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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 15 Phase 1 semifinalists of the American-Made Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize, a $4-million competition designed to advance technologies and techniques to support direct lithium extraction from geothermal brines. The Phase 1 semifinalists are: Boston University – Pober-Strauss.

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MAY 25, 2017

Shell has partnered with Tsinghua University since 201 to provide students with the latest knowledge in lubricants technology. Shell collaborates with top-tier universities and research institutes globally.

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JULY 7, 2023

Lightbridge Corporation, an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, announced that Texas A&M University (TAMU) has been awarded approximately $1,000,000 by the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program R&D Awards to study the deployment of advanced nuclear fuels in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Most of the materials required for batteries and other clean energy technology are dirty to mine. Nth Cycle’s technology was developed at Harvard and Yale universities. million in seed funding led by Boston-based clean energy venture capital company Clean Energy Ventures. They’re also mostly controlled by China.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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MAY 17, 2021

The team members are affiliated with an additional 16 organizations: Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System; University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez; University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; C.A. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 18, 2022

Optodot is a developer and licensor of nano-composite battery separators and infrared optical coating technologies, based in Devens, Massachusetts. Development work is also conducted at the Roll-to-Roll Fabrication and Processing core facility at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Meta Materials Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The US Department of Energy will award some $17 million in research grants to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Battery electric vehicles are only as clean as the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. The calculated relative amounts of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases from eight different energy sources are shown in the table below. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Most of the materials required for batteries and other clean energy technology are dirty to mine. Nth Cycle’s technology was developed at Harvard and Yale universities. million in seed funding led by Boston-based clean energy venture capital company Clean Energy Ventures. They’re also mostly controlled by China.

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MAY 19, 2019

NASA will provide $6 million over the course of three years to support a University Leadership Initiative (ULI) project focused on the development of a fully electric aircraft platform that uses cryogenic liquid hydrogen as an energy storage method. The two other awards are: Carnegie Mellon University.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has established the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Advisory Committee (ERAC). ERAC is a federal advisory committee whose members will report directly to the Secretary of Energy with advice on the portfolio of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $7 million to projects at eight universities to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high-performance fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission engines. University of Michigan. University of Michigan. University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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MARCH 26, 2019

In a paper in Nature Energy , the researchers report that the mechanically hard Mo 6 S 8 with fast Li-ion transport ability, high electronic conductivity, active capacity contribution and high affinity for lithium polysulfides is an ideal backbone to immobilize the sulfur species and unlock their high gravimetric capacity.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $50 million in funding for 15 projects focused on field validation and demonstration—as well as next-generation extraction, separation, and processing technologies—for critical materials. Topic 1, Area of Interest 2: Improved Beneficiation, Separation and/or Processing.

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JULY 18, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $10.9 Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Recently, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced project selections for $130 million in advanced vehicle technologies research across the United States. VTO’s Energy Efficiency Mobility Systems (EEMS) program conducts system-level research to improve mobility, affordability, and energy efficiency at the transportation system level.

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MAY 14, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $27 million in funding for 9 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear Assets (GEMINA) program. Nuclear energy is considered by many to be critical to achieving emissions reduction goals.

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MARCH 8, 2013

BASF SE has launched the “North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials—a research collaboration with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. About 20 new post-doctoral positions will be created at the three universities.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Expectations are high for a new solid state battery from Adden Energy, based on technology developed at Harvard University. The post Harvard Spinoff Lobs Solid State Battery Bomb At Fossil Fuels appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is awarding $12 million in funding for 5 projects as part of its first OPEN+ program. This first cohort will focus on ways to enable advanced nuclear energy by overcoming challenges in high performance materials science.

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JULY 17, 2020

US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced $139 million in federal funding for 55 projects across the country that will support new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies (DE-FOA-0002197, earlier post ). The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Although electrification has shown promise toward reducing the carbon footprint of passenger vehicles, aviation remains dependent on hydrocarbon fuels due to their high energy density relative to even the most advanced battery technologies available today. Stone et al.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

The A123 patents cross-licensed in this agreement are separate from the original Nanophosphate patents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which are not included as part of this settlement. The financial terms of the settlement are not being disclosed at this time.

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JULY 15, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $11.5 million in funding for 12 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. The technology uses 10-15% less energy than existing amine absorbents. Colorado State University.

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APRIL 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy announced the selections for three consortia that will make up the $125-million US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC). As part of a planned five-year initiative, the Energy Department will make $5 million available in fiscal year 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Currently, liquid products generated by electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction-reaction systems have been mixed with liquid electrolytes/soluble solutes, which requires energy- and cost-intensive separation processes to recover pure liquid fuel solutions. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor and Director of the David H.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

We hope CEPS will become the center for development of eco-friendly, safe and economically feasible all-solid-state energy storage technology. Smirnova was awarded a $60,000 NSF planning grant in January to create an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on campus.

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JULY 31, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $14.5 Many travelers’ and commuters’ transportation choices waste significant amounts of energy due to traffic complications, convenience and variability in transportation styles and preferences.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award two consortia—one led by the University of Michigan and one led by the West Virginia University—a total of $25 million over the next five years under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC). The announcement of another $12.5

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Arizona State University. High-Temperature Topping Cells from LED Materials Arizona State University will develop a solar cell that can operate efficiently at temperatures above 450°C, unlike today’s solar cells, which lose efficiency rapidly above 100°C. Arizona State University. Earlier post.). 'The Earlier post.).

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MAY 28, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected of a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for an award of up to $122 million over five years to establish and operate a new Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub. Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The following awards have been selected to receive funding: Bayesian Integration for Marine Spatial Planning and Renewable Energy Siting. The following awards have been selected to receive funding: Bayesian Integration for Marine Spatial Planning and Renewable Energy Siting.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. SLIPS Technologies develops customized, highly-repellent slippery surfaces for customers in all industries including energy, packaging, consumer, automotive and environmental. BASF Venture Capital has led a $3-million Series A financing with a $1.5 million investment in SLIPS Technologies Inc.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Factorial Energy, a Massachusetts-based developer of solid-state battery technology, announced cooperation with Hyundai Motor Co. Factorial is a company based in Woburn, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston and this is Factorial’s first large automobile strategic investment. and Kia Corp last week.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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