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BASF announces winners of the open innovation contest on energy storage

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A novel rechargeable zinc battery from the research group of Professors Paul Wright and James Evans from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Patrik Johansson from the Chalmers University suggests the usd of abundant aluminum for a sustainable battery technology that directly addresses the need of low-cost concepts.

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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy

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Investigators: Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering; Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering. Photo-electrochemically rechargeable zinc-air batteries. The mineral perovskite is a promising, low-cost material for enhancing the efficiency of silicon solar cells. efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells.

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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. Novozymes North America (Franklinton, North Carolina). Caltrode, Inc. Tucson, Arizona).

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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). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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