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CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, has 2 -based-power-generation-project/">joined the Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) project known as STEP Demo.

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Tesla shows demo video of Optimus bot working in the Fremont Factory

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Tesla showcased two robots: one fondly called “Bumble-Cee” that’s made with off-the-shelf parts, and one that’s still under development but made with custom Tesla components like actuators. . Perhaps most interesting about the Optimus demo , however, was Elon Musk’s comments that came after.

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IPG to demo Flameless Ceramic Turbine for clean, off-grid power in EV charging

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IPG secured the £1 million as part of the Highways England (HE) and Innovate UK’s £20-million innovation call to invest in projects that can help improve air quality and operation of England’s roads.

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Rio Tinto Alma smelter site for first commercial demo of ELYSIS GHG-free aluminum smelting technology

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As part of its technology development and scale-up, ELYSIS will install industrial inert anode prototype cells at the end of an existing potline at the Alma smelter to demonstrate the technology’s effectiveness at a commercial scale in an industrial operating environment. It is also! the first technology that emits oxygen as its by-product.

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DAIHEN leverages WiTricity wireless charging technology for solar-powered mobility demo in Japan

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DAIHEN has been using WiTricity’s DRIVE 11 wireless charging system as a reference design for its own line of standards-compliant wireless chargers for battery electric and hybrid electric vehicles. DAIHEN recently launched a demonstration with Kansai Electric Power Co. human flow analysis) to create a next-generation mobility service.

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MIT proof-of-concept demo of ionic wind propulsion for aircraft

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The aircraft has no moving parts, does not depend on fossil fuels to fly, and is completely silent. Electroaerodynamics, in which electrical forces accelerate ions in a fluid, has been proposed as an alternative method of propelling aeroplanes—without moving parts, nearly silently and without combustion emissions.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. The design of rWGS reactor and the catalyst is VTT in-house know-how. The total installed power is 206.5

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