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Xcel Terms First Phase of Sodium-Sulfur Battery Wind Energy Storage Test Project Successful

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Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. We have proved that this technology can perform the functions of storage that we were looking for to help us manage the variability of wind energy on our operating system.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. Before World War II, one company did attempt to manufacture a tape recorder in the U.S. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000.

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

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Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000.

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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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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Corporation, Columbia. field trials.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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economical to store or transport. The University of Minnesota will develop an ultra-thin separation. Corporation. Electron Energy Corporation will develop a technology to. Electron Energy Corporation will develop a technology to. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. Ceramatec, Inc.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia

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Bettergy Corporation. Low Temperature Ammonia Cracking Membrane Reactor for Hydrogen Generation (Category 2) The Bettergy Corporation team will develop a system to “crack,” or break apart, ammonia, releasing pure hydrogen, using a non-precious metal catalyst at temperatures below 450 °C. University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

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