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ORNL, HTS International to collaborate on manufacturing research; conformal cooling

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HTS International Corporation and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have signed an agreement to explore potential collaborations in advanced manufacturing research such as in conformal cooling. The iMFT process to produces parts designed using its innovative Thermal Management Solutions (iTherm).

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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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It’s pretty nasty,” says Michael Bender, the international coordinator of the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG). Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. Four industry insiders ultimately confirmed that Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that utilized mercury propellant.

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TTTech using VectorCAST platform for development of Audi zFAS to ISO 26262 ASIL-D compliance; domain controller for piloted driving

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VectorCAST tools support capture and reporting of structural code coverage for all Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL) required by ISO 26262—an international standard for the functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems in production automobiles. —William McCaffrey, chief operating officer of Vector Software.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. SRI International.

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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.

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Neuroscientist or cinematographer Programs he helped develop include the Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index, the MOtion-tuned Video Integrity Evaluation ( MOVIE ) index, visual information fidelity algorithms, and the Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion ( VMAF ) metric. 264 video coding reference software standard.