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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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Georgia Institute of Technology. Advanced Sensing for Characterization and Sorting of Non-Recyclable Plastics Using Sensor Fusion with Artificial Intelligence. Microchannel Reactor for Ethanol to n-Butene Conversion. Research Triangle Institute. Integrated Separations to Improve Biocrude Recovery for Biofuels and Bioproducts.

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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. Louis , Mo.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, University of Colorado. Cloud-Resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth's Water Cycle, Mark Taylor (SNL) with ANL, LANL, LLNL, ORNL, PNNL, UCI, CSU. Dunning, Jr.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. of Georgia). per gallon. The project also will develop a chemical method to transform butanol into jet fuel. Harvard, Univ. of Delaware). NC State University. Research Triangle Institute.

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Ford MyEnergi Lifestyle collaboration to demonstrate integration of home appliance technology, plug-in vehicle and renewable energy source; Georgia Tech model predicts 60% cut in home energy costs

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Ford and its business associates worked with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology to create a computer model that calculates the electricity usage of a typical single family in their home for one year and the associated savings with moving to an energy-efficient lifestyle.

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ARPA-E announces $36M for high-temperature materials projects

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Missouri S&T will combine a novel additive manufacturing technique, called ceramic on-demand extrusion, and ceramic fusion welding techniques to manufacture very high temperature heat exchangers for power cycles with intense heat sources.

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Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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greater investment in technologies that are either more nascent or have had trouble getting off the ground, including: nuclear fusion, a long-held dream that is just this side of physically impossible but that would simultaneously be far safer and more powerful than the nuclear fission approach that’s been used to date.