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U-M leads new DOE-funded research center for ceramic ion conductors; MUSIC

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Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells. And they’ll examine how the introduction of ceramic ion conductors impacts degradation in lithium metal, sodium metal and other solid state configurations.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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The six TERRA projects will receive a total of $30 million to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass and the 12 GENSETS projects are aimed at developing generator technologies that will improve efficiencies in residential Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation. Earlier post.)

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. DIRECT SOLAR FUELS. Biomass Energy (5 projects). DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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