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Westinghouse unveils AP300 small modular reactor for mid-sized nuclear technology

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This brings licensing advantages and substantially reduces delivery risk for customers in the utility, oil & gas and industrial space. Its fast load-follow capabilities make it ideally suited for integration with renewable resources.

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Idaho National Laboratory low-energy electrochemical process could eliminate need for steam cracking of hydrocarbons

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A team of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers, with colleagues at Georgia Tech, has pioneered an electrochemical process that could eliminate the need for high-energy steam cracking. Estimates put the product cost contribution of steam cracking at 60% and the manufacturing carbon footprint at two-thirds of the total.

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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

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Electric vehicle charging infrastructure has several vulnerabilities ranging from skimming credit card information—just like at conventional gas pumps or ATMs—to using cloud servers to hijack an entire electric vehicle charger network. Sandia has produced a best-practices document for the charging industry.

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New Flyer selected for the State of Oregon Transit Bus Cooperative Agreement

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Under the contract, New Flyer can provide a wide range of products on its proven Xcelsior platform, including thirty-five-foot and forty-foot buses offered in electric, low-emission diesel-electric hybrid, low-emission compressed natural gas (CNG), and clean diesel propulsions. —Chris Stoddart, President, New Flyer. Earlier post.).

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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& They’ve been joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming in the suit.& Swelling vehicle prices was another issue.&

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INL team develops efficient method for separating rare earth elements and transition metals in magnet scrap

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Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a dimethyl ether-driven fractional crystallization process for separating rare earth elements and transition metals. a Schematic depicting the experimental apparatus whereby DME gas is sparged into an aqueous solution at elevated pressure, permitting dissolution of DME into the liquid.

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DOE selects 7 projects to accelerate adoption of performance-advantaged biofuels; Co-Optima

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ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company will work with ANL to develop a life-cycle analysis modeling framework to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions produced by refinery coprocessing of renewable fuels.

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