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U. Maryland and Redox Power partnering to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for distributed generation and transportation

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Redox Power’s 25 kW “Cube” sitting outside a conference room. The fuel cells, based upon patented technology developed by professor Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) in the A. University of Maryland Professor Eric Wachsman describes how solid oxide fuel cells work.

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OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

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The technology is enabled as OnStar receives a signal from PJM Interconnection that shows the percentage of available renewable energy on the grid. Renewables in the US grid. Demonstrations are taking place this week at the 2012 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. was conventional hydropower.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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A paper describing the basics of BChain was published in 2014 the Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. A blockchain is essentially a fault-tolerant, decentralized collection of records, or blocks, that are connected and secured by cryptography. —Duan et al.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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An old-fashioned triode vacuum tube does that using a voltage applied to its grid electrode. Naval Ordnance Laboratory , in Maryland, had figured out how to manufacture this alloy, which was soon marketed by an outfit called Arnold Engineering Co. As late as 1957, more than 400 engineers attended a conference on magnetic amplifiers.

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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. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. Laboratory, Grid. power grid.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALEXANDER BARG University of Maryland College Park “For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.” IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL Sponsor: Qualcomm , Inc. IEEE NICK HOLONYAK, JR. IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.

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