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ARPA-E awarding up to $24M to 10 projects to support advanced nuclear power plants

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MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Ability Hand is also water-resistant, Akhtar says. and a Ph.D.

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DOE awarding $12.5M to nuclear energy projects, training

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wall connection strategies, and evaluate their. the cost of electricity production in both nuclear. water reactors. composites will decrease costs and increase the. efficiency of both light water reactors and. wiring and cables used in nuclear reactors, decreasing costs and increasing performance.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Demonstrate a prototype flow battery system that can be grid connected, charged and discharged, and scaled to utility power levels. Beacon Power 20MW Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant. 24,063,978. 48,127,957.

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Cray unveils 100 petaflop XC30 supercomputer

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A single Aries system-on-a-chip device provides network connectivity for the four nodes on a Cray XC blade. Source: Cray. Click to enlarge. The Cray XC30 supercomputer also advances Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision, which aims to boost application performance for their customers by exploiting hybrid processing.

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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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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. And I think we could make one for a cost of maybe at at really high scale of about $10,000. That is why we sourced responsibly.

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