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Muons and ADNA proposing using accelerator-driven subcritical reactor for heat for production of synthetic fuels and chemicals

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The type of spallation target: lead, lead– bismuth, tungsten, molten salt, etc. The nature of the cooling agent: gas, molten metal, molten salt. and Muons, is a molten-salt based ADSR that uses a linear accelerator to produce spallation neutrons. or liquid (fluorides, chlorides). Bilpuch, Calvin R.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Dennis Whyte [left], the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ CEO, Bob Mumgaard, confer in CFS’s test hall, where the startup built and tested its first magnet.

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MIT team improves liquid metal batteries for grid-scale storage; lower operating temperature, cost

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Professor Donald Sadoway and colleagues have already started a company, Ambri (initially Liquid Metal Battery Corporation), to produce electrical-grid-scale liquid batteries, which comprise layers of molten material which automatically separate due to their differing densities. Earlier post.).

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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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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. Developing Tobacco as a Platform for Foliar Synthesis of High-Density Liquid Biofuels The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its team will. develop tobacco plants with leaves that contain fuel. generation.

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