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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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It’s pretty nasty,” says Michael Bender, the international coordinator of the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG). Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. Today, the only remaining permitted uses for mercury are in fluorescent lighting and dental amalgams, and even those are being phased out.

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LCA study finds connected and automated vehicle subsystems could enable net reduction in vehicle energy use and GHGs by up to 9%

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Integrating these results with EIA reference case projections for the transportation sector produces light duty vehicle energy consumption estimates between 7,000 and 18,000 trillion Btu in 2050 compared to 16,000 trillion Btu in 2016. The existing literature on CAV energy implications … focuses primarily on the operational impact.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. SRI International.

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Neuroscientist or cinematographer Programs he helped develop include the Structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index, the MOtion-tuned Video Integrity Evaluation ( MOVIE ) index, visual information fidelity algorithms, and the Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion ( VMAF ) metric. 264 video coding reference software standard.

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DOE seeking comment on draft $50M solicitation for new projects over 11 areas of interest to improve vehicle performance and decrease fuel consumption

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The objective of this AOI is to develop and demonstrate the capability of multi-material joining techniques for aluminum to advanced steel for light-duty vehicle body-in-white (BIW) joints. AOI 3: Body-in-white Joining of Aluminum to Advanced High Strength Steel at Prototype Scale. mm and 5 mm thick. mm and 5 mm.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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As the recently retired head of space power systems at ESA—with more than 30 years of experience working on power generation, energy storage, and electrical systems design for dozens of missions, including evaluation of a power-beaming experiment proposed for the International Space Station—I think the answer is almost certainly no.

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