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million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5

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MAY 16, 2023

Chemists at the University of Kansas and the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have unraveled the entire reaction mechanism for a key class of water-splitting catalysts. Their work was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Universal Lubricants has hit the 1.5-million Universal Lubricants collects used oil from the government and private business such as auto parts stores, dealerships, service stations, and oil change centers across the US. million gallon production mark for its ECO ULTRA line of recycled motor oil. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, elevates combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance. —BJ Johnson, ClearFlame CEO and co-founder.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. University of California, Merced, Calif. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. DOE award: $298,191).

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JULY 21, 2011

The Alcoa Foundation recently awarded a $400,000 grant to the Ohio State University (OSU) Institute for Materials Research in support of innovative design and manufacturing technologies that will enable the creation of lighter, more environmentally friendly vehicle structures. The new design results in a weight saving of over 55%.

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with his grandson and encouraged young Nasir to emigrate there when it was time to further his studies after he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in Bengaluru in 1961. He stayed in that job until he retired from the University in 2001 and was named professor emeritus.

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JUNE 15, 2023

A team of researchers from the University of Kansas has developed a tool to weed out AI-generated academic writing from the stuff penned by people, with over 99 percent accuracy. This work was published on 7 June in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science.

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Awards in this topic area, with the Federal share, include: Northeastern University: Developing Platinum Group Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acid: Beyond the Single Metal Site. Indiana University, Purdue University: Mesoporous Carbon-based PGM-free Catalyst Cathodes. 880,034. . 1,600,000. . 600,000. .

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The awards will support projects led by collaborative teams, including universities, national laboratories and private industry. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will partner with universities and industry, including the University of Kansas , to complete the project. Craig Venter Institute ( JVCI ) (up to $1.2

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 vol% H 2 O) methane at 500 °C, demonstrating a peak power density of 0.37

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Montana State University. Murray State University. University of Southern Mississippi. University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. Jackson State University. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description. Benjamin Poulter.

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Water Puerto Rico West Virginia Energy 150

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APRIL 24, 2010

Using innovative seismic-based technologies developed with funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE), a Kansas drilling company has discovered an untapped, 10-foot-thick oil zone in a developed Colorado reservoir. In 2009, the company drilled a well into a 6-foot-thick tight formation in Gove County, Kan.,

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Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara , when he died. Kroemer taught electrical engineering at the University of Colorado , Boulder, from 1968 to 1976 before joining UCSB , where he led the university’s semiconductor research program. Vladimir G.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

The grants, which are funded through the EPA’s Science to Achieve Results ( STAR ) program, are being awarded to the following: Carnegie Mellon University will research the accuracy of air pollution sensors and the usefulness of the sensor data.

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New Mexico State University ($5 million DOE investment): For its project, New Mexico State University will increase the yield of a microalgae, while developing harvesting and cultivation processes that lower costs and support year-round production. California Polytechnic State University ($1.5

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The 10 projects are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Virginia: Association Mapping of Cell Wall Synthesis Regulatory Genes and Cell Wall Quality in Switchgrass. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

It also can be rotated with wheat and could become a biofuel crop for semi-arid regions, including western Kansas and Colorado. Camelina can grow on poorer quality farmland, needs little irrigation or fertilizer, and produces seeds that can provide gallons of oil, Durrett said. The researchers have been supported with a four-year $1.5

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The University of Texas’s Center for Electromechanics, Electric Vehicles International, Hydrogenics USA and Valence Technology will also participate in this project. Sprint ($250,000 DOE investment): Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Sprint will deploy fuel cell-powered backup power systems for rooftop telecommunications equipment.

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The following projects have been selected for awards: Kansas State University, $5,078,932. Ohio State University, $6,510,183. The goal of this project is to make the oilseed crop camelina a cost-effective biofuel and bioproduct feedstock.

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—Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the US EPA, and lead author of the PNAS paper. Linda Ashkenas of Oregon State University; Lee Cooper of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Md.; Linda Ashkenas of Oregon State University; Lee Cooper of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Md.;

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A study from the University of California Berkley that found that only 72.5% Panasonic announced a $4 billion plant in De Soto, Kansas that will create 4,000 jobs. The issue pushed California Governor Gavin Newsom to write the “ EV Charging Reliability Transparency Act ,” a bill supported by ChargerHelp!,

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Charging North Carolina Tesla Ohio 98

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Manufacturing: Michigan and Kansas City, MO; Deployment: several utility partners’ fleets. Manufacturing: Kansas City, MO; Deployment: Several partners’ fleets. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Technology.

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Results of a 14-week study by Rice University researchers suggest that algae monocultures for biofuel feedstock can be grown in open tank bioreactors using municipal wastewater as a nutrient source. For instance, the algae in the Rice study was four times more effective at removing phosphorous than were the algae in a Kansas study.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Cass approached me with this question because I work at the Linda Hall Library (LHL), an independent research library in Kansas City, Missouri that collects materials related to science, technology, engineering, and their histories. Or maybe an unscrupulous engineer had absconded with the disc after the issue arrived in Kansas City.

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MAY 6, 2011

University of Florida , Gainesville, Fla., The University will identify genetic traits in sorghum associated with drought tolerance through genetic mapping and will select strains that produce high biomass yields and can be easily converted to fermentable sugars. University of Kansas Center for Research , Lawrence, Kan.,

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In just one week, teams from universities worldwide will put rubber to track at NCM Motorsports Park, competing to complete as many laps as possible on nothing but solar energy. July 20-27 : The main event, the Electrek American Solar Challenge, will take teams through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.) Clemson University researchers will evaluate the feasibility of using wellbore deformations to assess reservoir, caprock, and wellbore conditions. Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.) Lawrence, Kan.)

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percent), Maine (6.2), Idaho (6.2), Utah (7.3), New Hampshire (7.8), Nebraska (7.8), North Dakota (7.9), Kansas (8.0), South Dakota (8.0), and Minnesota (8.7). But the above numbers are from 2022 and are universally assumed to have increased a few percentage points by now.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

A team led by Yang-Kook Sun at Hanyang University (South Korea), Bruno Scrosati at University of Rome Sapienza, and Khalil Amine at Argonne National Laboratory reports the development of a sodium-ion battery based on a carbon-coated Fe 3 O 4 anode, Na[Ni 0.25 Credit: ACS, Oh et al. Click to enlarge.

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Utah State University. Utah State University will develop electronic hardware and. Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania State University is developing an innovative. Washington University. Washington University in St. the University of Kansas, and Vanderbilt. This improvement in.

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JULY 5, 2010

Washington State University has more than a decade of work on perennial wheat led by Stephen Jones, director WSU’s Mount Vernon Research Center. It really depends on the breakthroughs. The more people involved in this, the more it cuts down the time.

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APRIL 4, 2010

However, growing dedicated energy crops as an alternative to crop residue removal can provide a range of benefits. Crop residue removal can make no-till soils a source rather than a sink of atmospheric carbon ,” says Blanco, even at rates lower than 50%.

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APRIL 14, 2009

Smith Electric Vehicles US Corporation (SEV-US) and the Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research are participating in the Ohio Electric Drive Initiative as major program partners. SEV-US Corp will assemble all-electric commercial vehicles in Kansas City beginning in the third quarter of 2009. Bryan Hansel, CEO of SEV-US.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A team at the University of Kansas has demonstrated the feasibility of an integrated wastewater algae-to-biocrude process using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) that can sustainably cultivate algal biomass for biofuel production. Flow diagram of the solvent extraction and product recovery method used. Credit: ACS, Roberts et al.

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