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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system. RTI International. Georgia Institute of Technology.

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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Achates Power will develop a highly efficient opposed-piston engine for hybrid vehicles (“HOPE-Hybrid”) using a unique engine design that minimizes energy losses typical in conventional internal combustion engines. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. Georgia Tech will develop a new approach to internally cool permanent magnet motors.

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

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Petaluma, Calif. Louis , Mo.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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RTI International and partners at POET Research, Inc. The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR). The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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They were “homegrown” businesses—largely created within 3M and commercialized and built with the energy of many internal sponsors and champions. Even though the consumer business had huge growth potential, 3M had little experience with a low-cost, low-profit-margin model. based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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will demonstrate its low-cost ICE-31 solvent with enhanced stability technology on a flue gas slipstream at Los Medanos Energy Center, a commercially dispatched natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, CA. Engineering-Scale Test of a Water-Lean Solvent for Post-Combustion Capture. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Georgia Power. Southern Company: Georgia Power. a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. Eugene Water & Electric Board. Southern Company: Georgia Power. Dayton Power & Light Company. Duke Energy. Edison Electric Institute.

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