Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2018

Researchers at Georgia Tech, with colleagues in China and Saudi Arabia, have developed a rationally designed, multi-phase catalyst that significantly enhances the kinetics of oxygen reduction of the state-of-the-art solid oxide fuel cell cathode. An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Joule.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Algenol and Georgia Tech calculated the life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions for three different system scenarios for this proposed ethanol production process, using process simulations and thermodynamic calculations. MJ/MJEtOH, and the net life cycle greenhouse gas emissions range from 29.8 wt % to 5 wt %.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Earlier post.) Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. BREAKERS projects will develop DC devices that prevent electric arcing, a safety hazard, while handling large amounts of power and voltage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. The grants will go to projects in 17 states.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The pump was developed by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with collaborators from Purdue University and Stanford University. Even in cases where high-temperature fluids are used, such as gas turbines and rocket engines, the pumps and compressors are not operated at high temperatures. —Amy et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. These systems have applicability in high-efficiency fossil energy, concentrating solar power, and small modular nuclear energy.

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Cars That Think

JULY 7, 2024

When the electricity grid was established, it was the Wild West, with every entrepreneur trying to get ahead of the others with their own proprietary solutions. So, electricity providers were forced to make everything work seamlessly—challenging in a world before microprocessors and power electronics.

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Baua Electric

JULY 19, 2024

Photo by Amol Mande on Pexels.com Solar and wind now make up more than 20% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The renewable energy mix – biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind – is now nearly 30% of total US electrical generating capacity.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

of US electrical generation in 2023, according to newly released end-of-year US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data. EIA’s latest “ Electric Power Monthly ” (with data through December 31, 2023) reports that the combination of utility-scale and small-scale (e.g., rooftop) solar increased by 16.1% compared to 2022.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

New factories producing EVs and their batteries are bringing more jobs to the Southeast, but utilities are trying to meet the power demands of these factories with natural-gas power plants rather than renewable energy, reports Energy News Network. for the past decade and a half.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 22, 2024

share of total US utility-scale electrical generating capacity, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data. Solar also provided nearly 100% of all new generating capacity in August, according to the SUN DAY Campaign, who reviewed the FERC data. Natural gas provided the balance (3 MW). Solar was 99.6%

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 21, 2024

Photo: Openverse Renewables – solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower – are now 30% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to analysis of FERC’s mid-year data. That puts solar on track to become the US’s second-largest source of capacity – behind only natural gas – within three years.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Photo courtesy of Tom Brewster/BLM California US renewables’ electrical generating capacity could be close to – and may even surpass – natural gas within three years, according to FERC data. In March alone, solar accounted for 99.7% In March alone, solar accounted for 99.7% Wind is currently at 11.77%.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. Palo Alto’s government has set a very aggressive Sustainability and Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below the 1990 level by the year 2030.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Oshkosh USPS electric mail carrier (Source: Oshkosh) USPS is finally rolling out its much-anticipated Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDVs), and the first fleet of them to go into service in Atlanta, Georgia is earning rave reviews from delivery drivers according to an AP report. Get started here. –

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Baua Electric

JULY 1, 2024

It has two battery-making factories in Georgia, and it’s building four more battery factories jointly with automakers. Scope 3 emissions often represent the largest share of oil and gas companies’ total carbon footprint. If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It basically simulates the feeling of driving a manual gas car, rather than an EV – so in exchange for making your car objectively slower, you can get some silly noises and have a more complicated driving experience. Kia also announced today that the EV6 will be assembled in Georgia – but that GT models would be assembled in Korea.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Better yet, the model will now be produced in Kia’s plant in Georgia, offering easier access to US tax credits. This basically simulates the feeling of driving a manual gas car, rather than an EV – so in exchange for making your car objectively slower, you can get some silly noises and have a more complicated driving experience.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

I've been documenting electric cars in junkyards for about a decade. Then some of the early golf-cart-esque electric LSVs that sold in California during the mid-to-late 2000s began showing up in the Pick-n-Pulls of the Golden State. I spotted a pair of France-built ZENN Electrics in 2017. Nissan Leaf in California wrecking yard.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Similar tactics that leveraged physical and mobile autonomous things could extend the blast radius beyond IT infrastructure to destroy physical infrastructure like factories, pipelines, electric grids, or worse. Autonomous systems are already demonstrating tremendous value today, and we are just scratching the surface.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Selected Labs and Partners.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jesse Jenkins and his collaborators used the REPEAT energy model to project the greenhouse-gas reductions resulting from recent U.S. How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar? Energy Information Administration (EIA) and IEA vastly under project ed wind and solar deployments.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array.

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Plug in America

JULY 22, 2024

history, offering tax credits on energy-efficient electric heat pumps, home energy efficiency improvements, rooftop solar or battery storage, and–our personal favorite–clean vehicle tax credits for both new and used EVs. The IRA is also the largest-ever climate investment in U.S. The impact of the IRA is huge. 148/S.J.Res.87)

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In addition, renewables i.e., solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower provided almost 25% of the USs electrical generation during the first 10 months of 2024. Natural gas provided the balance a mere 3 MW. During the first 10 months of 2024, solar and wind added 21,425 MW and 2,799 MW, respectively.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Photo: EDF Renewables North America Renewable energy solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, biomass accounted for more than 90% of total US electrical generating capacity added in 2024, according to data released yesterday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and reviewed by the SUN DAY campaign. Solar was 80.1%

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

energy dominance,” mainly by boosting domestic oil and gas production, and deregulating those sectors. His first administration provided billions in loan guarantees for the construction of the newest Vogtle reactors in Georgia. Trump has also announced plans to end the US $7,500 tax credit for purchasing an electric vehicle.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Yet he has a fan base inside the world of electric cars. He’s been critical of legacy automakers pivoting to EVs—including sharp criticism of GM’s plan to go all-electric , with claims that going all-EV is “not going to work.” should design federal policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.”

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