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Swiss team demos light-driven electron accumulation in artificial molecules; step towards artificial photosynthesis

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Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have reproduced one of the crucial phases of natural photosynthesis using artificial molecules. Large amounts of energy had to be used for these, which made a sustainable conversion of sunlight into chemically stored energy impossible. Oliver Wenger (University of Basel) and Prof.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. In larger refineries light olefins—ethylene, propylene and butenes—are separated from this fraction.

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Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

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The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. It is expected to produce more energy than it consumes, using less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling, and lighting.

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Cummins progressing with lightweight downsized T2B2 diesel for pickup; 40% improvement in fuel economy over gasoline V8

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So far, Ruth noted, the new engine has achieved target engine-out emissions (EOE), performance and fuel economy; aftertreatment catalyst performance has met or exceeded the targeted conversion rates, enabling an increased allowance on engine out HC. Earlier post.). liter) and its emission control system (ECS) without a weight penalty.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

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The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required. Flanked by on-stage demos, Gelsinger announced the coming of “AI PCs” built to accelerate all their increasing range of AI tasks based only on the hardware beneath the user’s fingertips.

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TU Bergakademie Freiberg launches OTTO-R project with VW Group, Shell, OMV as partners; P2X for green gasoline

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Residual methanol and light hydrocarbons are separated downstream and recycled into the process. The Freiberg researchers will pilot test and demo a new Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process developed in South Africa for the production of kerosene. The topic “Power-to-X” addresses the storage of surplus renewable electricity.

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US DOE awards more than $175M to 40 projects for advanced vehicle research and development

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This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. The Pennsylvania State University.