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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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DOE Investing Up to $78M Investment in Two Consortia Targeting Algae-Based and Biomass-Based Bio-Hydrocarbon Fuels and Infrastructure; $1.6M for Ethanol Blends Fueling Infrastructure

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Low-cost one-step syngas to distillates. Catchlight Energy, LLC; Colorado School of Mines; Iowa State University; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Pall Corporation; RTI International; Tesoro Companies Inc.; University of California, Davis; UOP LLC; Virent Energy Systems; and Washington State University. Ethanol Blend Fueling.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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His groundbreaking work has pushed the boundaries of electronics, leading to computers operating in low Earth orbit for more than a year on the International Space Station and on jet engines. He attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. He received his doctorate (Ph.D.)

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DOE awards $45M to 38 advanced transportation technology projects; $3M from the Army

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This project will develop a combination of new alloys and novel casting techniques to produce high-performance, low-cost castings for crankshafts and rotating components with properties similar to forged units. In the last four years, the cost of a plug-in electric vehicle battery has come down by nearly 50%. Caterpillar. ??? ?This

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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That’s now been in operations in two distribution centers here, one in Utah and one in Arkansas ever since. Your range and long range and low cost. And a fixed-wing aircraft over something that can hover has something like an 800% advantage in range and cost. In the industry referred to as a fixed-wing aircraft.