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UH team reports new catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater; promising for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination

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The researchers tested the catalysts with seawater drawn from Galveston Bay off the Texas coast. The catalysts were integrated into a two-electrode alkaline electrolyzer, which can be powered by waste heat via a thermoelectric device or by an AA battery. The work is described in an open-access paper in Nature Communications.

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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 were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air.

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The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges

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Stiff Competition for Engineering Talent One critical area of resource competition is over the limited supply of software and systems engineers with mechatronics and robotics expertise needed for EVs. Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory needs some 10,000 workers alone, for example. between 5 to 10 percent of production.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS). Texas A&M AgriLife Research.