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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. Re-Mining Red Mud Waste for CO 2 Capture and Storage and Critical Element Recovery (RMCCS-CER) ($1,000,000). The University of Texas at Austin. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. An estimated 2.2 2,200,000).

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US.

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Williams F1 Establishes Technical Center in Qatar; Initial Focus on Commercial Development of Magnetically Loaded Composite Flywheel

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The MLC flywheel project will address the potential of flywheels to store and release energy very quickly, which makes the technology suitable for a variety of applications. The 2009 FIA regulations allow a KERS fitted to a Formula One car to collect and store energy during braking at a maximum rate of 60 kW. WHP flywheel unit.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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e-Golf customers can drive the vehicle confidently, knowing Volkswagen is addressing the vehicle’s environmental impacts through many stages of its lifecycle from production, distribution and charging. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Understand the transport of charge carriers in synthetic disordered systems, which hold promise as new materials for conversion of solar energy to electricity and electrical energy storage. Re-Defining Photovoltaic Efficiency Through Molecule- Scale Control. $16. University of Texas, Austin. University of Texas, Austin.

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Here’s why the tiny Fiat 500e is a big litmus test for the US EV market

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I think there’s a massive portion of these vehicles that will be sold to individuals…who have the ability to have an L2 in their garage and will charge it there and use it for those daily tasks.” We’re really proud of that.” I don’t expect all of these cars to be sold in the city,” he underscored. “I

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. Texas Agrilife Research. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in.

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