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APRIL 8, 2009

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky (UK) and University of Louisville (U of L) are partnering with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to establish a national Battery Manufacturing R&D Center to help develop and deploy a domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

VMT Technologies, a development and licensing company headquartered at the Novell Technology Center in Provo, Utah, has received purchase orders worth up to $480 million from two EV manufacturers—Vision Motor Cars and Leo Motors—for the VMT Universal Transmission for application in their vehicles. Earlier post.).

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JULY 7, 2022

On July 5, 2022, two adjacent states had a unique relationship: they belonged to the two extreme AAA price groups, with Illinois in the highest price group and Kentucky in the lowest price group. in McCracken County, Kentucky. in McCracken County, Kentucky. The lowest prices in each county were obtained from GasBuddy.

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MAY 3, 2021

Illinois Basin (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Tennessee): Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois aims to lead a project to evaluate the domestic occurrence of strategic elements in coal, coal-based resources and waste streams from coal use. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,483,787. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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APRIL 14, 2009

The National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Batteries (NAATBatt) ( earlier post ) has selected a site in Hardin County, Kentucky to build a more than $600-million automotive lithium-ion battery plant. Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Earlier post.).

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JULY 2, 2017

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received a $1 million U.S. The center is home to the largest carbon fiber spinline at any university in North America. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber.

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Carbon Fiber Kentucky Carbon Low Cost 150

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. from coal. West Virginia. West Virginia. West Virginia. North Dakota. North Dakota. North Dakota.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Field implementation and testing of physical processing technology will occur in Kentucky, with subsequent chemical processing in Pennsylvania. The project team plans to implement and test their technology at multiple field locations in Kentucky. The University will build and test the technology in their laboratory.

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MAY 11, 2016

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Pennsylvania State University as the lead institution to establish the University Coalition for Fossil Energy Research.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

The new hub will also unite these manufacturers with research universities, such as the University of Tennessee with its pioneering 3D printed carbon fiber research, and the University of Kentucky with the largest US open-access carbon-fiber chemistry laboratory. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.;

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that start-up lithium-sulfur battery company NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies Inc. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that start-up lithium-sulfur battery company NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies Inc. NOHMs technology portfolio. Source: NOHMs.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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JULY 21, 2020

University of Kentucky. University of Virginia. University of Tennessee: Knoxville. Missouri University of Science & Technology. University of California: Irvine. Melt Spun PAN Precursor for Cost-Effective Carbon Fiber in High Pressure Compressed Gas Tankage. Hexagon R & D LLC. 3M Company. 4,043,993.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Louisville, Kentucky, might be the next city to have a tunnel built by Elon Musk’s company, The Boring Company. Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner and candidate for governor Ryan Quarles tweeted the latest work that the State Fair Board was working on. Quarles shared a screenshot of a Boring Tunnel Concept proposal for Louisville.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award two consortia—one led by the University of Michigan and one led by the West Virginia University—a total of $25 million over the next five years under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC). The announcement of another $12.5 The announcement of another $12.5

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MAY 1, 2023

2 Kentucky 143.1 Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. The table below lists the 5 states with the most emissions and the 5 states with the least emissions. The entries are on the same scale as in the table above.)

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JULY 7, 2022

Collaborating institutions include Penn State, Columbia University, Tufts University, University of Kentucky, Purdue University and industry partner Western Rare Earths. Results will expand the repertoire of REE-biomining hosts and REE-binding biomolecules.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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JULY 6, 2011

The state funding was matched by Sustainable Energy Solutions, Jiaotong University in China and the Laramie-based Western Research Institute (WRI) for a project total of $5,026,474. A $731,984 award to Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.,

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

Accordingly, there are numerous research initiatives underway, with recent reports from Japan’s AIST ( earlier post ), IBM’s Almaden Lab ( earlier post ), and the University of Dayton ( earlier post ) among them. Li-air technical barriers and needs (from the DOE report Basic Research Needs for Electrical Energy Storage ).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Validation scale field testing conducted at the Phase II Cincinnati Arch site (Duke Energy’s East Bend power station in northern Kentucky) demonstrated good injectivity into the Mount Simon Sandstone at a depth of about 3,500 feet.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The NNCI sites will provide researchers from academia, government, and companies large and small with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology. million each per year.

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JULY 23, 2014

ALMMII is a public-private partnership led by Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. The initiative is part of the National Network of Manufacturing Innovation and is being led by the Department of Defense.

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APRIL 22, 2010

3 Balance Hybrid Electric shuttle buses to the City of Paducah, Kentucky. These sales result from an existing contract with the State of Kentucky that was first announced by Azure in August, 2009. Morgan Olson will produce the bodies for these buses which were sold through Santa Margarita Ford, in California.

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MAY 6, 2011

University of Florida , Gainesville, Fla., The University will identify genetic traits in sorghum associated with drought tolerance through genetic mapping and will select strains that produce high biomass yields and can be easily converted to fermentable sugars. University of Kansas Center for Research , Lawrence, Kan.,

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The discovery was made in partnership with West Virginia University (WVU), the University of Kentucky (UK), Tetra Tech, and the XLight Corporation. A second bench-scale facility is being designed for construction by the University of North Dakota to recover REEs from lignitic material.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The design of the large pilot plant will incorporate an advanced combustion design and control features that have been verified through performance testing on the sub-pilot unit at Ohio State University and further testing on the small-scale pilot at Babcock & Wilcox. University of Illinois. University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

In announcing their partnership, FPL Group and Duke Energy called for a wide variety of organizations to commit to greening their vehicle fleets, including corporations, governments, universities and other agencies. The initiative will begin 1 Jan. 2010, when both companies will begin tracking their commitment.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 26, 2022

How do you stimulate EV adoption in rural America? How do you best implement EV charging infrastructure in rural states? How has the EV market changed in recent years in towns and small cities? How will it change in the next couple of years? One of the best people to lob these questions at is […].

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FEBRUARY 17, 2018

EPRI) will produce an engineering design and cost estimate of a membrane-based post-combustion CO 2 capture system on Duke Energy’s East Bend Station in Kentucky. University of North Dakota. DOE Funding: $1,625,244 Non-DOE: $406,485 Total: $2,031,729. DOE Funding: $2,797,961 Non-DOE: $699,500 Total Value: $3,497,461.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Ohio State University. University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The University of North Dakota. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The University of Utah. Wayne State University. Organization. Description. DOE Funding: $322,352 Non-DOE Funding: $82,617 Total Funding: $404,969.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A first academic site is now operational at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI under the coordination of Professor Nabeel A. Ionel, who held until very recently a dual appointment as Research Professor at Marquette University and Chief Engineer for Regal Beloit Corp., Mircea Popescu of MDL were key contributors for many years.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Novel Membrane and Electrodeposition-Based Separation and Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal Combustion Residues Duke University will develop and test a solvent extraction and membrane filtration process to recover and concentrate REEs from coal combustion residues originating from a variety of geographic locations within the US.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3. Sadoway is formally the Chief Scientific Advisor.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. Murray State University. Sensing and Educating the Nexus to Sustain Ecosystems (SENSE) This project expands and enhances the capabilities of Kentucky and West Virginia to study surface water, providing a foundation for understanding how agriculture and hydropower production affect water quality.

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MAY 4, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected six cost-shared University Advanced Combustion and Emissions Controls research and development projects totaling up to $13 million in DOE funding, subject to annual appropriations. The following projects were selected for award negotiation and will be cost shared at a minimum of 20%.

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