Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2020

Conventionally, water is considered a cheap and clean source of electrons; 2H 2 O ? Briefly, PMA can be readily reduced at room temperature upon oxidation of abundant biomass wastes, such as lignin and chopped particles of giant miscanthus, acacia, rice straw and larch.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

Published in an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , their findings point to a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and renewable catalyst for processing that uses common bacteria and the metal palladium, which can be recovered from waste sources such as discarded electronics, catalytic converters, street sweeper dust and processed sewage.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. One problem with mass-producing sensors, however, is that it creates a lot of waste. That's why Whiting and his colleagues decided on using biodegradable materials, ­­such as zinc and wood.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

A closed thermal integration enables reuse of fuel cell waste heat for fuel evaporation thereby increasing efficiency. In the combination with HT PEM the waste heat is of sufficient temperature to drive this process, meaning an energy-free process which leads to a superior overall efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers from A*STAR in Singapore have developed a fungal culture for use in a cheap and efficient method to transform waste oil palm material into biofuels and environmentally friendly plastics. The palm oil waste contains cellulose and hemicellulose that can be broken down into sugars for use in fuel and plastic production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The levulinic acid feedstock for the new process can be produced by chemical processing of materials such as straw, corn stalks or even municipal green waste. It’s a cheap and practical starting point that can be produced from raw biomass with high yield, Mascal said.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

In particular, one of the projects will explore the idea of using cheap and widely available magnesium oxide-based mineral silicates to trap carbon dioxide from industry flue gases via a process known as dry mineral carbonation. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock. Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions. —Xu et al. doi: 10.1039/D2GC01992B.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

a Texas-based materials science company that is focused on extracting critical metals from electronic waste, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) process for recovering cobalt and other metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. We completely recycle end-of-life products without generating hazardous waste.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

Natural gas generation made up much of the gap last year, as it has consistently in recent years, due to extremely cheap gas prices. and emissions from other sectors (agriculture, waste, land use, oil and gas methane, etc) rose by 4.4%. It also marks the end of a decade in which total US coal generation was cut in half. year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. Tuning the reaction conditions also permits the selective production of methyl cyclopentane, which can be used as high-octane-number gasoline additive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2018

heat pump; the system will allow to use waste heat from the fuel cell. Hydrogen is stored in composite tanks on the roof; the mass of the tanks will be reduced by about 20% compared to previous models. In order to optimally reduce energy use in the vehicle, it will feature a climate comfort system with a CO?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 billion, around 20% of the world’s population. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2010

Researchers at the Isfahan University of Technology (Iran), have demonstrated the use of a dilute acid hydrolysis process to convert rice straw—a cheap, abundant and mainly unused ag waste—to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and furfural. Both furans are components for production of different chemicals and fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2022

To address these problems in the previous works during the selective lithium recovery from the spent LFP batteries, it is significant to develop an oxidant that is cheap, green, and efficient as well to replace the existing oxidants.

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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

JUNE 23, 2009

It is crucial that the material that will serve as a hydrogen adsorbent in fuel cell vehicles is cheap and is environmentally benign. The goal of University of Delaware project is to develop new low cost hydrogen storage substrates from an abundant waste material (6 billion lbs/yr in US): chicken feathers.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

Hence, in order to reduce the cost of biodiesel production, using cheaper feedstocks such as waste oil or low-quality oil has been proposed. However, its use has been challenging as a result of impurities such as water and large amounts of free fatty acids (FFAs), which are common in most waste materials.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2011

The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says. The hydride beads would then pumped to a hot cell where waste heat from the engine exhaust is used to drive the hydrogen into a small buffer volume.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2012

In this manner, full performance and even ultra-performance renewable fuels can be synthesized from low-value and abundant waste materials. In addition, the use of “crude” turpentine was investigated to evaluate the ability of these catalysts to produce terpene dimers in high yield while using cheap, unpurified feedstocks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2012

By simply grinding together two cheap precursors in a basic milling machine, the MOF material is produced in a matter of minutes, in a powder form, ready for applications without further treatment, and without generating solvent waste. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The discovery also improves on current recycling methods that result in cheap, low-quality plastic products. But there will always be instances where plastics are difficult to replace, so we really want to see what we can do to find value in the waste. Too, the catalytic method produced far less waste in the process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

And sorbents are not only expensive, but they generate a huge amount of physical waste—similar to the diaper landfill issue. The OHM (oleophobic hydrophobic magnetic) nanocomposite slurry can be used to coat any cheap, commercially available sponge. Skimmers don’t work in rough waters or with thin layers of oil.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2015

The results, the authors suggested in their paper, constitute a good starting point for efficient and cheap biodiesel production. The next step would be to adapt the methodology to readily available cheap waste oils.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Most of the methods currently under development involve converting biomass or waste, while there are also approaches to directly produce liquid transportation fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, typically using photosynthesis. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2021

KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. But doing so is wasteful, whereas the MHD potentially gives a smart new life to many old things.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

However, in liquid sulfides, some free electrons are allowed to pass through the solution without causing the desired chemical transformations on the electrodes; this allows their energy to be wasted as heat but doesn’t contribute to metal separation.

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MARCH 23, 2025

It can also lock its virtual differential and create a car that loves to drift one moment, while the next working in unison to ensure not a single kilowatt is wasted in the pursuit of a hot lap. The R5 is capable of unprecedented levels of torque vectoring from its two 200kW motors they have no mechanical connection with each other.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2014

This could bolster fabrication yields, save money and significantly decrease microelectronic waste. Although there has been significant work in high-performance materials, today’s engineered polymers still lack several fundamental attributes.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Texas is top of The Metals Company's list for the processing plant given the state's ports and access to cheap renewables. "We We are committed to turning those rocks into metal using renewable power and with zero solid waste," Shesky says.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 27, 2008

Like hydrogen the air is not actually the source of energy, it is the storage medium, but unlike hydrogen the production of an air powered car is surprisingly cheap. Again compared to battery electrics the storage medium (tank) is not limited by a shelf life or number of cycles and therefore reduces waste.

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MAY 10, 2022

We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Among them: Our society generates massive amounts of waste that is going to remain in landfills for a long time. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

Waste heat is transferred within the sphere to create steam in a closed process that then drives the second cycle and set of pistons (built around the first set), using a similar sinus disc. Add in a few kWh of lead-acid batteries and you have a cheap and efficient advanced powertrain. ”.

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