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USABC awards Cobasys $8.4M for the development of high-energy density Li-ion cells and packs for EVs

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and Springboro, Ohio, was acquired by SB LiMotive in 2009. Bosch has extensive experience in hybrid and electric drive technology as well as power electronics, electric motors, transmissions and DC/DC converters. Cobasys, with two sites in Orion, Mich., Further, Bosch in the US is also engaging in research on the cell side as well.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Mainspring calls its machine a linear generator, because it converts linear motion into electricity. Re-Enters the Nuclear Fuel Game Uranium is enriched in centrifuge cascades, such as this one at a Centrus Energy plant in Piketon, Ohio. The Menlo Park, Calif., For Wittingham’s other complaints, you’ll have to read the article.

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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. Ohio State Univ. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity.

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DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

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The project will focus on furthering the development of Ohio State University’s coal direct chemical looping process (CDCL). The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group. Unity Power Alliance.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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He helped develop MOS analog-to-digital converters, expanding the use of the technology to industries including communications, signal processing, environmental sensing, and semiconductors. He earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1977 from MIT and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1980 from Harvard.

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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This process allows all the carbon within the sugar to be converted to FAME, which will allow these lipids—used to produce sustainable aviation jet fuel (SAF)—to be generated at lower cost and with fewer feedstock, resource, and land requirements. Ohio State University. INvizyne Technologies, Inc.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. The Ohio State University. Ultra Light-weight Bidirectional DC-DC Converters for Electric Aircraft - $1,195,345. UC Berkeley.

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