Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The 1,000 wind turbines that the spheres could anchor could, on average, replace a conventional on-shore coal or nuclear plant. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The project was supported by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run. —Richard Lester.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. per gallon. Water will be the primary byproduct. Harvard, Univ.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

million grant to support the project’s development. PERC estimates that operating costs of a propane fleet typically range from 5 to 30% less than a gasoline-powered fleet, when capital costs (vehicle and infrastructure) and operation and maintenance costs are all taken into consideration. Renewable propane.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

government was going to try a whole bunch of different government interventions—incentive programs, tax credits, grants, infrastructure investments—to bend the trajectory of our energy transition. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., There’s just so much that is contingent and unknowable. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). Its been improving over time, but the power density and cost issues are still steep for what exists thus far.

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