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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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UNO MK3 allows CO 2 to be withdrawn and stored as solid potassium bicarbonate during high energy demand, eliminating stripper energy and enabling profitable regeneration. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Next, the CO2-rich gas (>30% CO 2 ) from the calciner is separated to recover high-purity CO 2 , which can be stored.

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MIT and Lamborghini file patent on new MOF material for supercapacitors

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A collaboration between Automobili Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new MOF-based material that will serve as the foundation for a new generation of supercapacitors. The developers have filed for a patent; Automobili Lamborghini is a co-author. At MIT, the Dinc?

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Walmart’s Planned DC Fast Charging Network Could Be Game Changing

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As of April 6, 2023, using Alternative Fuel Data Center (AFDC) data, 285 Walmart/Sam’s Club stores had DC fast chargers. Target has the second most with 178, 108 less than Walmart, and convenience store chains WaWa (127) and Sheetz (91) rank third and fourth. of Electrify America’s total number of DC fast charging ports.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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As a professor and later dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he crafted incentives for professors to consult part time for business, setting in motion in the 1920s and 1930s practices now considered essential to science-based industry. And yet, Bush’s ideas about the future of information have proved prescient.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. Other partners on CloudLab include Raytheon BBN Technologies, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and US Ignite, Inc.

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With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again

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The prototype is a partial demonstration of a concept that he’s been working on for decades: a neuroprosthetic for smell. In the lab’s back room, another model shows the second half of the concept: There, the e-nose sensor transmits its signal to a small array of electrodes taken from a cochlear implant. Massachusetts Eye and Ear.

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Monthly Myth: EVs don’t work In the cold

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Similarly, in the USA there’s also been an uptick in EV sales in states like Colorado, Massachusetts, and New York, all of which have ambitious carbon-reduction goals and cold winters. This concept holds true for gas and diesel-powered vehicles too. How can this be?

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