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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Scalable CO 2 electrocatalysis technologies. Project title. Federal share. Topic 1:Scale-Up of Bench Applications. University of Alabama. Development of High Value Bioproducts and Enhancement of Direct-Air-Capture Efficiency with a Marine Algae Biofuel Production System. Mississippi State University.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. But during her first year at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln , she took a physics class and fell in love with the field thanks to her professor, she says.

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DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

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Even a partial move toward a hydrogen economy will require vast quantities of hydrogen at low cost. Fossil fuels with CCUS are already—and by far—the lowest cost source of low-carbon hydrogen. The principal biomass to be used is corn stover, prevalent in Nebraska where the plant will be located.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Water (1 project). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Nebraska – Lincoln). American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost.

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