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This project will contribute to establishing a resilient supply chain for rare-earth elements (REEs) and other critical materials in the U.S., significantly reducing the reliance that now leaves us highly vulnerable to foreign control of rare-earth metals—the ‘vitamins of a modern society.’ Rare-earth metals enable advanced manufacturing, clean transportation, efficient computing, power gene ...

In the United States, transportation is the leading source of emissions among major industries. This puts pressure on cities to optimize transportation infrastructures to meet decarbonization goals. City planners are required to ingest data from a variety of sources and balance a wide array of priorities ranging from mobility and equality to safety and sustainability. Making decisions for optimal ...

C53-22c-271119Meeting climate-stabilizing energy transition goals requires using hybrid-energy CO2 capture systems like Direct Air Capture (DAC) to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. Deploying this capacity will be difficult because it is complex and energy intensive infrastructure, and there must also be buy- in from communities living in locations best suited for it. The chall ...

Air quality data from top-of-the-line platforms, such as satellites, are difficult to obtain without a high- level of technical knowledge. For this reason, local air quality patterns and trends are often inaccessible to disadvantaged communities (DACs). Many technologies that will be used for deep decarbonization of industrial and power facilities have the added co-benefit of reducing non-CO2 poll ...

This proposal addresses the widespread problem of dead zones and reliability in large format circuit assembly. This problem is caused by the high soldering temperature needed to make high-density interconnects in thin semiconductor chips using flip chip solder bump bonding technology. The size scales for the solder interconnects are not accessible via traditional low-cost solder printing or ball m ...

The United States is heavily reliant on imports of mineral commodities vital to national security and economic prosperity. Long lead times needed for adequate environmental review of new mining projects, which hinge on water quality predictions using scale-up of laboratory tests, is inhibiting development of domestic mineral supply. A critical gap in the existing approach for environmental review ...

This project will contribute to establishing a resilient supply chain for rare-earth elements (REEs) and other critical materials in the U.S., significantly reducing the reliance that now creates high vulnerability to foreign control of rare-earth metals—the ‘vitamins of a modern society.’ REEs enable advanced manufacturing, clean transportation, efficient computing, power generation, energy ...

In topic 10.a, Advanced Geothermal Energy Storage, BiDirectional Energy Storage, the Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office seeks to enable innovative geothermal technologies that improve the cost and effectiveness of energy storage, including for direct use and/or use with heat pumps to provide building space heating and cooling. Heating and cooling constitute approximately 48% of bu ...

This project will develop a state-of-the-art numerical modeling tool for accurate and efficient analysis of performance and design of emplacement rooms for geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste. The modeling tool will be capable of predicting long-term stability of the rooms and the evolution of damage and permeability in the surrounding rock formation, which are critical for understandi ...

This novel approach to making cement at ambient temperature uses 55% Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) incinerator ash AND adds chemicals and wastes to sequester environmentally problematic combustion gases, chemicals and heavy metals during incineration, that in turn eliminates undesired chemicals in the final product leachate. The main project objective is the development of a novel cement product bas ...