Archive for 2010
Bad news for advanced ceramic & glass world: China enforcing new rare earths export restrictions
According to new reports in BusinessWeek and Metal-Pages, China is cutting export quotas for the rare earths and metals –…
Read MoreDOE’s Nuclear Energy University program announces $18 million in scholarships and grants
There’s more than $18 million in new funding coming to students and U.S. university programs that are focusing on nuclear…
Read MoreFriday federal funding facts: Life in the slow lane
For a change, I am going to start my macro-level observations by looking at the National Science Foundation. As indicated…
Read MoreKudos: Dickey named Texas Tech engineering dean
Congratulations go out to ACerS member Elizabeth Dickey for being tapped as the next dean of the Edward E. Whitacre…
Read MoreSolar-assisted electric car charging stations break ground in Tennessee
The Department of Energy is teaming up with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Oak Ridge National Lab to make it…
Read MoreCO2 utilization versus sequestration: DOE funds research to put CO2 to use for products, energy
So far, nearly all of the discussion regarding what to do about high CO2 levels has focused on sequestration, i.e.,…
Read MoreNREL’s new AC process to ease the heat wave burden
I’m dreading my next electricity bill. With this heat wave, I don’t think my AC unit has stopped running once…
Read MoreTesla: Come on and take a free ride . . . or not
Last Friday I was working out of South Boston, and after being cooped up in a hotel room most of…
Read MoreDOE commits to $1.45B loan for concentrating solar and $400M for thin solar
Today the Administration announced that the DOE agreed to guarantee large loans for two separate solar power equipment makers, Abengoa…
Read MoreMaterials-oriented schools make top-25 of BusinessWeek’s ‘best bargain’
It’s great to see that a large number of schools that we reference in this blog made it to Bloomberg…
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