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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Source: UT Austin. Production sites near the completions were selected by the study team for sampling based on lists of available sites in the region provided by the participating companies. The findings of the new study are represented in the yellow bar at right, and are similar overall to EPA’s latest inventory. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

The Clean Carbon Conductors team, with members from Rice University and DexMat Co, is designing enhanced-conductivity CNTs by improving fiber quality, alignment, packing density, and by electrochemically doping the CNTs. Each winning team has earned a $25,000 cash prize and a stipend for third-party conductivity testing in Stage 2.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed an optimization framework for hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs and PHEVs) including fuel consumption, motor efficiency, and battery capacity and lifetime. Shaltout et al. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

City of Austin, Austin. Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. University, North. University of Central. . $500,000. Greater Portland.

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JULY 24, 2014

The research team, led by NASA and University of California, Irvine, scientists, used data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ( GRACE ) satellite mission to track changes in the mass of the Colorado River Basin, which are related to changes in water amount on and below the surface. —senior author Jay Famiglietti.

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JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Chevrolet made 100 Chevrolet Volts available for purchase on a priority basis last September to residents participating the Pecan Street Inc.’s

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Engineers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel are developing a mathematical model to lead to a software solution to improve urban bike sharing systems management. There is no system for more scientifically managing the availability of bikes, creating dissatisfaction among users in popular parts of the city. — Dr. Raviv.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island) will develop and test standardized protocols for baseline studies and monitoring for the collection and comparison of scientifically valid and comparable data for specific offshore renewable energy issues. Evaluating Acoustic Technologies to Monitor Aquatic Organisms at Renewable Sites.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

charging infrastructure incentives, preferential charging rates), and public charging availability. The Georgia rebate was revoked in July 2015, and a Texas incentive was limited in its availability throughout the year. The assessment includes promotion actions by state policy (e.g., State regulations also play a key role.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

11-kW Universal Ground Assembly. SAE J2954 establishes a universal Ground Assembly for WPT3, critical especially for public infrastructures. The goal is that the WPT-GAs will be installed in publicly available parking spaces, per the setup in today’s plug-in charging infrastructure. —Jesse Schneider.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gases into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the help of partners at Oregon State University and the carbon-recycling experts at LanzaTech. Image: Oregon State University).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Image from Insuk Lee, Yonsei University. RiceNet builds upon 24 publicly available data sets derived from five different organisms including plants, animals, yeast, and humans, as well as an earlier mid-sized network of 100 rice stress response proteins constructed through protein interaction mapping. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy will award $15 million to the Arizona State University-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP 3 ) for its Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production opportunity. This is a critical step for DOE’s support of the growing algal biofuel industry.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter. But Yu and his colleagues at UT Austin developed theirs with arid atmospheres in mind.

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JULY 26, 2012

Through the joint Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) , USDA and the DOE are working to develop economically and environmentally sustainable sources of renewable biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products. University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million).

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin will analyze the environmental impacts of the process over its entire life span. In the project’s first stage, Ohio-based Echogen Power Systems will design a turbine that can handle “dirty” supercritical CO 2 laden with hydrocarbons and water accrued during its subsurface journey.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

The partnership is currently focusing on two separate initiatives: The University of Texas at Austin will host a first-of-its-kind integration of commercial hydrogen production, distribution, storage and use. —Samik Mukherjee, McDermott’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

The “Go” app captures the universe of transportation options available in a city and computes the quickest, cheapest and most sustainable way to reach a destination. The online survey was conducted among 18-65 year olds who hold a driver’s license. Xerox is showcasing its “Go” apps at ITS World Congress in Melbourne, Australia.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +. Braga began developing solid-glass electrolytes with colleagues while she was at the University of Porto in Portugal.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. ” Goodenough invented lithium cobalt oxide cathode materials while at Oxford University. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Leveraging aggregated INRIX trip data from millions of connected cars, parking availability and restrictions, and US Census demographic data, INRIX created a scalable and customizable scoring system to analyze and visualize priority corridors for HAV deployment. Heat maps for City of Austin (left) and Downtown Austin (right).

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JUNE 2, 2010

ChargePoint America will provide 4,600 Level II (220 – 240 volts) public and private ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations by October 2011 to program participants in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Orlando, Fla.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington DC.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. A longtime user of NERSC supercomputers, Louie has a dual appointment as Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX. Gravis Robotics ] Universal Robots introduced the UR30 at IREX, which can lift 30kg- not the 63.5kg that it says on the tire, that’s the weight of the UR30 itself. Available for preorder now. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. In partnership with a consortium of local research institutions, this project deploy smart grid systems at partners’ university campus properties and technology transfer laboratories. DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). 10,792,045.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a database that includes visibility measurements taken from 1973 - 2007 at 3,250 meteorological stations all over the world and released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). University of Maryland Visibility Database.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts—low-cost, layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX 2 ) based on molybdenum and tungsten—to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost. —co-author Jun Lou.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will result in expanded availability of alternative fuels with 17 new CNG and E85 fueling stations and 63 electric vehicle charging stations. Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. Total DOE award: $14,999,658.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In a study funded by GM, the NSF, and the US Department of Homeland Security, a team at NYU and George Mason University have reported vulnerabilities in MirrorLink that could allow a hacker access to a vehicle through a smartphone, even if MirrorLink is disabled.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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JUNE 27, 2006

Fleet Orders · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources – 1,800 · City of Chicago - 850 vehicles · Shohomish County, WA - 300 · City of Seattle - 410 · Kansas City, MO - 120 · Capital Metro (Transit agency in Austin) - 165 · ABC Lawn and Pest Control (Austin) - 150 Cities Cities continue to join the Plug-In Partners coalition.

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MAY 18, 2016

This approach is very effective when large amounts of high-quality examples are available. Machine learning emerged as a critical method to overcome this problem because it allowed machines to be trained with examples rather than through explicit programming.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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