for example, claimed more than 200 lives. The pandemic created a work-at-home paradigm that shifted electricity usage away from commercial buildings to residential neighborhoods, in ways that few expected and fewer planned for. COVID-19 changed all that. YURY DVORKIN/NYU.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

So, after DRC ended in 2015 with several of the robots successfully completing the entire final scenario, the obvious question was: When would humanoid robots make the transition from research project to a commercial product? A menagerie of humanoids Agility is not alone in its goal to commercially deploy bipedal robots in 2024.

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