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The LA Department of Transportation (LADOT) launched its Universal Basic Mobility (UBM) Pilot in South Los Angeles—one of the largest programs of its kind in the country, increasing access to transportation options for thousands of Angelenos.
hours flight duration as well as an aircraft with up to 40 passengers and a range of up to 2000 km (1200 miles). The MAHEPA consortium includes Pipistrel Vertical Solutions, Compact Dynamics, DLR, H2Fly, Politecnico di Milano, TU Delft, University of Maribor and University of Ulm.
Colorado State University has obtained a 5-year, $5-million grant from BP to study mechanisms involved with technology for oil recovery from “watered-out” wells. 2000) Water Control. Bill Bailey et al. Oilfield Review.
Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability. 2 for the OER), outperforming the conventional non-noble metal-based electrodes.
Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Total consumption (millions of gallons). Therefore, the table below shows the consumptions per capita for selected years between 1965 and 2020. Consumption per capita (gallons).
The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. Resources.
Global sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions peaked in the early 1970s and decreased until 2000, with an increase in recent years due to increased emissions in China, international shipping, and developing countries in general, according to a new analysis appearing in the open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Credit: Smith et al.
Useful cycle life of >2000. >4.5V COBRA incorporates environmental impact studies to help ensure that the carbon footprint of the end product is reduced, by eliminating cobalt and other toxic or scarce elements, while using metal components with recyclability of more than 95%. voltage window enabling stable SEI/CEI formation.
GMG) reported initial performance data for graphene-enhanced aluminum-ion batteries developed by GHG and the University of Queensland (UQ). University of Queensland testing data. Australia-based Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. GMG graphene is being used to produce coin cell prototypes for customer testing in Q4 2021. 2017, 8:14283 2.
Collaborating on the paper were scientists from Utrecht University, the Netherlands Royal Meteorological Institute, Delft University of Technology, Bristol University (UK) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA). —Professor Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol, co-author.
from 2000 to 2017. in 2000 to 0.7% in 2000 to 8.9% Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. GDP attributed to truck transportation as a percentage of the total GDP decreased from 1.0%
Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and aerosols alone (black); (ii) that obtained including the stratospheric water decline after 2000 (red); and (iii) including both the stratospheric water vapor decline after 2000 and the increase in the 1980s and 1990s (cyan). Credit: Solomon et al., Click to enlarge.
Lamp received his MSc in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1989. Between 1994 and 2000 he was group leader at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage of the Bayerischen Zentrum für angewandte Energieforschung (ZAE) in Garching. In 1993, he obtained his PhD in general physics.
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Sea by 43,000 times (i.e., to 9013.43 ppm) with a nominal Li/Mg selectivity >45 million.
A team from the University of Delaware and the University of Denver has created a new global simulation model to predict how urban land will change over the next 100 years under different social and economic conditions. million km 2 in 2000). million km 2 in 2000). m 2 in 2000 to 246?m million to 3.6 million to 3.6
1994) and Seel and Dahn (2000), along with many others. The Power Japan Plus cell is based on the work of Professor Tatsumi Ishihara at Kyushu University in Japan; Power Japan Plus will continue developing the dual carbon battery technology in partnership with Prof. Ishihara and the university. Click to enlarge. Seel and J.
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By mimicking fibrinolysis, a biological self-healing process, researchers at China’s Tsinghua University have developed a self-healing sulfur microparticle (SMiP) cathode. In a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , the researchers report that the SMiP cathode attained an optimized capacity (∼3.7 mg (S) cm −2.
Cuberg spun out of Stanford University in 2015 with the goal of commercializing next-generation battery technology based on a liquid electrolyte combined with a lithium metal anode. Testing in 2020 showed specific energy of 369 Wh/kg; specific power output of 2000 W/kg; and a C/2 cycle life of 370 cycles.
Radiative forcing due to perpetual constant year 2000 emissions grouped by sector for 2020 (left) and 2100 (right) showing the contribution from each species. The net sum of total radiative forcing is indicated by the title of each bar. From Unger et al., Click to enlarge. Unger et al. —Unger et al. A hat-tip to Tom!).
The authors analyzed measurements from several independent sources—satellites and several types of ground instruments—and found a definitive increase in stratospheric aerosol since 2000. The increase in aerosols since 2000 implies a cooling effect of about 0.1 watts per square meter—enough to offset some of the 0.28
Janghyuk Moon at Chung-Ang University for theoretical validation of the effectiveness of this material’s design. —Kang et al. Dr. Byung Gon Kim’s team at KERI collaborated with Prof.
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each year between 2000 and 2010—three times the rate of increase during the 1990s. Global CO 2 emissions since 2000 are tracking the high end of the projections used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which far exceed two degrees warming by 2100. On average, fossil fuel emissions have risen by 3.1%
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A team from Zhejiang A&F University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), and Stanford University have developed a binder-free, flexible, and free-standing electrode comprising an unprecedented 92% silicon content for Li-ion batteries. The structure shows an ultrahigh electrode-specific capacity of 2700 mAh g ?1
Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Production as % of reserves. Between 1980 and 2020, production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves of crude oil decreased for both the United States (from 10.1%
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The BP-ICAM will be modelled on a “hub and spoke” structure, with the hub located within The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, which has core strengths in materials, engineering, characterization, collaborative working. The University of Cambridge also has a long association with BP.
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Emission rates of BC in the year 2000 by region, indicating major source categories in each region. Total global emissions of black carbon using bottom-up inventory methods are 7500 Gg yr -1 in the year 2000 with an uncertainty range of 2000 to 29000. Source: Bond et al. Click to enlarge. W m -2 (+0.17 W m -2 range).
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Over the past year the Dynamics and Control group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) (The Netherlands) has developed a battery electric research vehicle based on a VW Lupo 3L 1.2 The donor Lupo, the old diesel powertrain, and the new electric powertrain. Click to enlarge. kW, 260 - 520 V DC out, programmable, water cooled, CAN.
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Researchers at Wuhan University (China) have synthesized a Sb/C (antimony/carbon) nanocomposite for use as an anode material in a room-temperature sodium-ion (Na-ion) battery. A comparison of the cycling capacities of the metallic Sb and the Sb/C nanocomposite electrode at a current rate of 100 mA/g. Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge.
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In addition to his experience at Khosla Ventures and Cargill, co-president Doug Cameron is currently a consulting professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and was formerly a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1986 to 2000.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have used high-speed imaging of diesel injection spray to provide insights into transient fuel spray behavior and to guide the development of the next generation of spray theory and models. kg/m 3 (±3%) and for fuel-rail pressures of 1,000, 1,500, and 2000 bar (±1.5%).
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