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DOE awarding nearly $8M for national laboratory H2@Scale projects

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NREL and GE Renewable Energy will optimize wind turbine design specifically for hydrogen production from electrolysis, and validate designs using NREL’s ARIES facilities. Award amount: $1,722,089). Award amount: $500,000). Award amount: $525,000). Award amount: $770,000).

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U Delaware team develops prototype efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for transportation

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A team at the University of Delaware has demonstrated a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) prototype with a peak power density of 135 mW cm -2 at 80 ?C. The technical potential of wind and solar energy is vast, and such fuels are scalable beyond foreseeable needs. A paper on the work is published in the journal Joule. Zhao et al.

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DOE, BOEMRE and NOAA awarding nearly $5M for projects to advance ocean renewable energy

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The University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) will develop and test standardized protocols for baseline studies and monitoring for the collection and comparison of scientifically valid and comparable data for specific offshore renewable energy issues. Evaluating Acoustic Technologies to Monitor Aquatic Organisms at Renewable Sites.

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Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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Study Concludes Arctic Summers Likely Will Be Nearly Ice-Free Sooner Than Expected

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Summers in the Arctic may be nearly ice-free in as few as 30 years or even earlier, not at the end of the century as previously expected, according to a new study by a pair of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington. Credit: University of Washington / NOAA.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Seattle, Washington). Cyrqenergy (Seattle, Washington). Assessment Robot for Resilient Optimized Wind Energy ARROW(e), $1,000,000. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia).

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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

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Scientists from NASA and the University of Washington in Seattle conducted the most comprehensive survey to date using observations from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ( ICESat ) to make the first basin-wide estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover. Click to enlarge. .

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