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Niron Magnetics secures $17.5M ARPA-E SCALEUP grant to boost production of FeN magnets

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Powerful permanent magnets are necessary components of electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, efficient industrial motors, and many other modern technologies essential to the clean energy transition. With demand expected to triple by 2035, shortages and price increases are also forecasted. One of the top 5 global wind turbine OEMs.

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DOE Announces More than $5M to Support Wind Energy Development

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The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $5 million to support US wind energy development. million to boost the speed and scale of midsize wind turbine technology development and deployment. million to boost the speed and scale of midsize wind turbine technology development and deployment.

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GE using Large Eddy Simulation on Sandia’s Red Mesa to lay groundwork for quieter wind turbine blades with better power yield

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Transition of flow to turbulence on a wind-turbine airfoil; isosurfaces of vorticity from a Large Eddy Simulation (LES). A 1 decibel quieter rotor design would result in a 2% increase in annual energy yield per turbine. Aeroacoustic noise is more difficult to mitigate, and is the dominant noise source on modern wind turbines.

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ABI Research forecasts more than 143M units of OSes to support software-defined cockpits to ship in 2021

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ABI Research forecasts more than 143 million operating system (OS) solutions will ship in 2021 to support the software-defined car cockpits, or automotive head units that support cluster displays and in-vehicle infotainment. Increasingly, OEMs and software companies are collaborating directly to create automotive software solutions.

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AMSC Power Electronics Support Nearly 10% of Global Wind-Generated Electricity

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American Superconductor Corporation ( AMSC ), a global power technologies company, announced in conjunction with Global Wind Day 2010 on 15 June that it has achieved a significant milestone by supporting the production of more than 15,000 megawatts (MW) of wind power worldwide with its proprietary power electronic solutions.

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SpaceX, NASA batten down the hatches as another storm approaches Florida

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Due to a combination of the storm’s quick growth and the nature of the SLS rocket, the design of which was dictated more by political expediency than rational engineering, the agency was reluctant to roll the rocket back to shelter. According to NASA, SLS is designed to withstand wind gusts as high as 137 km/h (85 mph).

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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

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.: $1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs. Geysers Power Company: $3 million to investigate if geothermal plants could vary output to balance other intermittent renewable resources to increase the amounted of wind and solar used by the grid.