Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

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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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment with dimensions of just nanometers (billionths of a meter), they have already come up with concepts for scaling up the method and making it practical for real-world applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

In contrast, the principal metals in the new compound developed by the Brookhaven team are both abundant and cheap: $20 per kilogram for nickel and $32 per kilogram for molybdenum. In this new catalyst, nickel takes the reactive place of platinum, but it lacks a comparable electron density. —Wei-Fu Chen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. volts to –0.5?volts

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

Such a system would create a minimal impact on the environment, and would likely be cheap, they figured. This research was funded by the ARPA-E Open-FOA program (DE-AR0000337), the University of Southern California, and the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. Bo Yang, Lena Hoober-Burkhardt, Fang Wanga, G. Surya Prakash and S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. The Natural Environment Research Council, UK also supported this research. —B.K.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2014

As one example, the California PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation TecHnology) Program at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1990s developed one such system using magnetic markers embedded under the roadway for lateral guidance. The next step is to conduct tests in real-life traffic. —Jonas Ekmark. Bento, L.C.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker. —Oleg Sheshukov, lead author. Background.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. Most research to date however is focusing on the sequestration of CO 2 in underground reservoirs. Robert Dorner.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

While cellulosic biomass like corn stover and switchgrass is abundant and cheap, it is much more difficult to utilize than corn and sugar cane. The centers are led by ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partnership with Michigan State University. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02454-10.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. For that reason, two-phase reaction media seem to be the most suitable environment for these particular enzymes. Under the mild conditions used, chemical catalysts were inefficient.

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JULY 8, 2016

A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press. Finally, in many MENA countries, government policies that made available low-priced fuel and electricity contributed to an ‘entitlement mentality’ among citizens toward cheap energy. and the U.S.: —Jim Krane.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

—Haotian Wang, a Rowland Fellow at Harvard University and the corresponding author. To apply this technology to real applications in the future, we are currently aimed at producing this single atom catalyst in a cheap and large-scale way, while improving its performance and maintaining its efficiency. —Haotian Wang.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn published a paper in The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion of the Solar System.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University. Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

Researchers at SLAC and their colleagues at Northwestern University and NIST have combined machine learning (ML) and high-throughput (HiTp) experiments to find a new system of metallic glasses in the Co-V-Zr ternary. In the metallic glass study, the research team investigated thousands of alloys that each contain three cheap, nontoxic metals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Iftach Yacoby of Tel Aviv University. To address the first challenge, the hypothesis is that the enzyme can be protected by local micro-oxic environments created by nearby O 2 uptake mechanisms. Both agencies must agree to fund the project in order to obtain the BSF funding. glucose oxidase, flavodiiron protein).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Walking into Jun Ye ’s lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is a bit like walking into an electronic jungle. This is one of the world’s most precise and accurate clocks, and it’s so accurate that you’d have to wait 40 billion years—or three times the age of the universe—for it to be off by one second.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 17, 2023

Tesla’s investor day on 1 March began with a rambling, detailed discourse on energy and the environment before transitioning into a series of mostly predictable announcements and boasts. Ferrite magnets, based on a form of iron oxide, are cheap and account for nearly 30 percent of the permanent-magnet market by sales.

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Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2022

We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. What’s more, the process of making these goods is also bad for the environment, considering raw materials, refining, supply chain, packaging, and so on. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects. Katherine W. Song et al.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2022

Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. However, whereas quantum computers strive to overcome this weakness , quantum sensors capitalize on this vulnerability to achieve extraordinary sensitivity to the slightest disturbances to the environment.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Apptronik , a Texas-based robotics company with its roots in the Human Centered Robotics Lab at University of Texas at Austin, has spent the last few years working towards a practical, general purpose humanoid robot. All of this has influenced the ability to design these types of legged systems for unstructured environments.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

They all follow a universal template that Qoori developed to optimize the construction of the company’s ever-larger centers. Fly ash—a messy, toxic by-product of coal-fired power plants—is cheap and still widely available, even as coal power dwindles in many regions. million square feet) of floor space.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 14, 2022

—Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem? For example, a number of scientists are surveying levels of RF fields in the environment, to address the public's health concerns. Foster: Measuring RF fields in free space is not a problem. The list goes on.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

SOURCE: GARTNER Fortunately, we have access to an information storage technology that is cheap, readily available, and stable at room temperature for millennia: DNA , the material of genes. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In a few years your hard drive may be full of such squishy stuff.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. As utilities shifted to more reliable alternating-current systems, they phased out these costly backup batteries. Electric Car tzero 0-60 3.6

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APRIL 7, 2022

The project began in 1991, when I pitched the effort as part of my doctoral research at Stanford University. Back then, I was a graduate student at Stanford University and a part-time researcher at. Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Kerry Tan, a professor at Loyola University Maryland who has studied airline fares, said that when Spirit offered service on a particular route, its competitors were forced to lower their prices. “In In my eyes, the worst-case scenario is that Spirit disappears and we’re left with a less competitive environment,” Dr. Tan said.

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Cars That Think

JULY 24, 2024

The introduction of local- and wide-area networks into the personal computer environment and the development of mail systems are leading toward some of the directions explored on the earlier systems. However, some of the experiences of those earlier pioneering systems should be considered anew in evolving newer collaborative environments.

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Green Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Do keep in mind Sena products are not cheap. There are front and rear cameras keeping track of your environment, and a light will blink in your peripheral vision when something dangerous approaches your blind spots. It does feature a universal intercom with up to 2 km of range and can connect with up to 8 riders. Interested?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And the stratosphere is relatively uniform environment compared to the lower atmosphere, so scientists have also been able to do what they think is more reliable modeling of what might happen. Absolutely, but it’s not necessarily cheap and easy to do in an absolute sense. So it’s been observed before. Wanser: Yes.

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Green Charging

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We do not want to waste money on cheap, low-quality commodities. The automobile industry is investing in protecting the environment. This type is widely becoming accepted as the universal charger type. Since we live in a world of scarce resources, it pays to be more economical. We want to save money.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Given Tesla’s degree of mechanical ability, we can expect these to be completely adequate, but nothing here is crazy small, cheap, efficient, powerful, or anything else. Most of those components ported quite easily over to the bot’s environment.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. 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.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The monocopter we're looking at here, called F-SAM, comes from the Singapore University of Technology & Design, and we've written about some of their flying robots in the past, including this transformable hovering rotorcraft. What is required to fly it outside of a motion capture environment? Can F-SAM fly outdoors?

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