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Aurora Supercomputer Blade Installation Complete

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Thursday, June 22, 2023
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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230622628670/en/
    On June 22, 2023, Argonne National Laboratory, Intel and HPE announced that the installation progress of the Aurora Supercomputer is complete.
  • “Aurora is the first deployment of Intel’s Max Series GPU, the biggest Xeon Max CPU-based system, and the largest GPU cluster in the world.
  • The installation of these blades has been a delicate operation, with each 70-pound blade requiring specialized machinery to be vertically integrated into Aurora's refrigerator-sized racks.
  • Researchers from the ALCF’s Aurora Early Science Program (ESP) and DOE’s Exascale Computing Project will migrate their work from the Sunspot test bed to the fully installed Aurora.

Navistar Reveals International® SuperTruck II Results with Improved Fuel and Freight Efficiency, Goals for Hybridization

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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LISLE, Ill., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Navistar today revealed the results of the International® SuperTruck II, a project in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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  • LISLE, Ill., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Navistar today revealed the results of the International® SuperTruck II, a project in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
  • International SuperTruck II demonstrates 16 miles per gallon (MPG) fuel efficiency through hybridization and a 170% improvement in freight efficiency, among other advancements over the 2009 baseline vehicle, its International SuperTruck I .
  • "Navistar is the only OEM to build a trailer to provide the most accurate testing results possible," said Dean Oppermann, chief engineer, Advanced Truck.
  • The SuperTruck II program moves Navistar toward its vision to accelerate the impact of sustainable mobility.

Visionary report unveils ambitious roadmap to harness the power of AI in scientific discovery

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Monday, June 12, 2023
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The sessions brought together over 1,000 scientists, engineers and staff from DOE labs, academia and technology companies to talk about the rapidly emerging opportunities and challenges of scientific AI.

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  • The sessions brought together over 1,000 scientists, engineers and staff from DOE labs, academia and technology companies to talk about the rapidly emerging opportunities and challenges of scientific AI.
  • The report identifies six AI capabilities and describes their potential to transform DOE’s program areas.
  • These range from control of complex systems like power grids to foundation models like the large language models behind generative AI programs such as ChatGPT.
  • “There’s so much untapped potential for AI innovations to both drive new scientific discoveries and speed up the pace of those discoveries.

NovaCHARGE Joins the National Charging Experience Consortium

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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ORLANDO, Fla., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- NovaCHARGE, Inc. proudly announces their participation in the ChargeX National Charging Experience Consortium.

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  • Funded by the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office), this consortium is led by three national laboratories: The Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
  • "NovaCHARGE is committed to providing seamless EV charging for everyone , which aligns with the mission of the ChargeX Consortium.
  • The ChargeX National Charging Experience Consortium is made up of leading EV industry stakeholders, including some of the largest automakers in the world.
  • ChargeX includes three working groups that will focus on a few primary objectives — defining the charging experience, triaging charging reliability and usability, and developing solutions for scaling reliability.

ABTC Hits Major Technical Milestones on Path to Commercializing Lithium Hydroxide Refining Operations in Nevada

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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RENO, Nev., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Battery Technology Company (ABTC) (OTCQX: ABML), an American critical battery materials company that is commercializing both its primary minerals manufacturing and secondary minerals lithium-ion battery recycling technologies, is proud to  announce that it has achieved all required milestones for the first phase of its U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)  $4.5M grant project for the design, construction, and operations of its lithium hydroxide from Nevada sedimentary claystone system.

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  • "We are excited to have achieved these technical and performance milestones for our internally developed processing train for the manufacturing of battery grade lithium hydroxide from our unconventional Nevada-based sedimentary claystone resource," stated ABTC CEO Ryan Melsert.
  • "There is near-infinite demand from automakers, battery manufacturers, and cathode refiners for this type of domestically produced low cost and low environmental impact lithium hydroxide material, and we are rapidly scaling up our commercial operations to meet this demand from our strategic partners."
  • While the U.S. does not hold large deposits of conventional lithium resources, such as hard rock ores and lithium-rich brines, it does have significant amounts of lithium held in unconventional deposits, such as sedimentary claystone resources.
  • ABTC has now engaged one of the premier global construction firms, Black & Veatch , for the engineering, procurement, and construction firms of its commercial scale lithium hydroxide refinery based on these fundamental metallurgical and mineral processing techniques.

New Low-cost Catalyst Helps Produce Environmentally Sustainable Hydrogen From Water

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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It could make possible the low-cost and energy-efficient production of hydrogen for use in transportation and industrial applications.

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  • It could make possible the low-cost and energy-efficient production of hydrogen for use in transportation and industrial applications.
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    Oxygen bubbles evolving from fibrous, interconnected catalyst particles (right) during electrocatalytic reaction with water.
  • They can split water into hydrogen and oxygen with high efficiency at near room temperature.
  • The cathode catalyst yields hydrogen, while the anode catalyst forms oxygen.

Recycled Battery Materials Achieve Performance Comparable to New

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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
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BORDENTOWN, N.J., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Princeton NuEnergy Inc. ("PNE", "company") today announced results from pouch cell tests conducted by Argonne National Laboratory which show excellent discharge capacity retention using cathode material directly recycled via PNE's unique low-temperature plasma technology. Discharge capacity retention refers to the ability of a battery to retain its full charge capacity after a number of charge and discharge cycles. PNE's patented Cathode-to-Cathode™ direct recycling technology delivered a discharge capacity retention of 83.66% from LCO batteries (used predominantly in consumer electronics) and 88.9% from NCM batteries (used predominantly in electric vehicles) after conducting over 1,000 deep cycles, these results are on par with Li-ion batteries produced with virgin materials. 

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  • Discharge capacity retention refers to the ability of a battery to retain its full charge capacity after a number of charge and discharge cycles.
  • Recycling LIB materials will be crucial to power the clean-tech economy, reduce pricing pressures and minimize environmental impact.
  • Dr. Xiaofang Yang, PNE's Co-founder and CTO, remarked, "We work very hard at PNE to ensure that our rejuvenated materials are of the highest quality.
  • PNE's rejuvenated cathode material shows very comparable cyclability to pristine commercial material and demonstrates that PNE's direct recycling process can recover the electrochemical performance."

Argonne hosts demo day for Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program

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Thursday, May 25, 2023
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Twenty startups will present their technologies for a clean energy future at this year's Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (LEEP) Demo Day June 7 in Chicago.

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  • Twenty startups will present their technologies for a clean energy future at this year's Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (LEEP) Demo Day June 7 in Chicago.
  • LEEP connects entrepreneurs with resources and innovation ecosystems at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs.
  • In addition to demos from companies currently participating in LEEP , the event at the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk will also feature a panel discussion where program graduates share insights and advice about successful entrepreneurship.
  • To learn more about the LEEP Demo Day and register for in-person or hybrid attendance, visit chainreaction.anl.gov/leepdemo-day-2023 .

Snorkel AI Announces Third Annual Future of Data-Centric AI Conference

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Thursday, May 25, 2023
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Snorkel AI , the data-centric AI platform company, today announced the agenda for Future of Data-Centric AI Conference 2023 (FDCAI).

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  • Snorkel AI , the data-centric AI platform company, today announced the agenda for Future of Data-Centric AI Conference 2023 (FDCAI).
  • Held on June 7-8, 2023, this year's virtual event will explore how to leverage new AI advances such as large language models (LLMs), foundation models, generative AI, programmatic labeling, weak supervision, prompting, synthetic data and more—all using data-centric AI workflows.
  • "AI has seen an explosion of innovation in the last few months prompted by the fast rise of large language models,” said Devang Sachdev, VP of Marketing, Snorkel AI.
  • The Future of Data-Centric AI conference is hosted by Snorkel AI in partnership with Gretel AI, Hugging Face, Lambda Labs, Microsoft, Predibase, Seldon AI, and Together.

Lightsource bp’s 152.5MW solar farm in Indiana helping reduce Verizon’s carbon footprint while contributing to leading pollinator habitat research

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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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Lightsource bp developed, financed and will own and operate Bellflower Solar, and has entered into a virtual power purchase agreement with Verizon with respect to the energy generated by Bellflower Solar.

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  • Lightsource bp developed, financed and will own and operate Bellflower Solar, and has entered into a virtual power purchase agreement with Verizon with respect to the energy generated by Bellflower Solar.
  • The renewable energy produced by the Bellflower Solar project will help us achieve net zero operational emissions by 2035.”
    The Bellflower solar farm brings many environmental benefits to Indiana, in addition to improving air quality by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation.
  • An additional 10 acres has been dedicated to lush pollinator gardens with more than 60 different types of flowering plants.
  • The solar farm is participating in a research study which will measure the ecological benefits of pollinator habitat at utility-scale solar.