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DOE awards $4M to carbon capture and storage projects selected as part of ACT

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative.

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Mubadala and Snam sign MOU to collaborate on hydrogen development

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As part of the agreement, the two companies will carry out a number of assessment activities, including technical and economic feasibility studies to explore potential projects and solutions to foster and promote hydrogen development in the UAE, and elsewhere globally. As part of a €7.4-billion

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From Intel Intern to Inventor of the Year

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For two years, Kavalieros and team had dug deeply into the building of transistors. Chau hired Kavalieros as a summer intern in 1994 when he was pursuing his Ph.D. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kavalieros is the son of a supertanker captain. It was a new manufacturing technique called strained silicon.

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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Seagrass meadows, the researchers found, store 90% of their carbon in the soil, and continue to build on it for centuries. The research is part of the Blue Carbon Initiative, a collaborative effort of Conservation International, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

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Battelle-R&D Magazine forecast predicts 5.2% growth in 2012 global R&D spending to $1.4+T, largely driven by Asian economies; US companies and tech providers to boost energy R&D spending by 23.1% to $6.7B

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Greece is the only country among the world’s top 40 R&D spenders that is not expected to increase its R&D budget during the next year. Several years ago, only 10% of US industries calculated return on investment (ROI) from R&D efforts, while data from a survey that is part of the Funding Forecast now indicates that 40% measure that figure.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

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Even the butter service — presented in a stacked ribbon reminiscent of a Frank Gehry building — puts on a show. The menu reads like roll call at the United Nations: soups from Indonesia, chickpea tagines, French omelets and a bucatini dish by way of Greece, pairing brown butter with feta and cinnamon.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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To validate cable simulation results, international standards are used, but these standards have not been able to keep up with recent advancements in computational power and the simulation software’s growing capabilities. Optimizing the designs of subsea and terrestrial cables is an important part of building a sustainable future.

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