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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains. and its environs.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. But solar is just the opening gambit. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons?

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NCSU team develops catalyst for thermal hybrid water-splitting and syngas generation with exceptional conversion; H2 gas and liquid fuels

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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a highly effective new perovskite-promoted iron oxide redox catalyst for a hybrid solar-redox scheme they had proposed earlier for partial oxidation and water-splitting of methane. This process “reduces” the composite particles, stripping them of oxygen.

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Punching above its weight

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If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.”

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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the Environment. includes Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, will provide first. North Carolina State. University, North. Carolina Solar Center. The Alternative Fuel Implementation Team (AFIT) for North Carolina project. petroleum reduction strategies. Center for.

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ARPA-E awarding up to $24M to 10 projects to support advanced nuclear power plants

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A quantitative assessment will be done on the continuous load following capability of the proposed system that would be capable of sharing the grid with substantial renewable resources such as wind and solar. North Carolina State University: Development of a Nearly Autonomous Management and Control System for Advanced Reactors – $3,386,834.

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Sandia, ASU collaborate on algae computational modeling, look for algae pond predators

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The work is part of a newly signed Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between ASU and Sandia to collaborate on algae-based biofuels, solar fuels, concentrating solar technologies, photovoltaics, electric grid modernization and the energy-water nexus.

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