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APRIL 23, 2014

Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. million grant to the Center for Transportation and the Environment to develop and deploy fuel cell hybrid electric walk-in delivery vans. million grant to the University of California, Davis, to establish a National Center for Sustainable Transportation.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, will this month launch a pre-production phase of Gordon, the first high-performance supercomputer to use large amounts of flash-based SSD (solid state drive) memory.

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APRIL 6, 2011

For the field test, researchers will deploy aged EV batteries at the University of California (UC), San Diego’s campus-wide electric power grid. The NREL award to the CCSE team leverages an ongoing UC Davis-CCSE-TSRC study funded by the California Energy Commission on the repurposing of used EV batteries for home energy storage.

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JULY 30, 2014

The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. atm and ambient environments containing oxygen and nitrogen were diluted with both carbon dioxide and helium. mm, ambient oxygen mole fractions between 0.1 ambient pressures between 0.7

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AUGUST 31, 2012

Methane hydrate can form in Arctic and marine environments. University of California at San Diego. University of Mississippi. University of New Hampshire. Oregon State University. Southern Methodist University. The University of Texas at Austin. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

Animated graphics help people visualize their city and their personal emissions to illustrate how their actions are affecting the environment in which they live. The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. —Professor Gurney.

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APRIL 11, 2023

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), San Diego State University researchers are developing advanced extraction methods with the aim of boosting the domestic supply of REEs.

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JULY 11, 2018

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

An additional 23 stations in areas such as Pasadena and Sacramento will connect these clusters into a regional network and include major destinations such as Napa, Santa Barbara and San Diego.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ORNL and its partners will develop an integrated simulation environment, the Fusion Energy Reactor Models Integrator (FERMI), to assess and accelerate the design cycle of integrated fusion-energy systems. University of California, San Diego. University of Houston. University of California, Los Angeles.

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JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. A faceted grain boundary in intergranularly-fractured sulfur-doped nickel. —Jian Luo.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Expanding established propulsion systems into a volume manufacturing environment. West Virginia University (NAFTC). Purdue University. Potential locations in IN : Anderson, Morristown, Greenfield, or Indianapolis Fargo, ND.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The technology has the potential to save energy and help the state achieve its bioenergy goals.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

For the current fiscal year, 2012-13, the program is slated to invest approximately $90 million to encourage the development and use of new technologies, and alternative and renewable fuels, with the goal of reducing dependence on foreign oil and improving the environment. Alternative Energy Systems Consulting, Inc.,

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APRIL 24, 2013

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. model home in San Marcos, Calif., American Honda Motor Co., and potentially in additional KB Home markets. ZeroHouse 2.0 ZeroHouse 2.0 The ZeroHouse 2.0

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JULY 15, 2010

BP and Verenium Corporation announced an agreement for BP Biofuels North America to acquire Verenium’s cellulosic biofuels business, including the facilities in Jennings, LA and San Diego, CA, for $98.3 The ability to transition out of the San Diego, CA facility over the next two years. million payment from BP; $10.8

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APRIL 4, 2012

The researchers acknowledge funding from private donors, the National Science Foundation, the Swedish International Development Agency, the United Nations Environment Programme, the Vetlesen Foundation and the Alderson Foundation. —Kar et al. Abhishek Kar, Ibrahim H. Rehman, Jennifer Burney, S.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy have developed a new method for predicting the financial impacts climate change will have on food production. The post How will climate change impact food production? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The LiGas electrolyte also provides expanded functions in extreme environments. Originally developed via research at University of California, San Diego by cofounders CEO Cyrus Rustomji, Ph.D., and Chief Technology Officer Jungwoo Lee, Ph.D.,

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Since its launch in 2011, CSRC launched and completed 44 research projects with 23 partner universities, publishing more than 200 papers and presenting at multiple industry conferences. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. University of Iowa – National Advanced Driving Simulator.

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MARCH 11, 2014

As one example, the California PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation TecHnology) Program at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1990s developed one such system using magnetic markers embedded under the roadway for lateral guidance. —Claes Tingvall, Traffic Safety Director at the Swedish Transport Administration.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Engineers at Stanford University and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a monocentric lens with multiple sensors using microlens arrays, allowing light field (LF) capture with an unprecedented field of view (FOV)—a camera that generates four-dimensional images and can capture 138 degrees of information.

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JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i has worked with universities, national laboratories, utilities and industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency. Together with the Federal Ministry of transport in Berlin, the project demonstrated that an energy positive home environment with a battery system is possible.

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MARCH 31, 2009

After graduating from San Diego State University in 1981, Scott began his career as the lead maintenance technician, in charge of the Natural Reserve System Research Facilities for the University of CA Riverside. In 1997, he started Carlson Solar in Hemet, while still working part time for the University.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

In addition, $150,000 is slated to supply and install four wireless-enabled Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations in San Diego; two at YMCA locations and two at apartment buildings. These four chargers will serve customers of Car2Go, an electric vehicle car-share program.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 6, 2023

These new robotic systems are designed to mimic the way biological organisms adapt their shape depending on their life cycle or environment and were developed by a team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Nature ] via [ Adaptive Robotics Lab ] Thanks, Jianguo! Pre-orders should open before the end of this year.

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JUNE 24, 2015

To field test its analysis findings, NREL and DOE supported establishing the world’s first fully integrated energy storage system consisting of multiple heterogeneous reused vehicle batteries on the campus of project partner University of California – San Diego (UCSD). —Mike Ferry, Center for Sustainable Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Iowa State University. Iowa State University will develop a new process to create glassy solid electrolytes (GSEs) that allow for long lifecycle batteries, an important goal for the energy storage community. Pennsylvania State University. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder.

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DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328.

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Cars That Think

JULY 8, 2024

Then, earlier this year, a team of researchers at Aston University in the Birmingham, England boasted what at the time was a record-setting 301 Tbps using much the same tech as the joint Japanese-British work—plus sharing a number of researchers between the two groups. So we’re already doing about four times better.”

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2023

Jens Schwamborn , a Professor of Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Luxembourg, is using organoids to study the development of neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. Networks make organoids a powerful model for understanding and potentially exploiting the dynamics of brain activity.

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APRIL 3, 2017

These particulates have serious health impacts if not controlled in the factory environment. Weld fumes have environmental impacts, too: venting weld fumes directly to the environment allows these toxic elements to make their way into air, water and soil. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Oil tankers can be filled with high-value biocrude at the harvesting sites in the open ocean, making the whole process carbon-neutral in the global environment.

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APRIL 19, 2024

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APRIL 27, 2015

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed catalytically active micromotors that significantly increase the release of hydrogen from liquid storage media. In a paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie , they introduce their new concept with a model vehicle powered by a hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.

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