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recently entered into a five-year agreement with Western Michigan University (WMU) to invest in and jointly staff a 1,000-square-foot testing lab to focus on hybrid drive systems for commercial and military vehicles. Eaton Corp. Eaton hybrid power systems have accumulated more than 30 million miles of road-tested service around the world.

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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). Consumption per capita.

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Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL Since construction was completed in 2006, the SNS has been a world-leading DOE Office of Science user facility that provides powerful advanced scientific capabilities for thousands of researchers from around the world to study energy phenomena and materials from the atomic scale to mesoscales.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have coated SnO 2 nanowires with vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ) using a simple gas-phase-based method. Wang, 2006). Ying Wang, Katsunori Takahashi, Kyoungho Lee, and Guozhong Ca (2006) Nanostructured Vanadium Oxide Electrodes for Enhanced Lithium-Ion Intercalation.

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MAY 16, 2017

Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. A first research project will investigate data privacy control using a technology called secure multi-party computation (MPC).

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AUGUST 30, 2015

A working paper by a team at the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley, has found that 60% of the $18 billion in US federal income clean energy tax credits issued between 2006 and 2012—e.g., Since 2006, tax expenditures for these “clean energy” tax credits have exceeded $18 billion. billion.

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AC Propulsion has delivered an AC Propulsion-powered eBox to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where it will be used to evaluate Vehicle to Grid (V2G) operation as part of a research program. The University of Delaware (UD) has developed communication and control systems for V2G technology and has had good results on the US grid.

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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. mm of global sea level rise per year.

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It was developed in 2012 by then University of Toronto graduate students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever and their faculty advisor, Geoffrey Hinton. at the University of Edinburgh in 1978, Hinton had become a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD, where he collaborated with David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams. What Is AlexNet?

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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Headquartered in Sunnyvale California, Plug and Play’s global network includes more than 300 tech startups, 180 investors and a community of leading Universities and Corporate partners. Since its founding in 2006, Plug and Play startups have raised more than $1 billion in funding.

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New York City Clean Air Taxi rules are successful in cutting emissions and reducing air pollution, [link] to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Drexel University. —Dustin Fry, MPH, a researcher at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Tabb, Gina S.

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The awards continue a commitment by the two agencies begun in 2006 to conduct fundamental research in biomass genomics that will establish a scientific foundation to facilitate and accelerate the use of woody plant tissue for bioenergy and biofuel. Jeffrey Dangl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Earlier post.).

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That analysis covered years 1994 through 2006. The results indicate that the monthly pattern of fatalities per distance driven for 2009 through 2018 is similar to that for 1994 through 2006, with the rate being lowest during late winter and early spring and highest during fall. The chart below shows the results.

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The University of California, Davis announced the appointment of Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart of the university’s Graduate School of Management to the Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency. Established in 2006, the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is the first university center of excellence in energy efficiency.

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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The basic design was developed by the Technical University of Chemnitz between 2006 and 2010 as part of a larger project investigating the use wood for applications in engineering and the advantages of a targeted design. Intended applications are, for example, in high-speed processing machines and conveyors—i.e.,

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An international group of researchers, headed by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, have shown that graphene has a heat dissipating effect on silicon-based electronics. According to a study in the USA based on data from 2006, around 50 percent of the total electricity used to run data servers goes on cooling the systems.

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GM’s work on sensor fusion draws on its experience with The Boss, a fully autonomous Chevrolet Tahoe developed by GM, Carnegie Mellon University and other partner companies, and named for GM R&D founder Charles F. 2006) Enhanced Sensor Fusion for Car Safety Applications, SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-0598 doi: 10.4271/2006-01-0598.

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NO x emissions results of biodiesel, renewable, and GTL diesel fuel blends, and CARB diesel fuel for 2006 Cummins ISM. The focus of the paper was on the results of engine dynamometer testing conducted on two on-highway, heavy-duty diesel engines (2006 Cummins and 2007 MBE4000), with a primary focus on understanding biodiesel NO x impacts.

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Sedran holds a Master’s degree in business administration from the University of Hohenheim and a Ph.D. from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Before that he spent 12 years at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (1994-2006), where he last was in charge of the Competence Automotive Center on a global level.

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2001 to 2006. -5%. Measures of motorization in the US. Peak year(s). Reduction in 2011 from the peak. Vehicles per person, per licensed driver, and per household. Distance driven. Distance driven per person, per licensed driver, per household, and per vehicle. Fuel consumed. 2003 to 2004. -13% 13% to -17%.

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University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 This grant is to the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, in collaboration with the University of California Agricultural Issues Center, Kearney Foundation for Soil Science, and the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.

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Launched in 2006 with BP as the inaugural founding member, the MITEI conducts multidisciplinary research aimed at tackling complex energy challenges such as increasing energy supply, improving efficiency, and addressing environmental impacts of energy consumption. —Ellen Williams, BP’s Chief Scientist.

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2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010). Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Founded in 2006, Australia-based Hydrexia is a spin-off of the University of Queensland and is seeking to commercialize a magnesium hydride hydrogen storage technology.

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MARCH 31, 2012

Between FY 2002 and 2009, FFRDC expenditures increased an average of 5% each year, with the exception of a brief stall in FY 2006. Each FFRDC is operated, managed, and/or administered by a university or university consortium, a nonprofit organization, or an industrial firm, either as an autonomous organization or as a separate operating unit.

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A new study by researchers from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) suggests that the effect of wave activity on oceans should be incorporated in long-term climate and weather prediction models. The study analysed oceanographic data supplied by Woodside Energy Ltd.

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Yaghi, who will also hold an appointment with the University of California (UC) Berkeley chemistry department, comes to Berkeley from UCLA, where he was the Jean Stone Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, among other positions. from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1990.

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A team from the University of California Riverside and the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has found a declining emissions (NO x , PM) benefit from the use of California diesel compared to US Federal diesel fuels given the continuing advances in engine and aftertreatment technology.

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de Boer will be joining the consultancy group KPMG as Global Adviser on Climate and Sustainability, as well as working with a number of universities. de Boer was appointed Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC in September 2006. Yvo de Boer.

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In a paper in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining , Professor John Regalbuto, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes what he calls “ a real sea change ” in the direction of US federal funding for biomass conversion into biofuels. —Regalbuto 2011. Regalbuto, J.

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Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The technology is to be commercialized by a spin-out from the University, MOF Technologies. Example of mechanochemical production of a MOF. Pichon et al.

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MAY 13, 2009

The much-anticipated reexamination certificate for US Patent 6,514,640—one of the lithium iron phosphate battery patents invented by Goodenough and colleagues, assigned to the University of Texas, and licensed exclusively to Hydro-Quebec—has been published.

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Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. —Daniel Cohan.

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M&M first introduced the Hy-Alfa in January 2006. A biennial congress of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, WHTC-2009 was hosted in New Delhi, by IndianOil, India’s flagship national oil company, and SIAM, in association with Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

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degrees Fahrenheit), according to the research by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; Florida State University; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Temperatures in some remote areas increase by as much as 1 degree Celsius (1.8 —Ming Cai.

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