Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture core/shell photoanode with a highly active oxygen evolution electrocatalyst shell (FeMnP) and semiconductor core (rutile TiO 2 ) for the photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (PEC-OER) for solar water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2018

A team from the University of Houston and Hunan Normal University in China has developed an active and durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst for water splitting that meets commercial crtieria for current densities at low overpotentials. to deliver 200 mA cm -2 , unsatisfactory for the commercial requirements of 1.8-2.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston. The project is using Half-Heusler (HH) thermoelectric materials ( earlier post ) in designing the vehicular TEG systems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

University of Maryland: College Park. Penn State University Park. University of Maryland: College Park. University of Pittsburgh. Cornell University. University of Maryland: College Park. Wayne State University. Oregon State University. SUNY University at Stony Brook. Description.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 8, 2024

No combustion=no engine noise Conversely, gas-powered cars generate noise through vibrations and other engine mechanisms when operating. A 2024 University of Houston study found EVs reduced mortality rates and improved air quality in New York and other large metro areas.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2023

This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. This panel, part of the Stanford HAI Spring Symposium on 24 May 2023, offered conversations between artists and technologists about intersections in their work. Moderated by Catie Cuan, Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Researchers at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity, MIT and Boston College have found that indium-doped tin telluride (SnTe) shows high thermoelectric performance, with a peak figure of merit (ZT) of ?1.1 atom % In-doped SnTe at about 873 K (600 ° C).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) in Des Plaines, IL, recently added a new Pilot-Scale IH 2 Plant to broaden biomass-to-liquid hydrocarbon fuel conversion. GTI has licensed the IH2 technology to CRI Catalyst Company (CRI), an international company headquartered in Houston, TX, for worldwide deployment. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Our goal is to give people reliable tools to verify who they’re really talking to online, without disrupting normal conversations,” said Hegde. “As They’re particularly interested in developing “compound” challenges that combine multiple tasks simultaneously. As AI gets better at creating fakes, we need to get better at detecting them.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

million liters (76 million gallons) of nameplate biodiesel production capacity at plants located in Houston, Texas and two facilities in southern Ontario. BIOX believes the two fuels represent complementary compliance pathways for any obligated parties and broadens the sales and marketing offerings. BIOX owns and operates 287.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 It can be used with waste-heat applications and concentrated solar energy conversion at temperatures up to 300 ?C, 1424388112.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2015

Results of a 14-week study by Rice University researchers suggest that algae monocultures for biofuel feedstock can be grown in open tank bioreactors using municipal wastewater as a nutrient source. More than 80% of lipids were converted to FAME indicating potentially high production for conversion to biodiesel (up to 0.9

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected six cost-shared University Advanced Combustion and Emissions Controls research and development projects totaling up to $13 million in DOE funding, subject to annual appropriations. The following projects were selected for award negotiation and will be cost shared at a minimum of 20%.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2021

MIT ] Using a mix of 3D-printed plastic and metal parts, a full-scale replica of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, was built inside a clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The activity served as a dress rehearsal for the flight version, which is scheduled for assembly in the summer of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Development of a Dedicated, High-Value Biofuels Crop The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will develop an.

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Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2023

KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Please send us your events for inclusion. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB! Botston Dynamics ] SkyMul uses robots for rebar tying, which is an important job in construction that is deeply unpleasant (and sometimes damaging) for humans to do. Stanford HAI ]

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

Woody biomass gave up to 36% carbon conversion to pure hydrocarbons at optimum conditions. Among their findings were that for pine, the average carbon conversion to liquid-range hydrocarbons was 36% with a catalyst-to-biomass ratio of 10:1 at 600°C. This conversion presents more than 50% of the theoretical yield.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and. Houston-Galveston. will work to expand access to natural gas, propane and biodiesel transportation fuels across the eight-county Houston-Galveston area. alternative fuel vehicle conversions, equipment safety, and fueling. University, North.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Participants in the project include Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Michigan Technological University. CRI/Criterion Inc., Integrated Hydropyrolysis and. Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) Process for Direct. Production of Gasoline and Diesel Fuel. from Biomass (BIOMASS 2010).

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Green Cars News

MAY 4, 2009

The US Department of Energy will grant up to $13million in funding to six cost-shared University Advanced Combustion and Emissions Controls research and development projects. University of Michigan : Selected for negotiation of an award for a project, which will explore new high pressure lean burn combustion.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Fleets include transportation authorities, cities, school districts, the University of Michigan, FedEx, and Meijer. The fleets include two utility fleets, five cities and towns, three counties, ten private companies, two state fleets, ten school districts, and two universities. Total DOE award: $14,970,144.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Utility Global (Houston, Texas). Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc. Clermont, Kentucky).

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Teslarati

JUNE 20, 2021

Just days after the initial crash, Palmer Buck, fire chief for The Woodlands Township Fire Department, told the Houston Chronicle that contrary to some reports in the media, the ill-fated Model S was not ablaze for four hours. This does not mean to say the narrative surrounding the fatal Model S crash in Texas was ironclad, however.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). York University , Prius, Hymotion, November 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. EFICIENCY OF ENERGY CONVERSION There is a law in science (more specifically, thermodynamics) that. Posts | Profile Kate Galbraith Reporter Ms.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Then they are driving by electric car conversions every day and not seeing them. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. — Electric Cars Are For Girls 22. Posts | Profile Kate Galbraith Reporter Ms.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. Lead batts are around 98% recycled. In EV’s they do need replacing in about 5 yrs if done right.

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