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Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2021
In April, the BMW Group, WWF and other companies—including the Volvo Group—undertook, as a precautionary measure, not to use deep-ocean minerals or finance deep-sea mining until comprehensive scientific research into the impact of deep-sea mining can be conducted and the consequences for the environment are clearly assessed.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 15, 2021
Now, MIT engineers are proposing using an ammonia-based selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that could result in an approximately 95% reduction in NO x emissions in exchange for a ~0.5% Current airplane design uses engines anchored beneath each wing. increase in block fuel burn. —Prashanth et al. Speth, Sebastian D.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2022
A team from MIT has developed a new approach to fabricating oxide-based solid-state electrolytes that are comparable in thickness to the polymer separators found in current Li-ion batteries without sintering: sequential decomposition synthesis (SDS). Rupp (2022) “A Sinter-Free Future for Solid-State Battery Designs” Energy Environ.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 24, 2021
Now, MIT researchers have carried out an exhaustive analysis of the studies that have looked at the decline in the prices these batteries. Trancik (2021) “Re-examining rates of lithium-ion battery technology improvement and cost decline” Energy Environ. —Ziegler and Trancik. The work was supported by the Alfred P.
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2010
An MIT-led team has designed an airplane that is estimated to use 70% less fuel than current planes while also reducing noise and emission of NO x. The design was one of two that the team, led by faculty from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, presented to NASA last month as part of a $2.1 Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 16, 2021
To accomplish tasks, they need both a well-designed body and a “brain,” or controller. But there are few ways to optimize a robot’s design at the same time. Unless the designer is an algorithm. The results are robots that are patchworks of colored squares, moving through video game-like environments.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Researchers at MIT have determined that growth in aviation causes twice as much damage to air quality as to the climate. —lead researcher Dr Sebastian Eastham, from the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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