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

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Further advancements made possible by Ionic Materials’ polymer will support very inexpensive and low-cost rechargeable alkaline batteries as well. Low cost precursors. 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.).

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Ford CEO calls out America’s love for ‘monster vehicles’ with smaller $30,000 EV coming

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We are just in love with these monster vehicles,” Ford’s CEO said at the Aspen Ideas Festival Friday. After Farley revealed earlier this year that the company had been secretly working on a new EV platform for smaller, low-cost EVs, Ford is doubling down. It’s super important for our society and for EV adoption.”

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UMass Amherst Licenses Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Technology to Startup Anellotech to Produce Renewable Biogasoline

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Huber’s patent-pending technique offers a low-cost, single-step process for turning sawdust, woody stalks and other waste biomass into gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil and valuable chemical commodities such as benzene, toluene and xylenes. Aspen Plus software will be used for process design simulation. Earlier post.).

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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. Hanging in PPPL’s lobby is a black-and-white photo of the lab’s founder, physicist Lyman Spitzer , smiling as he shows off the fanciful-looking apparatus he invented and dubbed a stellarator, or “star generator.”

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. Gradient Amine Sorbents for Low Vacuum Swing CO 2 Capture at Ambient Temperature. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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