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DECEMBER 28, 2011

IBM and the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) in Mexico have created a Smarter Cities Exploration Center. The University will foster the assimilation of high-level competencies and expertise by its doctoral students and researchers, to support efforts designed to tackle issues that have a high social and economic impact for Latin America.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

All-solid-state lithium batteries could address a number of the shortcomings of conventional lithium-ion batteries in advanced applications such as in electric vehicles, which demand high energy densities, fast charging, and long cycle lives. —Kobayashi et al. Shigeru Kobayashi, Elvis F. 1c17945.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

A research team from University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and Beijing Computational Science Research Center has developed an effective synthesis method to produce isolated single platinum (Pt) atoms and clusters for use as catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting to produce hydrogen.

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APRIL 27, 2020

A comprehensive three-year scientific study into the air, water and soil impacts of hydraulic fracturing (HF) in coal seam gas (CSG) in Queensland, Australia has found little to no impacts on air quality, soils, groundwater and waterways. CSIRO scientist sets up a solar-powered air-quality-monitoring station in the Surat Basin, Queensland.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Photoelectrical chemical cells (PECs) have the potential to produce hydrogen fuel through artificial photosynthesis, an emerging renewable energy technology that uses energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions such as splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. —Francesca Toma.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced nearly $5 million in funding across seven research projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates. In May 2012, the Energy Department, alongside its Japanese partners, announced a successful field trial of methane hydrate production technologies on Alaska’s North Slope.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. The projects aim to improve the basic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conversion and utilization, by-product utilization, and technological development for advanced energy systems.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Researchers at Changchun University of Science and Technology in China have developed a nanobox strategy to improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries. Li–S batteries theoretically offer a specific energy density of 2600 Wh kg ?1 A paper on their work appears in the Journal of Power Sources. —Song et al.

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JULY 20, 2014

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy will award $9 million over five years to organizations to assist it in building domestic and international consensus on future fossil energy technologies ( DE-FOA-0001111 ). Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Energy Systems.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected national laboratory-led projects for up to $11 million this year, as well as future years, subject to annual appropriations, under DOE’s competitive laboratory solicitation for the development of Advanced Water Power Technologies. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 19, 2020

Urban areas in developing Asian nations are home to an expanding base of energy consumers, with energy supply likely to remain carbon intensive for decades in the absence of major technological or regulatory shifts. The same household’s energy consumption was examined over time and compared with concurrent PM 2.5

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Dr. Kenneth H.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

A team from Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories, Tufts University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have now used X-ray based imaging techniques to study the inner workings of PEM fuelcell components subjected to a range of temperature and moisture conditions. —Shum et al.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have precisely characterized the electronic states of a manganese (Mn) water-splitting catalyst for artificial photosynthesis.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Researchers, led by a team from the University of Pennsylvania, have used a polymer-folding mechanism to develop a new and versatile kind of solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) that currently offers proton conductivity faster than Nafion by a factor of 2, the benchmark for fuel cell membranes. Gaines, a graduate student in his group.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 million to Stanford faculty for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency. Precourt Institute for Energy grants.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Spintronics can make them more energy-efficient, faster to access data, or capable of storing huge amounts of information. Superconductors and magnetic disk drives Parkin holds a Humboldt professorship at Martin Luther University , also in Halle. When you discover something new, you have novel insights into how the world works.”

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AUGUST 22, 2019

They promise twice the energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries with graphite anodes, so they could last longer and weigh less. Water is added to a sealed flask containing a sample of inactive lithium that formed on a cycled half-cell. Any bits of unreacted lithium metal chemically react with water to produce hydrogen gas.

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MAY 9, 2014

A team from seven US universities and the Korea Institue of Science and Technology, led by George Huber, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed an integrated catalytic process for the conversion of whole biomass into drop-in aviation fuels with maximal carbon yields.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The robot can also jump onto obstacles up to 300 millimeters high with a bistable mechanism that can gradually store but quickly release energy. The study not only proposes a solution for neural locomotion control but also enables insights into the neural equipment of the biological template. VISTEC ] Thanks, Poramate! Berkeley ]

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.

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JULY 21, 2012

Billions of barrels of oil may be potentially recoverable from residual oil zones in the US, according to initial findings from a study supported by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Residual oil zones (ROZs), are areas of immobile oil found below the oil-water contact of a reservoir.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) are awarding $8.9 New projects to be funded this year aim at enhancing productivity, yield, nutrient and water utilization, and sustainability of plant feedstocks. University of Delaware, Newark. University of Georgia, Athens. Grantee Project Project Goal.

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

In a new paper in the journal Nature Materials (in an edition focused on materials for sustainable energy), a team from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reviewed milestones in the progress of solid-state photoelectrocatalytic technologies toward delivering solar fuels and chemistry. —Montoya et al.

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JULY 20, 2011

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a new biomass pretreatment method that reorganizes the hydrogen bond network within crystalline cellulose. Credit: ACS, Chundawat et al.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The findings could help advance development of the microbial production of hydrogen from sunlight and water. Professor Fraser Armstrong, Oxford University, co-author. An international team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France have discovered how oxygen stops photosynthetic organisms such as green algae from producing hydrogen.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

A new carbon capture technology sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for economically capturing 90% of the carbon dioxide emitted from a coal-burning power plant has begun pilot-scale testing. and City Water, Light and Power. and City Water, Light and Power.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have directly probed the solid/liquid interface of the electrochemical double layer (EDL) using a novel X-ray toolkit. —Hubert Gasteiger, a chemistry professor at the Technical University of Munich.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

A team led by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced has developed an efficient molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) catalyst for driving the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The work at Sandia was funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. —Chen et al. Resources.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Anastas is currently on public service leave from Yale University, where he holds the Theresa and H. To be truly effective, EPA’s environmental research must evolve along with these new insights and be as dynamic as the challenges it aims to inform. Safe and Sustainable Water Resources (SSWR).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

GHG, criteria pollutants, energy intensity, water resources, costs, urban air quality) for future year scenarios proposed for fuels and power plants associated with both mobile and stationary sources. GHG are reduced, air quality is improved), they provide an unprecedented level of detail and insight from a planning perspective.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

succeeded in isolating the simplest CI and reported direct kinetic measurements of its reactions with water, NO, NO 2 , and SO 2. —Professor Dudley Shallcross, Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry at The University of Bristol. Criegee intermediates (CIs) play a central role in the formation of numerous atmospheric compounds.

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JUNE 15, 2016

In the past 16 months, the company has conducted more than 30 global mobility experiments to gain insight into changing consumer transportation preferences. million on a state-of-the-art facility at the University of Michigan to boost research and development of advanced battery technology. Investing $4.5 Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MARCH 14, 2016

All that information and insight only represents the collective learnings of those projects that received federal financial assistance from DOE, BETO said. BETO is seeking information on technical challenges that have hindered, or could in the future hinder, the achievement of reliable continuous operations.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

While these remain laboratory-scale experiments, researchers can extrapolate from them to gain insights into how methane cracking could be integrated into the energy system and, more specifically, what its contribution to sustainability could be. —Professor Carlo Rubbia.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems. Further, the system was designed for one-way power, not for distributed renewable-energy devices sending power back into the system. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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