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Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

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billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. It is considered a Generation III Advanced Light Water Reactor.) Georgia’s need for electricity is growing and is expected to increase by approximately 30% over the next 15 years. —President Obama.

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Georgia Tech prototype triboelectric nanogenerator could extract energy from ocean waves

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed an inexpensive and simple prototype of a triboelectric nanogenerator that could be used to produce energy from ocean waves by making use of contact electrification between a patterned plastic nanoarray and water. A report on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wind generators more practical for.

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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 joins growing group of electric 3-row crossover SUVs

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It’s built in the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant in Bryan County, Georgia, that now assembles the refreshed 2025 Ioniq 5 five-seat hatchback—and it’s expected to qualify for the full $7,500 federal purchase incentives, if it still exists when the vehicle goes on sale. The 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 will go on sale in Spring 2025.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Sun Catalytix Corporation will develop a unique technology to split water into hydrogen and oxygen under benign conditions to enable storage of intermittent renewable solar and wind energy for around-the-clock use. Breakthrough High Efficiency Shrouded Wind Turbine. DOE grant: $4,085,350). The University of Minnesota and BioCee, Inc.

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DeltaWing partners with DHX Electric Machines; ultra high-torque motors for automotive applications

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DHX traction motor technology is based on proprietary direct-winding heat exchange cooling technology that is able to remove motor heat at the source—the stator windings. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Rhett Mayor (DHX CEO) and Dr. Rhett Mayor (DHX CEO) and Dr. S.

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