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IPG to demo Flameless Ceramic Turbine for clean, off-grid power in EV charging

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IPG’s project will demonstrate the role of Flameless Ceramic Turbine technology in bringing EV charging to high-use and remote locations through clean, cheap, grid-independent power generation. IPG‘s flameless combustor uses the turbine exhaust and high heat transfer effectiveness through the IPG regenerator unit.

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Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

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With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. Vaggeeswar Rajaram/Northeastern University The idea to use infrared light stemmed from Rinaldi's previous project: detecting exhaust fumes from cars.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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Adamas: China rare earth consumption for catalytic converters down on weak passenger vehicle production

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million liters of vehicle exhaust gas catalyst in the first half of 2019—a decrease of 13% year-over-year on weak passenger vehicle production. Adamas Intelligence reports that according to the Association of China Rare Earth Industry (ACREI), China’s domestic manufacturers produced approximately 7.6

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2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Review – Cheap(ish) Speed

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You can also set up auxiliary gauges on the center screen or put the exhaust into quiet mode. Other options include an active exhaust, a decklid spoiler, and magnetic damping. It used to be about style for the base cars and cheap speed for the more-powerful ponies. Just press that “pony” button to get started. It’s not perfect.

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HeatReCar project demonstrates technical feasibility of thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery; economic case more difficult

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to US$2) per W e using cheap thermoelectric material and automating the thermoelectric module manufacturing process. Economic viability is more likely to be met in the future on gasoline cars (higher exhaust temperature in the city) with short time response thermoelectrics (fast light-up of the thermoelectric), the group concluded.

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Stuff We Use: Exhaust Repair Products

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Most of our readers and contributors alike have had at least one terrible hooptie in their fleet at some point in their vehicular career, meaning that carrying out a field expedient (or at least wallet friendly) exhaust repair is familiar to us all. Enter products like exhaust repair patches and putties.

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