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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.”

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US DOE to Award More Than $327M in Recovery Act Funding for Science Research; Includes Support for Biofuels, Smart Grid and Fusion Energy

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award more than $327 million for scientific research, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure projects including biofuels, smart grid and fusion energy research, among others. million to upgrade equipment at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI); $11 million for fusion energy research; $8.8

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Number one?

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DOE releases five-year strategic plan, 2014-2018; supporting “all of the above” energy strategy

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Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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Mad Power thoughts

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Climate Change. And while preventing working people earning a livelihood may make them feel good, it does nothing to solve the real problem of climate change. . The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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Department of Energy awards more funds

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The US Department of Energy will dish out more than $327million for laboratory infrastructure projects, instrumentation and scientific research that will include fusion energy research, biofuels and the smart grid. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: $810,000 for fusion energy research.

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DOE seeking comment on draft $50M solicitation for new projects over 11 areas of interest to improve vehicle performance and decrease fuel consumption

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Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction. The objective of this AOI is to develop and demonstrate the capability of multi-material joining techniques for aluminum to advanced steel for light-duty vehicle body-in-white (BIW) joints. Computer Aided Engineering for Electric Drive Batteries.

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