Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My wife, Zan, and I were recently on the Big Island, Hawaii, and while there we toured the state’s only geothermal plant. Hawaii's 30 megawatt geothermal control room. An injection well pumps water into this hot layer where it is turned to steam. The rest of Hawaii’s electricity is generated by burning oil.

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JULY 10, 2015

and others, will receive up to $9 million to enhance overall algal biofuels sustainability by maximizing carbon dioxide, nutrient, and water recovery and recycling, as well as bio-power co-generation. Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), Duke University. Duke University will receive up to $5.2

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AUGUST 9, 2015

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade (C 6 –C 18 ) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species. Total mass recovery was 94 wt%.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has designated Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, a national center for ocean energy research and development. As a public institution of higher education, Florida Atlantic University will also promote public awareness of ocean energy research and development.

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DECEMBER 26, 2010

Very little is known about how ocean acidification may affect critical microbial groups like the ammonia oxidizers, “ key players in the ocean’s nitrogen cycle ,” says Michael Beman of the University of Hawaii and lead author of the PNAS paper. From the seas, nitrous oxide then enters the atmosphere, says Beman.

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APRIL 15, 2014

Adrian Narvaez of Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers (HHC) observes a metal hydride storage tank, part of a project led by Sandia National Laboratories. —Adrian Narvaez, Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers (HHC). Photo by Dino Vournas) Click to enlarge. Instead, companies can simply purchase and store hydrogen tanks as needed.

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MARCH 8, 2010

More than 80% of the announced DOE funding has been allocated to projects aimed at increased durability and cost reduction, with the remaining funds focused on water management modeling. Rod Borup, Fuel Cell Program Manager, Institute for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Lead Institution: Texas A&M University at College Station. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Investigator: Edward J. Buskey, Ph.D.

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JULY 26, 2012

University of Wisconsin ($7 million). University of Hawaii ($6 million). This project will optimize the production of grasses in Hawaii, including napier grass, energy cane, sugarcane and sweet sorghum. Michigan Technological University. Michigan State University. Oregon State University. Description.

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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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MARCH 24, 2010

Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

Examining 311P/PANSTARRS with the spacecraft's suite of imaging, multispectral and spectrometer cameras and other instruments could provide vital information about the origin of the water on Earth and the theory that much of it was delivered by comet impacts. Notably both Kamo?oalewa

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APRIL 20, 2024

Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D. But the two of them kept at it. “We

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The 27 projects range from concept studies and component design research to prototype development and in-water device testing. The Regents of the University of California (Davis, California) will seek to develop an innovative, reliable, and cost-effective Bidirectional Rotor Tidal Turbine for tidal MHK applications.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

” In all five cases, water and nutrients (N and P) are supplied by municipal wastewater, which also provides some of the carbon needed for algae growth. wide channels) and mixed with paddle wheels at a nominal water velocity of 25 cm/sec; Hydraulic residence time in the ponds is 3 to 5 days, depending on season; and.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. Date of birth Oct. MS, 1959, Ph.D.,

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Walking into Jun Ye ’s lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is a bit like walking into an electronic jungle. This is one of the world’s most precise and accurate clocks, and it’s so accurate that you’d have to wait 40 billion years—or three times the age of the universe—for it to be off by one second.

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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. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), which stretches between Mexico and Hawaii, are estimated to contain more cobalt and nickel than there are in deposits on land. Craig Smith , an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa , who has led seven research expeditions to the CCZ.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can even watch NBC-Universal TV and see how they turned their logo green and laugh at their funny PSAs about cutting your energy use or carbon footprint. government or the majority of our population about taking the immediate and dramatic steps necessary to avoid runaway climate change or the hell and high water that’s coming with it. .

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JUNE 4, 2024

The goal is to ensure that tourism functions smoothly for visitors and locals alike, said Megan Epler Wood, managing director of the Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program at Cornell University. The possibility of a new tourist fee has also drawn local opposition in Hawaii, where Gov. Beginning Aug.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can even watch NBC-Universal TV and see how they turned their logo green and laugh at their funny PSAs about cutting your energy use or carbon footprint. government or the majority of our population about taking the immediate and dramatic steps necessary to avoid runaway climate change or the hell and high water that’s coming with it. .

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model.

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