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OCTOBER 29, 2013

The National Science Foundation has selected a project by researchers at the University of Maryland and their partners from Genovation Cars ( earlier post ) for a $438,418 GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) award to develop a novel hybrid energy storage system for electric vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Source: Woolmer and McCulloch 2007. The Yokeless And Segmented Armature (YASA) topology is a new type of axial flux motor that has no stator yoke, a high fill factor and short end windings which all increase torque density and efficiency of the machine. Malcolm McCulloch and Dr. Tim Woolmer at OXford University. million (US$2.3

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was the third lowest for that month in the satellite record, after 2007 and 2006, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado. The average rate of melt in July 2009 was nearly identical to that of the record melt of July 2007. Credit: NSIDC.

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JULY 3, 2009

GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a world-class carbon composites manufacturing Center of Excellence on the TUM campus in Garching, near Munich, Germany.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In November 2007, Mantra acquired 100% outright ownership of the Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) technology, developed by the University of British Columbia’s Clean Energy Research Center. Formic acid is used in numerous industry applications worldwide and has a current market value of $1,400/tonne.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Summers in the Arctic may be nearly ice-free in as few as 30 years or even earlier, not at the end of the century as previously expected, according to a new study by a pair of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington. Credit: University of Washington / NOAA.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

A new study led by researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen has determined that for the last 10,000 years, the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has varied widely. This is probably due to changes in the prevailing wind systems. —Svend Funder, team leader.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Changes in SOC.

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JUNE 23, 2012

The factors that affect local sea-level projections include steric variations; wind-driven differences in ocean heights; gravitational and deformational effects (sea-level. The local steric and wind-driven components were estimated by extracting northeast Pacific data from the same ocean models used for the global projections.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

To support this approach, the ReFactory will also include an incubator, open to start-ups, academic partners, large groups, local authorities and intrapreneurship, as well as a training center, backed by a university center, to promote know-how and accelerate research in the circular economy.

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MAY 25, 2009

Aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle sideways over their surfaces could significantly reduce drag and thus cut fuel consumption and emissions by 20%, according to researchers at the University of Warwick (UK). It was discovered, essentially, by waggling a piece of wing from side to side in a wind tunnel. million (US$1.75-million)

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Australia’s cities often employ flexible water conservation goals, depending on water catchment levels that support a given city; for example, South East Queensland employed a “Target 140” campaign in 2007, when a water crisis coincided with a need to upgrade existing infrastructure. Source: University of New South Wales.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

China and South Korea have catalyzed their domestic R&D by making significant investments in the S&T research enterprise and enhancing S&T training at universities. In 2012, emerging economies invested nearly $100 billion in clean energy, primarily wind and solar, with China serving as the primary driver of investment with $61 billion.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Seeo was founded in 2007 with an exclusive license to advanced technology from LBNL, and with initial funding from Khosla Ventures. University of California at San Diego will receive $95,000 to reduce the cost of biomass power generation by removing tar from the producer gas in the gasifier. Membrane Technology and Research Inc.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” Their research partnership ran for four years. That could change soon.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

The team’s research could help scientists improve computer models that describe how dust-sized aerosols such as air pollution ride the winds across continents and oceans. Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions. perturbation (µg/m 3 ) attributable to aviation. Credit: ACS, Barrett et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 26, 2009

a positive feedback), according to a new study of the NE Pacific by researchers from the University of Miami and UC San Diego. Low-level stratiform clouds—which play an important climatic role because of their net cooling effect on the global climate—appear to dissipate as the ocean warms, thereby enhancing the warming (i.e.,

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JUNE 24, 2009

Three of the Midland’s leading universities play a major role in the scheme: Coventry University on the selection of drivers; Aston University in the analysis of vehicle usage; and the University of Birmingham in the use of hydrogen fueling station – theirs is currently one of the very few of its kind in UK.

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JULY 8, 2009

Scientists from NASA and the University of Washington in Seattle conducted the most comprehensive survey to date using observations from NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite ( ICESat ) to make the first basin-wide estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover. Click to enlarge. .

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MARCH 6, 2010

Example: a regulated entity may purchase offsets generated through the development of a wind farm in a nation that has not established GHG emissions targets. In addition, the nation, in which the wind farm is located, would likely see an emissions reduction due to the wind farm. 2) Examples of Renewable Energy Projects.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. Professor Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. Appleyard, Planning Advisory Service Report Number 546/547, 2007, pp. Island Press, 1998; translated into Chinese, China Architecture and Building Press, 2007. Thornes, B.

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For the study, the team reconstructed the vehicle technology portfolios from two national vehicle studies (the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles by the Electric Power Research Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council; and the 2009 Multi-Path Transportation Futures study by Argonne National Laboratory).

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JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. billion in 2004 to $117 billion 2007 with the first three quarters of 2008 averaging 29% higher than 2007. Energy Markets in a State of Change. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Second Sight conducted an FDA-mandated postapproval study of the Argus II, following 30 patients from 2007 to 2019. On 30 March, Second Sight laid off the majority of its remaining employees and announced its “ intention to wind down operations ,” citing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its ability to secure financing.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Robert Paaswell, director of the University Transportation Research Center, would probably agree. In 2007, the administration announced a plan to replace the city’s 13,000 taxis with conventional hybrid cars by 2012. “We can see a role for more efficient vehicles in a New York City with vastly diminished automobile use.&#.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Heres our three-paragaph summary and a link to the first of several postings on the subject at CalCars-News : July 2007 EPRI-NRDC Definitive Study: PHEVs Will Reduce Emissions If Broadly Adopted The EPRI-NRDC studies finally give an environmental stamp of approval to PHEVs. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. Just think they may have a rapid charging option today. — Tony 11. April 17, 2009 3:47 pm Link 1. I miss my EV1.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# 7 Uncle B said on April 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am This battery is going to absorb peaks from wind-turbines, hitherto dumped to prevent damage to lines! About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. Build the damn cars and watch us change our habits. — Dean Hewitt 20.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. How about a car-mounted wind-generator? See our 2007 Goals and 2006 Report. Just the opposite.

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APRIL 28, 2009

I found two great reads on the subject include; "The GAO Report on Peak Oil, April 7, 2007 Crude Oil - Uncertainty about Future Oil supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production" ; the books "Twlight In The Desert" by Matthew R.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? The Smart Grid Consortium, established in December 2007 by Xcel Energy, will select a community of approximately 100,000 residents to become a Smart Grid City using V2G. The T-Word Barking up the Wrong Tree: Forests vs the CDM in t. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. The small electric will be king and batteries a valuable commodity, so valuable in fact, they will have to be wielded in to prevent theft by the Solar, Wind, Wave, Tidal, folks for their home installations! — Larry 4.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. On a broad level, the IRA enacts the following climate change-mitigation measures which, taken together, put the U.S.

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