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Researchers design nanoparticles for cost-effective hydrogen production process

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Researchers at the University of Arkansas, with colleagues from Brookhaven National Lab and Argonne National Lab, have found that nanoparticles composed of nickel and iron are more effective and efficient than other more costly materials when used as catalysts in the production of hydrogen fuel through water electrolysis.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. The pressurized-water plant provides electricity to the majority of the state’s businesses and residents and to customers beyond Arkansas. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Drinking water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally , according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark. million (DOE share: $6.9

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Ford using rice hull-reinforced plastic in F-150s

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The rice hulls are sourced from farms in Arkansas and will replace a talc-based reinforcement in a polypropylene composite made by RheTech, a Whitmore Lake, Mich.-based Recycled plastic soda pop and water bottles: A lightweight fiber derived from recycled plastic soda pop and water bottles is used to construct F-150 wheel liners and shields.

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Albemarle expands Nevada site to increase domestic production of lithium

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Beginning in 2021, the company plans to invest $30 million to $50 million to double the current production at the Nevada site by 2025, making full use of its brine water rights.

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VIMS Collaborates with StatoilHydro on Algae Biofuel Project

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Other key partners are the Williamsburg energy advisory firm Blackrock Energy, the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Arkansas, and HydroMentia, a Florida company that works with water-treatment technologies.

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