Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?” The category mistake is obvious: A university is an institution, not a collection of buildings. It is just the opposite for the decarbonization of the energy supply.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 8, 2024

No combustion=no engine noise Conversely, gas-powered cars generate noise through vibrations and other engine mechanisms when operating. A 2024 University of Houston study found EVs reduced mortality rates and improved air quality in New York and other large metro areas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Acetic acid is toxic to fermenting microorganisms and negatively influences sugar fermentation and biofuel yields. cerevisiae.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. At least part of the answer has to do with how the lithium particles deposit on the metal anode surface.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 31, 2022

They reach out from their exhibit case to spark conversations with visitors: “I remember Grandma having a slide rule like that.” I encountered this funny-looking calculator during a recent visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science , at the University of Cambridge. Which brings me to the object at top.

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Cars That Think

MAY 1, 2023

It’s a rite of passage, a vital part of the process of being selected by IEEE as a Medal of Honor recipient. Perry wrote her first article for Spectrum in 1980. Only a handful of engineering luminaries know what it feels like to get “The Call” from IEEE Spectrum senior editor Tekla S. Perry Residence: Palo Alto, Calif. Education: B.A.,

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It holds networking events, provides educational resources, and publishes career-related articles on its blog. The group’s goal is to engage as many young professionals as possible in the conversation about how to get involved in the climate and sustainability sectors,” says Sajith Wijesuriya , CSTF chair.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

All are from NREL; Crisp also is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines, and Pach and Marshall are affiliated with the University of Colorado, Boulder. High solar conversion efficiency is key for a viable technology as that directly impacts the land area to be covered and ultimately impacts the cost of the system. 1209845.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

In part of the visible spectrum (400–485?nm), nm), the energy conversion efficiency and apparent quantum yield reaches ~8.75% and ~20%, respectively—the highest values ever reported for one-step visible-light driven photocatalytic overall pure water splitting. in neutral (pH?~?7.0) overall water splitting reaction.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2013

Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S. The power density of a commercialized low-temperature SOFC system developed by researchers at the University of Maryland and Redox Power is also more than 2W cm -2 , earlier post.). Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 2426 doi: 10.1038/srep02426.

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Baua Electric

JULY 20, 2024

The memorandum of understanding inked during a “critical raw materials summit” in Belgrade is seen as the first step in developing Serbia’s lithium resources and potentially moving up the supply chain to include manufacturing lithium batteries and component parts. million electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

Methane monooxygenases (MMOs), found in methanotrophic bacteria, are selective catalysts for methane activation and conversion to methanol under mild conditions; however, these enzymes are not amenable to standard enzyme immobilization approaches. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct. Craig D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2011

A study by a team from the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum found that fluid thermal processing of. Direct thermal conversion can be a more feasible process to obtain bitumen-derived liquid products from oil-wet oil sand, they say. Energy & Fuels Article ASAP doi: /10.1021/ef200644.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 10, 2022

In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. To begin with, we have updated Misty's conversational skills, focusing on both improved NLU capabilities and added more languages. So what is new, we hear you ask?

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Enclosed in an open steel frame, all of the parts could be seen. It only took 50 milliseconds to capture the image, but it took 23 seconds to record it to the tape,” Sasson said in the 2015 Times article.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 30, 2022

Then the conversation turned more serious. He had earned a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1946 and a master’s in electrical engineering in 1949, both from Columbia University. Beginning in 1973, VAL became a part of Unimation’s industrial robots. The new line of robots was just part of a bigger plan to ratchet up productivity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. Yuste, a professor of biology at Columbia University who studies neural circuitry, has been promoting the idea of neurorights for nearly a decade now. Spain’s new.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. And contrary to its corporate culture, it used off-the-shelf parts and software that the company didn't write. James Cortada is both a Ph.D. historian and a 38-year veteran of IBM.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Model scope includes all upstream processing of biomass material; conversion to liquid or solid fuel is intentionally excluded. Biofuel conversion processes were excluded from the scope of the analysis. These so-called ‘indirect’ changes are associated with conversion of arable land into production and were not included here.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2022

Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA, she designed one of the first systems for analog-to-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If low-content methanol-gasoline blended fuels are used in current port fuel injection (PFI) gasoline engines, the conversion efficiencies of unburned methanol and formaldehyde emissions on the conventional three-way catalyst (TWC) need to be intensively evaluated. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef900974p.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. New York University’s. These researchers were recruited to NYU Tandon as part of a “cluster hire” over two years from 2017-2019 to anchor Tandon Dean Jelena Kova?evi?’s s vision for cross-department collaboration in a wide-ranging robotics program.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The article is in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union. That campaign was conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Department of Energy, universities, and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

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Teslarati

JUNE 20, 2021

Couple this with Elon Musk noting that Autopilot was not involved, and it was no surprise that the crash became a topic for analysis and conversations among Tesla supporters. There was only one problem: the whole premise of the article was false. To add salt to the wound, Texas Rep.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Similar mismatches between climate policy desires and an energy infrastructure incapable of supporting those policies will play out across not only in the United States but elsewhere in one form or another over the next two decades as conversion to EVs and electric appliances moves to scale. This situation is not true universally.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the previous article , we looked at the various losses incurred on the AC side of the circuit while charging an EV’s battery (from the breaker in the load center to the EVSE inlet on the EV), as well as things that could be done to minimize them, either by the OEM, the electrical contractor or the EV owner.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Terpenes are biosynthesized from the C 5 universal precursors isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Finally, we demonstrated the conversion of biosynthetic bisabolene into bisabolane using chemical hydrogenation. Nature Communications 2, Article number: 483 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1494. coil and S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $16 million in funding for 17 projects as part of Phase 1 of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Ultrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency (ULTIMATE) program. University of Maryland. University of Virginia. University of Utah.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Larsson Blind, who comes from a family of reindeer herders, spoke to IEEE Spectrum by video call from her home in the northernmost part of Sweden. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as "Planet-Cooling Tests Could Start in 2022.". candidate in V.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2015

While a conventional cathode stores ions between the layers of its molecular structure (intercalation) the metal fluorides store them via a reversible electrochemical reaction, called a conversion reaction. Although poor electronic and ionic transport plague many conversion electrodes, recent studies show that the electronic conductivity in?FeF

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. Cost effective solar fuel generation is hindered by the semiconductor material not meeting certain essential criteria to achieve highly efficient solar to hydrogen conversion.

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. Wiener suggested that Amar G.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Per our brief conversing on EV educational tour this afternoon, here's a more descriptive outline of the Tour de AZ: "Spirit of DC" PHEV3Al Tour helpfully with lots of team building to provide needed coordination with some 15 county seats of government as starters per Listing of Arizona Counties as follows: 1. CALCars News not copied].

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Not so fast, exclaim researchers at Stanford University, who state that charging EVs during the day is actually cheaper, better for the grid, and healthier for the environment. The result is a 12-part series and e-book, The EV Transition Explained , that explores the tightly woven technological, policy, and social issues involved.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 21, 2024

Cook, Carpenter, and Porter collaborated as part of Lucasfilm ’s computer graphics research group, an entity that later became Pixar. While at the University of Utah, Blanchard designed and built hardware that clipped 3D shapes to only what was potentially visible. Hanrahan joined Pixar after its launch.

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