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Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

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The funding will be used to market the company’s electric motor—the Hunstable Electric Turbine (HET)—across the electric vehicle (EV) industry as well as the micro-mobility (scooters), robotics, wind turbine and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industries. —Fred Hunstable, CTO of Linear Labs.

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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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Colorado State University will develop a novel, low-cost turbo-compression cooling system that utilizes the ultra-low-grade waste (less than 150°C) heat available in many industrial processes, the energy from which is not traditionally recovered. University of Texas at Dallas. Colorado State University. Yale University.

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GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

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This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and low cost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Bottom: C2CNT Cement wind plant: The full oxy-fuel configuration is shown. Licht (2017). Click to enlarge. —Licht (2017). Licht et al.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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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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streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. converted into a fuel mixture that is comparable to diesel or. The team will.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000. Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Treverity (Coppell, Texas).

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DOE awarding $33M for carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation

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The team will use innovative fabrication techniques for high-performance, ultra-low weight, and low-cost MS-SOFC stacks. High-Efficiency and Low-Carbon Energy Storage and Power Generation System for Electric Aviation; $2,131,246. They will also develop reforming catalysts for synfuel and biojet fuel. Fuceltech Inc.

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