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The research projects, conducted in partnership with private industry, national laboratories and universities, support the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, a collaborative national effort to make solar power cost-competitive with traditional energy sources by the end of the decade. CSP awards. Click to enlarge. Competition.
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Innovative heat exchanger technology will improve efficiency and cut cost dramatically. Eaton will collaborate with the University of Minnesota on thermodynamic analysis and modeling to enable the efficient transfer of heat in the compression process. Current natural gas refueling systems cost between $5,000 and $10,000.
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An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. A paper on the work is published in Nature. Sadoway is formally the Chief Scientific Advisor.
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—co-author Guojun He, research director at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago in China (EPIC China) and a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. —co-author Shaoda Wang, a postdoctoral scholar at EPIC and incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
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Department of Energy national lab operated by Stanford University. Our ultimate goal is to be part of the terrestrial market such that the amplifiers are installed on cellphone towers, enabling high-data-rate communication in remote and rural locations all over the world.”
Cost of the new engine relative to gasoline baseline. The technical focus over the last year has been on new engine installation and performance assessments. However, he added, the internal goal is “ significantly higher, ” and is targeting the GHG limit. Source: Cummins. Click to enlarge.
The Environmentally Friendly Inter-City Aircraft powered by Fuel Cells (ENFICA-FC) project, led by Turin Polytechnic University, is ready for flight-testing its fuel-cell powered, manned inter-city aircraft. University of Pisa (IT) (laboratory tests on the electric system). The overall cost of the project is €4.5 Earlier post.).
The new awards are the second installment of projects awarded under CCPI Round III. The Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas will design and assure compliance with a state-of-the-art CO 2 sequestration monitoring, verification and accounting program. Earlier post.).
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A consortium brought together by low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK launched the first bus in the UK to run on biomethane gas. In particular, the cost of conversion of a diesel bus to dual-fuel use is a small fraction of the cost of a new natural gas bus. Biomethane bus. Click to enlarge.
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