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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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Researchers will select two promising platform designs, with associated riser tensioning systems, to meet design requirements for a new above sea-level, or “dry tree,” production system and perform pre-front end engineering design (pre-FEED) equivalent engineering and cost estimates.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

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At one point they passed a fire engine, which the car’s software mistook for a mere truck: a bug, though no one was endangered. Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston. The power grid is important, maybe the most important, but it’s difficult to prove to people it’s vulnerable.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. University of Houston. Stanford University. Pratt & Whitney.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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French construction company Bouygues Immobilier is working on an office in Meudon, western Paris, which uses 4,000 square metres of solar panels to meet not only its own energy needs but also to export surplus energy back to the power grid. Are electric cars really green than combustion engine cars? — CGC 22.

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