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UTSA, SwRI collaborate to make more efficient storage materials for hydrogen

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The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Southwest Research Institute are collaborating to improve storage materials for hydrogen fuels with a hybrid metal-carbon microstructure that combines both chemical and physical hydrogen storage mechanisms. This process uses less energy than it takes to power an incandescent light bulb.

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Video Friday: GR-1

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Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Cybathlon Challenges : 2 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Eurobot Open 2024 : 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCE Enjoy today’s videos! Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, wants to build woodpecker-inspired Doc Ock tentacles. Also, woodpeckers are weird.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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As the pandemic continued to grind on, it was actually comforting to know that smart people in the energy sector were working hard to keep the lights on, advance the technology, and improve people’s lives. No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons.

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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Schoolchildren didn’t have access to the Internet or reliable electric lighting for studying after dark. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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DOE to invest $16M in computational design of new materials for alt and renewable energy, electronics and other fields

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The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. A longtime user of NERSC supercomputers, Louie has a dual appointment as Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas.

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DOE awarding up to $4.6M to four projects for advanced hydrogen storage materials

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Select DOE Onboard Hydrogen Storage Targets for Light-Duty Fuel Cell Vehicles. kWh net ($/kg H 2 stored ) $/gge at pump. Texas A&M University of College Station, Texas, will receive up to $1.2M The University of Michigan of Ann Arbor, Michigan, will receive up to $1.2M Storage Parameter. kg H 2 /L system).

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