Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2023
But here, and in an even more anonymous office park nearby, startup Zap Energy is trialing a prototype reactor that is already producing high-energy neutrons from nuclear fusion—if not yet enough to send power back into the grid. Zap isn’t the only fusion company fishing in aviation’s talent pool.
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2015
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. TDA Research.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 31, 2023
Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Number one?
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2021
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Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Ford dealers will use the electricity to power their buildings, electric vehicle charging stations and lot lighting. That is enough energy to power two average-sized homes for a year or charge a Ford Focus Electric 870 times, Fusion Energi 2,600 times and C-MAX Energi 2,600 times. The Ford Store, Morgan Hill, California.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
One of these sustainable fuels is hydrogen, which can be used to store renewable energy. But the material used only absorbs UV light, which makes up less than five percent of all of the sunlight that reaches Earth. In the next stage of the project, the partners intend to improve the set-up significantly.
Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
Today, the only remaining permitted uses for mercury are in fluorescent lighting and dental amalgams, and even those are being phased out. In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States.
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