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APRIL 9, 2025

If successful, the invention, developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, could have a big impact on greenhouse gas emissions. In Georgia Techs design, supercritical carbon dioxide quenches the arc. They group is also building a 245-kV version.

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MARCH 26, 2013

Researchers at the University of Georgia and North Carolina State University have used a unique temperature-dependent approach in engineering a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus to be able to use CO 2 and hydrogen to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, one of the top 12 industrial chemical building blocks.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Redwood Materials will build its next Battery Materials Campus just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. A corridor from Michigan to Georgia is becoming known as the “Battery Belt” and is where hundreds of GWh a year of battery cell production capacity will be built and start operating between now and 2030.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

British Airways will invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial-scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia and acquire cleaner burning sustainable aviation fuel from the plant. The plant in Georgia is due to begin construction this year. BA expects the fuel to be available to power a number of its flights by the end of 2022. Background.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rivian has selected a construction firm to build its new production facility located outside of Atlanta, Georgia. It is an honor to partner with Rivian, a visionary leader in the electric vehicle industry,” Clayco President of Industrial Business Anthony Johnson said. “At Clayco Inc.

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JUNE 29, 2009

to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will produce ethanol, located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas site. Dow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Membrane Technology & Research, Inc. Algenol’s Direct to Ethanol technology.

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JUNE 24, 2011

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. inventions, and in manufacturing-associated R&D.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the Northern portion of Georgia, about 45 miles East of Atlanta, a 2,000-acre slice of land is covered in beautiful trees, hosting stunning landscapes of the rural sections of the Peach State. million square foot factory just miles away from the Georgia-Alabama border, to bring a sizeable manufacturing plant to Georgia.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Production of lithium-ion cells, modules, and battery packs for industrial and agricultural vehicles and defense application markets.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

EcoCAR is a collegiate automotive competition aimed at developing a highly skilled, domestic workforce by providing hands-on experience designing and building next-generation mobility solutions to meet our nation’s future energy and mobility challenges. Georgia Tech. The participating universities include: Colorado State University.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Through cost-share agreements with private industry, DOE will solicit proposals for promising SMR projects that have the potential to be licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and achieve commercial operation by 2022. Earlier post. ). The Vogtle license is the first for new nuclear power plant construction in more than three decades.

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APRIL 23, 2022

Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). The EcoCAR EV Challenge, managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions. Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL). McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. Georgia Tech Research Corporation, EDISON – Efficient DC Interrupter with Surge Protection – $3,000,000.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

signed a non-exclusive joint development agreement to scale up the Renmatix Plantrose process for the production of industrial sugars based on lignocellulosic biomass. The Plantrose technology developed by Renmatix enables industrial sugar to be produced, at competitive costs, from a variety of non-edible biomass (lignocellulose) sources.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion to build a battery component plant in Big Rapids, Michigan. Once completed, the facility in Big Rapids is expected to produce 150,000 tons of cathode material per year, covering an area estimated to span 260 acres with plans to build two 550,000 square foot production plants along with other supporting facilities.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

However, due to its high operating temperature and use of sequential units for the reaction stages, industrial SMR does not scale down well for distributed, point-of-use applications such as fuel cell vehicle refueling stations. Our next step would be to build a pilot-scale CHAMP reactor. Click to enlarge. —Andrei G. Kottke, P.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This first-of-a-kind fully integrated sustainable fuels production facility will be located in the Marquis Industrial Complex in Hennepin, Illinois, just two hours southwest of Chicago, on a 2,500-acre industrial site adjacent to the Illinois River. —Mark Marquis, CEO of Marquis SAF.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

In its Regulatory Engagement Plan (REP) submitted to the NRC in the pre-application Phase, ACU noted that: The nuclear industry gained a degree of familiarity with Molten Salt Reactors following the June 1965 startup ofthe Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) [ earlier post ].

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Rivian Automotive ( NASDAQ: RIVN ), fresh off of the first deliveries of its R1T all-electric pickup, is set to have its second United States plant land in Georgia. A new report claims that Rivian, based in Normal, Illinois, will bring a second electric vehicle manufacturing plant to the United States by building it in Georgia.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Rivian’s $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia pushes lawmakers to revisit the peach state’s legislation on direct sales by vehicle manufacturers. Rivian’s presence in Georgia solidifies the state’s growing electric vehicle industry, making legislators reconsider its take on direct vehicle sales. Georgia HB 460.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials under ambient conditions without the use of catalysts or any external stimuli. In addition to those already named, the research included Alexandre Magaskinski of Georgia Tech and Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

Deepak Divan, recipient of the 2024 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering and the director of the Center for Distributed Energy at Georgia Tech, told Charette that in residential areas multiple [EV] chargers on one distribution transformer can reduce its life from an expected 30 to 40 years to 3 years.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a group of new technologies that build up objects, usually by laying down many thin layers on top of each other. The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding grants totaling $7.4 Manufacturing'

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APRIL 25, 2014

EcoCAR 3 challenges university students across North America to design, build and optimize eco-friendly powertrains over the course of the next four years. Georgia Institute of Technology. Students must also consider cost and explore innovation, while retaining the vehicle’s performance, safety and consumer appeal. McMaster University.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The first two plants are expected to be in Mississippi, with additional sites planned in Georgia and Texas. This project is designed to complement an earlier Mississippi agreement, which requires KiOR to build three plants in Mississippi before 2015. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

South Africa is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country. This centre is headed up by Dr Mkhulu Mathe, who earned his chemistry PhD at Georgia University, in the US.

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APRIL 2, 2015

increase to UPS’ current industry-leading alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet of 5,088 vehicles worldwide. To support the purchase and planned deployment of the 1,400 new CNG vehicles, UPS plans to build 15 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations. Agility providing 445 CNG fuel systems to UPS. .; Richmond, Va.,

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JANUARY 8, 2010

NIST grant to significantly expand the Center for Applied Energy Research Laboratory’s (CAER) capabilities with a new 36,000-square-foot (3,344-square-meter) building dedicated to research in the biomass and biofuels industries, advanced distributed power generation and storage, and technologies for electric vehicles.

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MARCH 2, 2012

The announcement builds on the Energy Department’s work to develop nuclear power: The Energy Department announced $10 million in new research funds earlier this month to solve common challenges across the nuclear industry and improve reactor safety, performance and cost competitiveness.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

The new strategic partnership will see the companies collaborate to develop industrialized anode materials that will be incorporated into SKO’s advanced lithium-ion batteries used in its US gigafactories. In the US, SKO has two battery manufacturing plants in Commerce, Georgia, with the second plant scheduled to be operational in 2023.

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APRIL 14, 2025

“Our partnership demonstrates how Waymo’s 15 years of operational expertise can adapt to new environments through strategic initiatives with industry leaders,” Gavel adds. The Alphabet-owned company is also aiming to launch services in Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida this year, alongside its early tests in Tokyo.

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MARCH 12, 2025

There, d elegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania finalized an ambitious plan: to generate up to 6 gigawatts of clean energy in the Caucasus region, run the electricity through a cable along the bottom of the Black Sea, and deliver it to Europe. Both of these efforts would take a massive, not-yet-secured financial investment.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The Obama Administration and academic and industry partners announced a series of commitments in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI, earlier post ), a public-private endeavor that aims to cut in half the time it takes to develop novel materials that can fuel advanced manufacturing. DOE building on FY12 investments to advance MGI.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Building capacity for now and for the next generation. There is a great possibility of linking new technology, a whole range of different sectors, that make up the new mobility industry cluster. We have been focusing on the economic opportunity side in Detroit and industry development. The five themes are: Systems integration.

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MAY 3, 2023

Mark Freymueller, Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial Vehicle Business Innovation at Hyundai Motor, revealed the company’s plan for XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks, underlining the company’s local partnerships to form a solid hydrogen value chain as building blocks toward accelerating the deployment of clean fleets in the US.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a conditional commitment for a $70-million loan guarantee to help build a cellulosic biorefinery in central Georgia. Ensyn Georgia Biorefinery I, LLC (Ensyn) will construct and operate a cellulosic biofuel refinery in Dooly County, Georgia.

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JULY 8, 2016

Christensen is leaving his post as executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology to come to UC San Diego. Ten years ago, he took over the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech.

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