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ARPA-E awarding up to $24M to 10 projects to support advanced nuclear power plants

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Nuclear power generates nearly 20% of US electricity, delivering reliable, low-emission baseload power to the grid. These plants are all conventional light water reactors (LWR), the technology of which has evolved steadily over time. GW by 2050.

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Fusion Is Having a Moment

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As Earth’s inhabitants suffer through what may wind up being the hottest year on record , there’s a Promethean spark of hope. While there are lessons to be learned from NIF’s successes and failures, laser-based inertial confinement fusion doesn’t yet provide a practical path to commercial-scale power generation.

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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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The people in this room are America’s best hope” in the race to unleash the power of clean energy, she said. The electrolyte serves as a medium through which lithium salt moves from one electrode to the other in the battery, shuttling electricity. When it’s cold, the carbonates thicken, which lowers the power of the battery.

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Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

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We are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, and the use of energy storage is becoming more widespread. Technologies include energy storage with molten salt and liquid air or cryogenic storage. SETEC POWER is keenly aware of market demand and industry changes.

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German researchers improve catalyst for steam reforming of methanol with salt coating; enabler for renewable energy storage systems

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In this scenario, excess renewable electricity can be used to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen, in turn, is then reacted with carbon dioxide to make methanol and water, thus allowing it to be stored as a liquid. The hydrogen can be released from the methanol at a later time to power a fuel cell. Bösmann, A.,

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

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Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Amesbury, Mass. Louisville, Colo. Petaluma, Calif.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. Batteries have a powerful spigot, but that comes at the cost of a small tub. Some companies have landed on thermal storage.