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New process reduces palladium loading by 60% to reduce costs for direct alcohol fuel cells

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Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have developed a new and significantly cheaper method of manufacturing direct alcohol fuel cells (DAFCs) fuel cells by preparing a palladium nanoparticle catalyst using atomic layer deposition (ALD). This ALD method for manufacturing fuel cells requires 60% less catalyst than current methods.

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Europe Gets an Exascale Supercomputer

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The European Union–backed high-performance computing arm, EuroHPC JU , is underwriting half the cost of the new exascale machine. JUPITER will rely on GPU-based accelerators alongside a universal cluster module, which will contain CPUs. We will resolve the world much better,” he says. LUMI is currently ranked third in the world. “The

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European Commission approves up to €5.4B of public support for IPCEI Hy2Tech; 41 hydrogen projects

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The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Johnson Matthey-led consortium to develop advanced automotive fuel cells in €7M EU-funded INSPIRE; BMW Group

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million) EU-funded project INSPIRE (Integration Of Novel Stack Components For Performance, Improved Durability And Lower Cost). W/cm 2 at 0.6V, less than 10% power degradation after 6,000 hours, and with a technical and economic assessment showing a cost of less than €50/kW (US$57/KW) at a 50,000 annual production scale.

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Ricardo investigating potential for its split-cycle engine in large engine market

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In a poster-session paper presented at CIMAC Congress 2016 in Finland, Ricardo described the use of this split-cycle concept in high- and medium-speed engines for power generation to achieve efficiencies of 60% from units of 1–30 MW mechanical output. Ricardo says that its split cycle technology also has the potential to achieve circa.

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VTT Launches European NEMO Project for Cellulosic Ethanol

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Total cost of the project will be €8.2 NEMO will focus on novel enzymes for hydrolysis and novel microorganisms for cellulosic ethanol production to identify the most eco-efficient and economic process options for cellulosic ethanol. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. million (US$8.4 million (US$11.7

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Can Electronics Become Compostable?

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Sustainable electronics is becoming an increasingly important topic around the world, and today we’re going to be talking with Liisa Hakola , a senior scientist at VTT in Finland , about the European Union’s Sustronics program aimed at this very topic. It’s just a cost of doing business. But of course, I come from Finland.

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