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Cutting the timeline to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing
Long-term solutions for energy use don’t happen overnight. They are most often found through a lengthy process of trial and error. A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Idaho National Laboratory is working to shorten the timeline for advanced energy …