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Aircraft Fuel Cell Development Takes Flight After UL Lafayette Lands Federal Grant
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An energy storage and power generation system being designed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette could make flying the friendly skies less harmful to the environment.
Posted: Dec 14, 2020 10:20 AM
Posted By: Akemi Briggs
An energy storage and power generation system being designed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette could make flying the friendly skies less harmful to the environment.
Solid oxide fuel cells are “a key component” within that system, said Dr. Xiao-Dong Zhou. Their inclusion in the next generation of electric aircraft could cut carbon emissions – and that’s caught the eye of the U.S. Department of Energy, which awarded UL Lafayette a $2.26 million grant this fall.
Updated December 14, 2020 4:54 p.m. EST
By Noah Y. Kim, PolitiFact reporter
There’s no question the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest events modern Americans have ever grappled with.
But how its death toll compares with other tragedies and natural disasters is being misconstrued in a social media post that purports to list and rank the deadliest days in American history.
The graphic shows that four of the eight deadliest days since the country’s founding took place between Dec. 2 and Dec. 7, 2020. The image places daily COVID-19 deaths from those days alongside death tolls from the Galveston Hurricane, the battle of Antietam, Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.