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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. East Hartford, Conn.

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Meet the Teens Whose Tech Reduces Drownings and Fights Air Pollution

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Eventually, she says, she would like to build and mass-produce technologies that help communities at a low cost. Carboflux uses the gas concentration between the depths to predict what the soil carbon flux would be,” Bulusu says. He worked with visually impaired students from the Governor Morehead School of Raleigh, N.C.,

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to capture the maximum levels of wind energy and support a cost-competitive US offshore wind industry. In the wind energy industry, doubling the length of a turbine blade can quadruple the amount of electricity generated.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Waterproof sensors that track flooding As part of the Sunny Day Flooding Project, Katherine Anarde, assistant professor in North Carolina State University’s Environmental, Water Resources, and Coastal Engineering Group [right] and another researcher install low-cost water-level sensors in storm drains.