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The company has its origins at Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories, UC Berkeley and the University of NorthCarolina. Blue Current has been working exclusively in the area of silicon anodes with completely dry composite electrolytes since 2018, and it has extensive intellectual property in this area.
NIST is awarding $5 million to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio, which is operated by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, for a three-phase collaborative research effort involving 27 companies, universities and national laboratories. NIST is also awarding $2.4
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 42 university-led research and development projects for awards totaling $38 million. These projects, funded over three to four years through the Department’s Nuclear Energy University Program, are intended to help advance nuclear education and develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.
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The US Department of Energy will award some $17 million in research grants to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country.
Ford Motor Company and Progress Energy are working together to help prepare the Research Triangle area of NorthCarolina for the operation of electric vehicles. This will include installing about 600 stations across the company’s territory in the Carolinas and Florida.
The University of Surrey is launching a new multi-disciplinary research center next week to tackle air pollution. The Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) will see the University leading on collaborative, cutting-edge research to identify an action plan to ensure “clean air for all”.
At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. NorthCarolina A&T University.
The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Institution: University of South Florida.
The Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME) and Virginia Clean Cities (VCC) at James Madison University (JMU) are requesting proposals from fleets in the southeastern US interested in converting eligible gasoline vehicles to run on propane autogas. The application deadline is Friday, 12 August 2011, at 5pm EDT.
The company gets its name from the beaches of Kitty Hawk, NorthCarolina where the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time in 1903. He spent several years as a professor at Stanford University where he led the Stanford Racing Team, whose “Stanley” won the DARPA Grand Challenge. Kitty Hawk Corp.,
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New research from NorthCarolina State University found that federal requirements governing diesel engines of MY 2010 tractor trailer trucks have resulted in major cuts in real world emissions of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NO x ). Sandhu is lead author of the paper.
million cars, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Canterbury. University of Canterbury PhD candidate Nicholas Patton said the research would have ramifications for curbing the effects of climate change into the future.
Tennessee Technological University. NorthCarolina State University. Marquette University. University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. University of Wisconsin- Madison. EV Market Stimulation in Divested Economies. Native Sun Community Power Development.
A NorthCarolina State University grant for Clean Fuel Advanced Technology helped fund one of Asplundh’s vehicles. For Asplundh, this means there is enough room for compartments to be mounted to hold the tools and other equipment needed for vegetation management services.
The five grantees include: University at Albany-SUNY will help incorporate short-term forecasts of emissions from electricity generation and traffic into modeling and air quality forecasts.
Members from two of the EcoCAR Challenge teams —NC State and the University of Wisconsin—will participate in a webchat today at 3pm ET. EcoCAR webchat with Wisconsin and NorthCarolina State Universities. The EcoCAR Challenge is a college engineering competition sponsored by GM and the US Department of Energy.
Princeton University’s Electric Speedboat team has set a new world water speed record for an electric-powered boat, reaching an average speed of 114 mph (183 km/h or 99 knots) on Lake Townsend near Greensboro, NorthCarolina.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will lead a $13.5-million, million, multi-institutional research effort to improve sorghum as a sustainable source for biofuel production. Most US biofuels currently are made from corn, but sorghum varieties create more biomass for cellulosic ethanol.
Purdue University—Purdue University will receive up to $1,592,385 for its project that will conduct a sustainability assessment of multiple species of energy crops including miscanthus, switchgrass, and hybrid poplar, and examine the impacts of removing of crop residues within two watersheds representative of conditions in the Upper Midwest.
Long-term exposure to ambient ozone appears to accelerate arterial conditions that progress into cardiovascular disease and stroke, according to a new University at Buffalo study. The longitudinal study followed nearly 7,000 people aged 45 to 84 from six US regions: Winston-Salem, NorthCarolina; New York City; Baltimore; St.
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill; and University of Miami has analyzed the implications of California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) for emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria air pollutants, both in aggregate and in their distribution.
million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). Mississippi State University – lead University.
The NNCI sites will provide researchers from academia, government, and companies large and small with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology. million each per year.
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In NorthCarolina, swine manure is being incorporated as a paving substitute. It’s slowly picking up—more slowly than I wish. —Haifang Wen. In Iowa, for example, scientists are making a corn-based bioasphalt from residue left after the production of ethanol. Building roads is a big investment in taxpayer money.
Researchers from NorthCarolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new high-entropy alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio that they say is unmatched by any other metallic material. Lead author of the paper is Dr. Khaled Youssef of Qatar University. Youssef et al. Click to enlarge.
Researchers at NorthCarolina State University have developed a 50-kw fast charger that they say costs half as much as conventional DC fast chargers, is more efficient, and only 1/16th the size.
million for the creation of two new Biomass Crop Assistance Program ( BCAP ) project areas in New York and NorthCarolina, and the expansion of an already established BCAP project area in Arkansas. targeted for the heart of NorthCarolina, where it will grow more than 4,000 acres of Freedom Giant Miscanthus and switch grass.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering are working with Powdermet Inc. , Powdermet is an industry participant of the Advanced Magnetics for Power & Energy Development (AMPED) Consortium, a research consortium led by director Ohodnicki and co-director Grainger at the University of Pittsburgh.
Researchers from NorthCarolina State University have developed a computational model that can be used to determine the optimal places for locating electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities, as well as how powerful the charging stations can be without placing an undue burden on the local power grid.
NorthCarolina State. University, North. Carolina Solar Center. The Alternative Fuel Implementation Team (AFIT) for NorthCarolina project. University of Central. Governor’s office and other appropriate entities to address alternative fuel. propane vehicle safety and training initiatives.
Chairman and CEO Nicholas DeBenedict made the announcement before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s Alternative Fuel Vehicles forum held at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Aqua America serves almost 3 million residents in Pennsylvania, Ohio, NorthCarolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, and Georgia.
Holland, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Science Research Unit at NorthCarolina State University. Lines with strong photoperiod response were identified as those flowering much later in NorthCarolina, compared to Florida.
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), with colleagues from NorthCarolina State University and the University of Connecticut, have engineered the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Thermotoga maritima to produce 46% more hydrogen per cell than the wild type. The team’s highest reported yield—5.7
million in four grants to universities to research the relationship between the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) and health effects. NorthCarolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., NorthCarolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., University of California, Davis, Calif.,
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