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The Ford Motor Company Fund and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on the US’ first conversion of a traditional school bus to a hydraulic hybrid vehicle that runs on recycled biofuel. Atlanta Public Schools (APS) donated the bus for the project.
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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. A paper on their work is published in the journal Nature Materials.
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Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode. An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Joule. —Chen et al.
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Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S. The demand for clean and sustainable energy has stimulated great interest in fuel cells, which allows direct conversion of chemical fuels to electricity. Peak power densities of cells with LnBa 0.5 GDC (Ln = Pr and Nd) cathode. Credit: Choi et al.
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Energy density of petroleum-based fuels and advanced biofuels. However, the development of microbial platforms for the production of high-energy density fuels—i.e., Attaining the volumetric energy content necessary for tactical fuels requires mimicking the strained ring systems found in JP-10 and RJ-5. Click to enlarge.
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