Cars That Think

MAY 10, 2022

Among them: Our society generates massive amounts of waste that is going to remain in landfills for a long time. What’s more, the process of making these goods is also bad for the environment, considering raw materials, refining, supply chain, packaging, and so on. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

Through work on transgenic plants and wild plants that naturally have fewer undesirable constituents, biologists, engineers and chemists have recently improved the biorefinery field’s understanding of the chemistry and structure of lignin, which provides a better idea of the theoretical chemistry that lignin can do, Ragauskas said.

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 18, 2023

The math that explains why a donut is really the same shape as coffee mug but not a waste bin could be the key to making quantum computers practicable. We used the entanglement of qubits to create an environment where you can then make these anyons,” says Tony Uttley , Quantinuum’s president and COO.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). So of course then we had to call EOD [personnel] out and waste their time and ours all because of this stupid little robot.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

A team of University of Michigan researchers has been awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to identify and to test naturally diverse groups of green algae that can be grown together to create a high-yield, environmentally sustainable and cost-effective system to produce next-generation biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Technologies to address barriers to the use of municipal solid waste and sewage sludge as feedstocks for alternative fuels. Municipal solid waste and sewage are waste products that are produced at massive scale.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Among the awards is support for a Syracuse University (with BorgWarner of Ithaca) project to prepare, inject and combust supercritical (SC) diesel fuel. Stony Brook University seeks to improve vehicle fuel economy with a thermoelectric generator that would capture energy previously lost through heat exhaust. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

By staying focused on new ideas that no other company was working on, Jobs was able to create a vision, develop novel products within that vision, and then do it again and again. Apple built systems encompassing hardware and software, closely aligning the device and its operating environment to optimize system performance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2015

Friction and wear dissipate mechanical energy in moving mechanical assemblies, leading to unwanted material loss and wasted energy. The experimentalists were also puzzled to find that humid environments were causing the friction coefficient to shoot up to levels that were nearly 100 times greater than measured in dry environments.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The more we understand about why a molecule is toxic, and methods that will make these organisms more tolerant, the more people will get ideas about how to attack other, more severe problems of toxicity. In order to use residual waste of this kind, the substance lignocellulose must be broken down, which is difficult. 1257859.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2022

Kai-Fu Lee , an AI expert who leads the venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures , and Chen Qiufan , a science fiction author known for his novel Waste Tide. Universal basic income. There are some interesting experiments going on with universal basic income (UBI), like Sam Altman’s ambitious idea for WorldCoin.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2024

I mean, as a citizen of Earth, I think it’s a great idea, but we often hear about bottom-line issues and so on. And that, of course, is not very good for the environment because it’s not very energy or material efficient to manufacture in a way that a lot of material is wasted and processed several times.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2022

The project began in 1991, when I pitched the effort as part of my doctoral research at Stanford University. Back then, I was a graduate student at Stanford University and a part-time researcher at. To test the idea, I wasn't going to have users perform surgery or repair satellites. But they hinted at interesting possibilities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

A new cost-benefit analysis of biofuels policies by economists Harry de Gorter and David Just at Cornell University has concluded that government mandates for biofuels “ are clearly superior to all other policies, with few tradeoffs arising. biofuel policies that attempt to curb CO 2 without directly cutting energy use are clearly wasteful.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

New ideas create huge opportunities, and the Dearman Hubbard partnership is a chance to create a cost-effective, cleaner and more sustainable environment. —Professor Toby Peters, Chair in Power and Cold Economy, University of Birmingham and CEO of Dearman. —Pat Maughan, Managing Director of Hubbard Products.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Because it is very difficult to remove lignin using existing enzymes, this process requires preprocessing with sulfuric acid at high temperatures, which in turn requires preprocessing and treatment of waste liquids and the consumption of large amounts of energy, Moriya says. Makoto Watanabe at Tsukuba University.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

If you live in the city of Exxon/Mobil – I mean, Torrance, it will seem like an alternative universe full of knowledgeable, hard-working, committed, productive people in stark contrast to their mirror opposites on the Torrance Environmental Commission. The biggest attribute of this glorious South Bay is our environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2012

During his keynote address at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, he outlined a plan for connected cars to help avoid a potential future of what he called “ global gridlock—a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources.” ( Earlier post.) Like some other OEMs (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

But yeah, just curious about your ideas about what would work in this way. I think Europe might need to look into as much as possible a degree of fostering an environment that will allow for that same level of innovation. Wald: Yeah. I’m really glad you asked this question.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

When the final funding opportunity announcement is released following this public comment period, DOE will accept applications from industry, national laboratories, and university-led teams to address these challenges and enable technologies that drive innovation in vehicle design. Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions. CONCLUSION.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. 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. ’s power generation, he said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Support for this use of allowance value stems from the idea that the climate-regulating services of the atmosphere are a common property resource. Representatives Henry A.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The idea is that when your car needs more energy, you can drive your car into a station and, like an automated car wash, your depleted battery is replaced robotically by one that has a full charge. Maybe you should ask some engineers at the local power utility before you go shooting your mouth off, decrying how the idea will never fly.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The PUMA looks like it might sell well in university and corporate campuses and those large empty subdivisions in SoCal and Vegas. No, if you look at the picture it actually has 6 wheels but drives on 2 to waste energy. by galeso April 10, 2009 9:38 AM PDT jsargent, thanks I would have missed the wasted energy argument.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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