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7 hours ago, nodakvindy said:

UND needs to expand more into cold weather research.  Talk to the Twitter King and get some money poured into a research facility for electric cars.  If they can be made more viable in cold weather that is a huge additional market for Teslas.

Interesting idea, but along with it you need to get EERC to work on the infrastructure issues that come with vehicle electrification.

Imagine if you will, adding just one electric car into each garage in your neighborhood. Is your power distributor (Xcel, Otter Tail Power, local REC) ready for that? Are the cables large enough? Are the transformers sized correctly? You will effectively be doubling the household load. Yes, there are present strategies to manage this, like timed home chargers that only activate overnight (off peak times). But just the same, present off peak times are based on 24 hour generation from "turning shafts". If we want to go solar/wind those don't tend to produce well on a calm overnight. And large scale energy storage at reasonable cost is still not here. 

Electric cars bring plethora of associated issues: generation, transmission, distribution, energy storage. That's before the real issue temperature vindy brings up is even broached. Oh ... and you need the minerals, from iron and copper, to lithium and cobalt, to do all this. 

Sounds like the EERC's wheelhouse, especially with built in laboratories at hand (the climate in GF, Minnkota Power, Basin Electric of Bismarck, OTP Co). 

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9 hours ago, nodakvindy said:

UND needs to expand more into cold weather research.  Talk to the Twitter King and get some money poured into a research facility for electric cars.  If they can be made more viable in cold weather that is a huge additional market for Teslas.

Great idea.  It will be valuable on everything from snowblowers to heavy equipment.  It’s coming whether everyone is ready for it or not. 

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1 minute ago, homer said:

It’s coming whether everyone is ready for it or not

That bold part is my fear. (Our electrical infrastructure is not in place to supply the kW/BTUs we currently get from gas/diesel.) 

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12 hours ago, nodakvindy said:

UND needs to expand more into cold weather research.  Talk to the Twitter King and get some money poured into a research facility for electric cars.  If they can be made more viable in cold weather that is a huge additional market for Teslas.

I'm sure Armacost could have a great conversation with him about space, as well.  Could technology from the Boring company be used in an underground flood diversion system?  Better research that.

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3 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

Interesting idea, but along with it you need to get EERC to work on the infrastructure issues that come with vehicle electrification.

Imagine if you will, adding just one electric car into each garage in your neighborhood. Is your power distributor (Xcel, Otter Tail Power, local REC) ready for that? Are the cables large enough? Are the transformers sized correctly? You will effectively be doubling the household load. Yes, there are present strategies to manage this, like timed home chargers that only activate overnight (off peak times). But just the same, present off peak times are based on 24 hour generation from "turning shafts". If we want to go solar/wind those don't tend to produce well on a calm overnight. And large scale energy storage at reasonable cost is still not here. 

Electric cars bring plethora of associated issues: generation, transmission, distribution, energy storage. That's before the real issue temperature vindy brings up is even broached. Oh ... and you need the minerals, from iron and copper, to lithium and cobalt, to do all this. 

Sounds like the EERC's wheelhouse, especially with built in laboratories at hand (the climate in GF, Minnkota Power, Basin Electric of Bismarck, OTP Co). 

There's no reason solar panels couldn't be built into the roof of a car (or possibly event the hood or trunk).  That would greatly extend range and also take pressure of charging stations.  Same holds true for the roofs of flatbed trailers, that could help power hybrid trucks.

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3 minutes ago, nodakvindy said:

There's no reason solar panels couldn't be built into the roof of a car (or possibly event the hood or trunk).  That would greatly extend range and also take pressure of charging stations.  Same holds true for the roofs of flatbed trailers, that could help power hybrid trucks.

I'm not disagreeing, but our efficiencies and energy storage tech isn't where it need be ... yet.
I think I'll see the tech, but not at scale, in my lifetime. 

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It's no BTAA but regional collaboration is not a bad thing. 

Getting schools from ND, SD, WY, and NE involved gets the attention of eight US Senators (and they control a lot of research dollars). Now, get a MT school onboard for ten Senators then U of Idaho for twelve? 

" ... the goal of moving ideas to commercialization." <-- sounds like UND's Entrepreneurship program fits right in here also. 

https://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2022/09/turning-scientific-advancements-into-societal-benefits/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Aug.+30%2C+2022+issue 

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https://mydakotan.com/2023/04/und-receives-nearly-8-million-critical-minerals-production-facility/

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U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, R-ND, member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the University of North Dakota $7,999,999 to advance construction of an inaugural critical mineral extraction and separation facility. 

 

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EERC is now up to $3.75 million per year in noncompetitive state funding.  Still a ways to go to catch up to NDSU's $55 million for transportation and agricultural research, which they leverage to secure additional grants.

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27 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:

EERC is now up to $3.75 million per year in noncompetitive state funding.

Given the State's unique position (mines, plants, tech, geology) the State should be moving the decimal point one to the right in that number to support carbon capture technology research. It might be the only thing ND's and MN's Senators agree on. 

https://www.projecttundrand.com/ 

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https://www.am1100theflag.com/news/regional-news/66396-und-receives-funding-for-advanced-nursing-program 

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(Washington, DC)  --  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of North Dakota funding it needs to support an important nursing education program.  

Senator Kevin Cramer says the university will receive over 585-thousand-dollars for the Advanced Nursing Education-Nurse Practitioner Residency Program.  

The money will help prepare Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to provide primary care for the expansion of a Nurse Practitioner residency and training programs.

 

 

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University of North Dakota Wins $517K Cyber Research Grant

 

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The research group has been awarded $3.5 million for the project, with UND receiving $517,000 for its share. The project is attached to the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

"There's been a big push from the administration about how we can put UND on the map in cybersecurity," said Prakash Ranganathan, an associate professor of electrical engineering and director of UND's Center for Cyber Security Research. "We're trying to grow, and part of that is going after federal dollars."

 

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