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ARPA-E Funding Lightweight Materials for Greener Automobiles

Benji Jerew — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:02:48 +0000

The US Department of Energy’s [DOE] Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy [ARPA-E] has made funding available for many projects that could revolutionize energy, and how we use it. Some of that ARPA-E funding has gone to wind turbines, electric-vehicle battery research, solar power systems, and even geothermal energy projects, among many others. This week, […]

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Embedded Sensors Could Improve Electric Vehicle Battery Packs

Benji Jerew — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:18:22 +0000

Electric vehicle battery packs aren’t as simple as a nickel-metal hydride [NiMH] rechargeable “AA” battery, but then, is even the rechargeable lithium-ion [Li-ion] battery that powers my laptop? Electric vehicles are significantly cleaner than their conventional counterparts, but can’t be driven exactly the same, that is, recharging on practically any corner after a few hundred […]

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ARPA-E’s Super Efficient Battery to be Developed in Manhattan

Mila Luleva — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:01:36 +0000

The City University of New York (CUNY), Energy Institute, developed a new highly efficient zinc-manganese rechargeable battery. The invention is funded by the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E), and it will be manufactured in a new facility owned by the Urban Electric Power (UEP) company in the Manhattanville Factory District. Since its beginning, […]

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Re-engineering Nature – Hot Topic at ARPA-E Conference

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:37:15 +0000

The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, or ARPA-E, began its three day conference in Washington, DC on Monday. Attendees included the best and brightest from across the US who proposed lots of innovative ideas. To date, the agency has spent $770 million on 285 cutting edge projects ARPA-E is the Energy Department’s Pentagon-like arm […]

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ARPA-E Funds Laser-Drilled Geothermal Energy Project

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:25:07 +0000

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has provided funding to Foro Energy to develop inexpensive, high-powered lasers that may be able to tear through rock to drill for oil. This would eliminate the need to bore through the Earth using giant metal drills in the quest for resources. Using […]

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Energy Storage First on ARPA-E’s Funding List

Mila Luleva — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:20:55 +0000

ARPA-E is allocating $130 million for 66 grants that will help innovative projects bring changes in energy storage. The largest grant was given to a company called PolyPlus Battery Company. Besides this the company also received $9 million from the DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office this summer. The product that PolyPlus is planning to develop is […]

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New Metal-Organic Frameworks In Action for Capturing Carbon Dioxide

Cristi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:52:33 +0000

Climate change is one of the most controversial subjects of the century, because it is changing our planet in an non-imaginable way. Scientists have developed different ways (more or less efficient) to capture the CO2 excess resulted from human activity.

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Daniel Nocera's Sun Catalytix Receives $7.1 Million for Developing Photosynthesis System

Cristi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:27 +0000

Daniel G. Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the inventor of the most important solar energy system of the century. His 2007 designed system is able to create cheap solar energy based on the photosynthesis process.

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GM to Research Shape Memory Alloy for Heat Recovery Systems

Cristi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:19:54 +0000

GM's R&D has to build a prototype of a thermo-mechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in exhaust. Noticeable is the fact that GM was between the 37 other candidates that received the ARPA-E award.

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FastCAP Receives DOE Funding for Developing Commercial Ultracapacitor

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:49:08 +0000

ARPA-E, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has awarded FastCAP Systems, from Cambridge, MA, with a 2.5 year, $5.35 million grant to further develop and commercialize a nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitor, which could reduce the costs of hybrid and electric cars.

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