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UT Dallas' Dr. Todd Griffith with a model of his team's offshore wind turbine solution. [Photo: UTD]
‘Egg Beater’ Solution for Deep-Ocean Wind Turbines: UTD Team Advances New Design With Nearly $8M From DOE
by David Seeley | Feb 27, 2025
Ultimately, the offshore turbine designed by UTD Professor Dr. Todd Griffith could reached the stunning height of 900 feet—as tall as a 72-story skyscraper—generating electricity from winds over the deep ocean "miles from the coast and out of view from land."
by David Seeley |
Jun 4, 2024
Lee is one of three UT Arlington faculty members who've been awarded $1.6 million from the Department of Energy to help boost the reliability of Texas's electric grid. The team is exploring the use of "behind-the-meter" energy devices that may help cut down on electricity consumption—and even upload energy to the grid itself, writes Fort Worth Report's Shomial Ahmad.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 1, 2024
Las Vegas-based MP Materials—which began building the plant in 2022 at Hillwood's AllianceTexas—plans to produce ""precursor materials" at the facility this summer, and "finished magnets" by late 2025. The critically needed products will be delivered to General Motors to power EVs—and help "bring the supply chain home" to the U.S.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 25, 2024
Skyven said the funding will address critical climate challenges by accelerating the installation of cutting-edge Skyven Arcturus industrial steam-generating heat pumps at manufacturing facilities across the U.S.
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Fusion ignition driven by laser energy was achieved in December at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility. [Image: LLNL]
Irving-Based Fluor Signs On as Engineering and Construction Partner for a Laser Fusion Power Project
by David Seeley | Apr 19, 2023
Fluor's memo of understanding with California-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems positions it to serve as Longview's partner in designing and planning laser fusion energy for the global energy market.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 14, 2022
SMU researchers aim to help address problems in the broad area of computational mathematics for sustainability—such as the management of the energy grid under intermittent renewable power. The research is aimed at developing new algorithms for materials design, bioengineering, and power grid applications.
Researchers will use SMU's high-performance computing system—enhanced with an NVIDIA DGX SuperPODTM—as well as the supercomputing resources at Argonne National Laboratory.
Researchers will use SMU's high-performance computing system—enhanced with an NVIDIA DGX SuperPODTM—as well as the supercomputing resources at Argonne National Laboratory.
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by Kevin Cummings |
Oct 12, 2022
To create a device for the world of quantum computing, you have to think small. Richardson-based Zyvex Labs has been developing a device since 2007 that acts as a type of microscope that can manipulate atomic structures on a surface. That's led to the ZyvexLitho1 system, which enables more precise, automated patterning at a sub-nanometer resolution. It's also led to $28 million in funding from agencies like DARPA.
John Randall, the company's CEO, says the new system will be "really useful for research that's going to lead to better quantum computers"—eventually leading to one "that can do the ridiculous number of fabulous things that they say it's going to do.”
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by Alex Edwards |
Apr 14, 2021
Dallas-based Hunt Perovskite Technologies, part of Hunt Consolidated Inc, is one of the 22 selected for a new program from the DOE dedicated to making perovskite photovoltaic devices commercially available. If validated, the tech could make solar cells more efficient at a lower cost—but first, the projects have to overcome the issue of it being too unstable to commercially use.
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This video capture shows the atomic details of the interaction between the STING tail (yellow) and TBK1 (blue and cyan). [Credit: Conggang Zhang, Guijun Shang and Nature]
Discovery: UTSW Studies Tiny Membrane Protein, UTD Prof Gets $2.4M for ‘Atomically Precise Manufacturing’
by Lance Murray | Mar 8, 2019
You'll also find out about a UT Dallas physicist developing a new way to control light that comes from crystal seminconductors in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 15, 2019
You'll also find out about how a team led by a UTA professor is competing for a piece of the $4 million prize in a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy in this roundup of research and development happening in North Texas.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 16, 2018
Also, you'll learn about why Mark Cuban invested in a company developing treatments for rare diseases, and why two UT Southwestern researchers are being honored in this roundup of research activity in North Texas aimed at making our lives better.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 2, 2018
Also, you'll learn about a UTD professor aiming to improve cochlear implants, as well as the Kinesiology team from TWU preparing for a big space competition and Collin College get a $3.7 million NSF grant. Here are some of the research projects underway in North Texas that could make lives better.
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Image: Atos
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Acquires Atos Quantum Computer to Help in Research
by Lance Murray | Dec 4, 2017
Atos, which has a regional headquarters in Irving, said the Quantum Learning Machine is the highest-performing quantum simulator in the world.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 7, 2017
The Grand Prairie-based business unit will work on increasing energy and water efficiencies at federal facilities nationwide.
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