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Ionic Materials raises $65M in Series C; polymer electrolyte for solid-state batteries

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Ionic Materials has secured $65 million in a Series C financing round from a leading group of financial and strategic investors. Joy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a lifetime trustee of the Aspen Institute.). Joy served as chief scientist there until 2003.

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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

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The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. is using pay-as-you-save financing to help transportation companies switch to electric buses. Energy Access. Transportation. Social & Cultural Impacts.

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DOE offers $670.6 million loan to Aspen Aerogels to produce thermal barriers for EV battery safety – Charged EVs

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million to Aspen Aerogels Georgia to help finance the construction of an aerogel blanket manufacturing facility in Register, Georgia. Aspen’s PyroThin aerogel thermal barriers are used as a protective layer within electric vehicle batteries. Source: US Department of Energy The post DOE offers $670.6

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951. The Muse project was financed by internal R&D funds and used mostly off-the-shelf components. This is a machine built on pizza, basically,” says Cowley, PPPL’s director.

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DOGE’s Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy meet GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill

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” “I look forward to working in a bipartisan manner with my colleagues to remove FEMA and Secret Service from DHS and make them independent agencies,” Moskowitz noted, as per a Yahoo Finance report. Even progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders chimed in, posting “Elon Musk is right” on X.

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