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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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UNO MK3 allows CO 2 to be withdrawn and stored as solid potassium bicarbonate during high energy demand, eliminating stripper energy and enabling profitable regeneration. Synergistic Heat Pumped Thermal Storage and Flexible Carbon Capture System - $1,000,000. Colorado State University. Georgia Institute of Technology.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Number one?

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Harvard, Univ.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. No mechanical energy storage, parallel springs etc—it’s not going to be efficient unless they change that. Kate Darling.

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White House announces new commitments in support of Materials Genome Initiative

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Georgia Tech is launching a new Institute for Materials (IMat), an interdisciplinary research institute designed to foster a materials innovation ecosystem for research and education. million new materials for clean energy. MIT launching MOOC on innovation and commercialization of materials technologies.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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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. Such natural gas contains energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. operates at room temperature, is more energy efficient, and less. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Transportation Energy Storage.

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