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Ford tests Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles driving in complete darkness

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As part of its LiDAR sensor development, Ford has tested Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles in complete darkness without headlights on desert roads, demonstrating the capability to perform beyond the limits of human drivers. Sure enough, it stayed precisely on track along those winding roads. LiDAR sensors shoot out 2.8

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2024

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Our readers wanted to know more about power beaming , new kinds of nuclear fusion, vertical solar farms, powerful ways to drill deeper into the Earths crust to harness geothermal energy, and grid hardware that connects renewable energy projects. It beat compressed air and four types of batteries in terms of scale, cost and suitability.

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The Inside Story of Google’s Quiet Nuclear Quest

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A Google-McKinsey study conducted as part of the project drove home the point that the intermittent power sources, solar and wind, need reliable backup. Therefore, efforts to decarbonize the grid affordably depend on what happens with always-on or always-available hydro, geothermal, and nuclear power plants.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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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 ”]. But the materials could show up sooner in a wide array of practical applications, including wind power, energy storage, and nuclear magnetic-resonance machines.

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DOE releases five-year strategic plan, 2014-2018; supporting “all of the above” energy strategy

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The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?. DOE will employ six strategies to achieve these goals.

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

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Exascale Predictive Wind Plant Flow Physics Modeling, Steve Hammond (NREL) with SNL, ORNL, University of Texas Austin. High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, University of Colorado. Dunning, Jr.

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