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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. And unlike traditional nuclear facilities, SMRs don’t need to be located near large bodies of water to handle the waste heat discharge.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Lynchburg, Virginia). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. ENTR Alliance (Charlottesville, Virginia). NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Framatome Inc.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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Empower’s design will enable faster & more accurate power delivery than today’s power management hardware, which has not been able to keep up with the need for high-quality power in modern processors, an important source of wasted energy. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University I. 1,602,275.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia

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The Sustainable Innovations team seeks to take waste carbon dioxide from industrial or chemical processes and—using an electrochemical cell and water—convert it to methanol, with subsequent conversion to DME producing only oxygen and water as byproducts. West Virginia University Research Corporation. University of Delaware.

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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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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. deliver high power to a car or truck. Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains A Virginia Commonwealth University led team will. power grid. The power conversion devices. will yield significantly improved energy capture in solar power.

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