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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The program provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and up to $50,000 for modeling concepts. billion in follow-on investment.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

million) in grants to 16 collaborative research and development projects that focus on achieving significant cuts in CO 2 emissions for vehicle-centric technologies in low carbon vehicles. Low Cost, Scalable Low Rare Earth Electric Motor. Light weight Future Truck Chassis Concept. Light and Sound (LANDS).

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JUNE 24, 2020

Based on the results reported in a paper in the journal Nature Energy , the design concept provides a promising path to high-energy, long-cycling Li metal batteries, the researchers said. Furthermore, the 1 M LiFSI/FDMB electrolyte is less flammable than commercial electrolytes and can be synthesized at large scale with low cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Area of Interest 1: Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program Topic 1: Low Cost, High-Throughput Electrolyzer Manufacturing: Research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) that accelerates manufacturing innovations, so that electrolyzer stack manufacturers can achieve greater economies of scale.

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APRIL 9, 2013

Concept of valve implementation on 4-cylinder head. Source: LaunchPoint. Click to enlarge. LaunchPoint Technologies, Inc. LaunchPoint Technologies, Inc. Phase I of the project (NSF SBIR Award No. IIP- 0945595 ) demonstrated a compact, linear-motion actuator capable of driving a typical engine valve.

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JULY 13, 2010

HRL Laboratories and its partners GM, Va Polytech, ORNL, Teledyne will receive $5,058,803 to develop efficient, compact, and low-cost battery chargers for electric cars. For this round, ARPA-E received 529 initial concept papers and encouraged approximately 164 applicants to submit full applications.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Detailed analytical tools, such as computational fluid dynamics, become attractive to reduce the number of probable injector concepts for a given combustion system. ALCC grants one year awards. In 2013, 39 ALCC awards were granted, amounting to 1.8 —Sreekanth Pannala, ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 The seed funding supports early work on concepts that have the potential for very high impact on energy production and use.

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MAY 19, 2017

They are among the first awardees to move forward following the Department’s review of all taxpayer funded grants and projects, intended to ensure that each award applied good governance principles consistent with the new Administration’s policy directives.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Companies that had previously received DOE SBIR or STTR funding were eligible to apply for the Phase III grants. TDA Research will demonstrate a low-cost, high-capacity sorbent that can remove both hydrogen sulfide and organic sulfur species from biogas, reducing their concentration to the parts per billion level.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The remaining projects are from PIER’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. The program provides money to small businesses, non-profits, individuals and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. These grants are capped at $95,000.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

million grant to support the project’s development. In February of this year, the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) prepared a report for PERC analyzing the viability of the concept of synthetic and/or. provides a pathway for LPG production if low-cost DME is available in specific locations, and. infrastructures (e.g.,

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APRIL 30, 2010

More than 540 initial concept papers were received in the three focus areas. The grants will go to projects in 17 states. The project also includes innovative concepts for engineering microbial fuel cells and bioreactor systems. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. 1,500,000. U Mass Amherst. UCSD, Genomatica).

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JANUARY 19, 2015

To further enhance this effect, they proposed a layered reverse-flow reactor concept. Using this concept, they achieved more than 77% steam to hydrogen conversion is achieved at 930 °C—15% higher than the maximum conversion predicted by the second law for unpromoted iron (oxides). —Feng He, lead author. —Feng He.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Preliminary analysis performed by the national laboratories on the H2@Scale concept indicated that nearly a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is possible by 2050 via such large-scale hydrogen production and use. The H2@Scale concept has been built with participation from several national laboratories. Example H2@Scale Topics.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Some specific improvements which are of interest, but are not limited to, include: new low-cost materials, improvements in manufacturing processes, speed or yield, improved cell/pack design minimizing inactive material, significant improvement in specific energy (Wh/kg) or energy density (Wh/L), and improved safety.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. The company has secured some DOE research grants and is now focused on raising money from investors.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

NELLHI combined European know-how in single cells, coatings, sealing, and stack design to produce a novel high-performance 1 kW SOFC stack along with with the proof of concept of a 10 kW e SOFC stack. The project found its stacks were “ready for integration in any clean power-generating system and implementation in the energy market.”

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Nano One produces low-cost high-performance energy storage materials for batteries as well as a wide range of advanced nanostructured composite materials. The pilot uses equipment common to industry and is designed with flexibility to demonstrate a variety of processing concepts and chemistries.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, many of the early concepts for windows, menus, icons, and mice were arduously researched at Xerox Corp.’s From the Alto’s concepts, starting in 1975, Xerox’s System Development Department then developed the Star and introduced it in 1981—the first such user-friendly machine sold to the public.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Just last year, a half dozen precisely targeted malicious drones managed to slow oil production in Saudi Arabia for days, and more recently, several low-cost drones caused significant damage to oil tankers in the UAE. The fundamental concept is to never trust and always verify the provenance of each request.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

With the support of a 2015 National Science Foundation grant, the Sounds Of New York City (SONYC) project was founded to build and deploy noise sensors, working in collaboration with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection , the city agency tasked with enforcing the noise code.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Besides creating new possibilities in the field of autonomous machines, he is making robots accessible to more researchers with the Solo 8 and 12 projects, a low-cost, open source alternative to prohibitively expensive quadruped robots. We share grant money, we’re all on each other's PhD students committees.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

million grant from the DOE, has developed a solution. Antoni Tong: Some of them want a proof of concept on their batteries. They have incentives to see cost differences, should policy come that makes them responsible for battery packs that are in their vehicles or creating an internal application ecosystem for their battery packs.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. million US Department of Energy grant to advance next-generation, energy-efficient manufacturing processes.

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APRIL 21, 2025

Over the next several years, he and his team created a wide variety of proof-of-concept chips demonstrating the key building blocks of high-performance digital modems. Broadcom wasnt the only company chasing the low-cost digital modem grail. to commercialize the technology. Broadcom created an industry.

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JULY 17, 2015

Another strikingly different concept evidenced by the PHEV is that it is essentially a large, portable battery that can store energy gathered during one part of the day, and then use it later to power not only itself but also the vehicle owner’s home. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention.

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JULY 14, 2015

Algenol is also working with PNNL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Georgia Tech on development of higher-value green chemical production concepts. This innovative low-cost process could result in a sizeable increase in the production of plant-based chemicals and fuels, and reduce the dependence on petroleum fuels.

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JULY 2, 2023

make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. Raskin as “the man who’s going to design your Macintosh.”

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JUNE 9, 2021

However, the search for low-cost production, combined with the effective industrial policy of key nations, has led to geographic concentrations of key supply chains in a few nations, increasing vulnerabilities for United States and global producers. Geographic concentration in global sourcing.

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