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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Cars That Think

In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. Inside the tank, a technician in a yellow dinghy adjusts equipment so that the triangled structure can be hoisted into the water to see how it deals with simulated waves and currents. s next frontier.

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New robust triple-layer bifunctional catalyst for water splitting with earth-abundant materials

Green Car Congress

A new robust and highly active bifunctional catalyst developed by Rice University and the University of Houston splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without the need for expensive metals such as platinum. The lower you can get it, the closer you come to making it as efficient as possible for water splitting. —Kenton Whitmire.

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What You Need to Know About EVs Catching Fire

Clean Fleet Report

It was a destructive, Category 4 hurricane, bringing catastrophic storm surges, heavy rainfall and intense, sustained winds. Recent reports suggest several EVs caught fire due to water damage caused by severe flooding in the most heavily impacted areas. The Effects of Water Damage in EVs. EV Fires in Florida After Hurricane Ian.

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BOEM releases for comment draft EIS on G&G survey activities to develop energy resources in Mid- and South Atlantic

Green Car Congress

The PEIS describes and evaluates the potential environmental impacts of G&G survey activities in Federal waters of the Mid- and South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and adjacent State waters for three program areas (oil and gas, renewable energy, and marine minerals) during the 2012-2020 time period. Savannah, Ga.;

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Chevrolet introduces new Cruze; new 1.4L EcoTec turbo, new 1.6L diesel coming to US in 2017

Green Car Congress

Chevrolet will add a new clean diesel engine to the US lineup in 2017, featuring a B20-capable 1.6L The cylinder head has a water-cooled exhaust manifold integrated within the aluminum casting. Wind tunnel-optimized design. diesel already proven in Europe and other global markets. Models equipped with the 1.5L

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I got a rare look behind the scenes at Ananda’s e-bike systems factory in China

Baua Electric

They’ve long built many types of hub motors for e-bikes and scooters, but expanded into their own mid-drive electric bike motors in 2017. That all-encompassing approach has necessitated a huge footprint, with the company touting over 1,000 employees and over 200 automated machines, 70 of which are just for automated coil winding.

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Stanford study finds energy requirements of super-giant oilfields can significantly increase over time

Green Car Congress

Time-series trends in normalized upstream GHG intensities of twenty-five global oil fields (offshore and onshore) with dfferent extraction practices (water injection/flooding, gas injection/flooding/lifting, or steam flooding) over the course of production in the period of 1949–2015. Masnadi & Brandt (2017). a, Heavy oils. Mohammad S.

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