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General Fusion announces funding to build new fusion machine targeting scientific breakeven by 2026

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Canada-based General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company’s technical progress. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works. An animation showing how General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology works.

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Siemens, Duke Energy and Ford demonstrate lower cost home smart charging technology for plug-ins; due on market next year

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and utilizing a Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid, Siemens provided the first UL-approved residential electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to demonstrate the ability to monitor status, report energy use, and be controlled locally from the local area network and from the cloud. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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It refers to materials that superconduct above −195.79 °C, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. Those high magnetic fields may one day enable nuclear fusion energy, which I wrote about recently [see “ This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape ”]. High temperature” isn’t room temperature.

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Researchers using ORNL Jaguar supercomputer for simulations to develop improved gasifiers

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Multiphase refers to the process of changing a solid (in this case, coal) to a gas (syngas). The program allocates hours to large-scale, computationally-intensive research projects in a range of areas including fusion, climate, and materials. Click to enlarge. NETL funded the research.

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LCA study finds connected and automated vehicle subsystems could enable net reduction in vehicle energy use and GHGs by up to 9%

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Integrating these results with EIA reference case projections for the transportation sector produces light duty vehicle energy consumption estimates between 7,000 and 18,000 trillion Btu in 2050 compared to 16,000 trillion Btu in 2016. Click to enlarge.

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

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Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. Optimizing Stochastic Grid Dynamics at Exascale, Henry Huang (PNNL) with ANL, NREL. The awards, totaling $39.8

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DOE seeking comment on draft $50M solicitation for new projects over 11 areas of interest to improve vehicle performance and decrease fuel consumption

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Development of more established techniques such as conventional fusion welding, riveting, friction joining and ultrasonic joining is underway and not supported by this AOI; this AOI seeks to support early stage development and demonstration of completely new techniques. mm and 5 mm thick. mm and 5 mm.

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