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PPPL researchers find way to build high-temperature superconducting magnets for fusion devices

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Such powerful magnets would more easily fit within the tight space inside spherical tokamaks, which are shaped more like a cored apple than the doughnut-like shape of conventional tokamaks, and are being explored as a possible design for future fusion power plants. Collage by Kiran Sudarsanan).

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Scientists suggest quantum control of atoms may make fusion energy production more efficient

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Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chile are proposing that quantum-controlled motion of nuclei, starting from the nanometer-size ground state of a molecule, can potentially overcome some of the difficulties of thermonuclear fusion by compression of a fuel pellet or in a bulk plasma.

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A Roomba for Rivers

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But few localities have the resources or political will to pay for cleanup costs. Sebastian Gollnow/Getty Images Blowin' in the Wind. Nature has crafted the spores so that they can catch a gust of wind and travel as far as a kilometer before landing and putting down roots that will eventually yield a new flower.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Ultra-Fast and - Thick Boriding of Geothermal Casing to Enhance Reliability, $150,000 Controlled Thermal Resources Inc., Localization of hot spots in solids using acoustic waves, $150,000 Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Cambridge, Mass. El Centro, Calif. Idaho National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Audi and TTTech present prototype advanced ECU for piloted driving at CES; computing capacity superior to entire current A4

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The highly integrated platform ECU zFAS is based on a complex multicore network, hosting sophisticated sensor fusion and a variety of innovative functions with multiple safety criticality levels for applications such as piloted parking or driving. Earlier post.). Our goal is leadership in piloted parking and piloted driving.

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

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Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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High Performance Computing Innovation Center opens at Lawrence Livermore; automotive and energy among industries to benefit

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Roughly 63 billion atoms were simulated on a supercomputer with more than 200,000 processors to analyze a physical phenomenon as familiar to us as the effects of wind blowing over a body of water. Click to enlarge. The center is composed of three parts. A large classroom will provide space for both on-site and distance learning.