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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Software by IHMC Robotics.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Many factors on both the supply and demand sides are influencing this trend, according to a new brief prepared by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This long-running trend has occurred at the same time as costs to produce and supply octane for gasoline have increased, EIA noted.

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MARCH 20, 2015

At its Annual Account Press Conference 2015, the BMW Group announced that, for the first time in the history of the Group, 51% of its electricity worldwide is being supplied from renewable sources. The BMW Group has a step-by-step plan to transition the company to 100% electrical energy supply from renewable sources.

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JANUARY 13, 2014

In December 2013, Cannon had said that KiOR would operate the Columbus plant “ on a limited campaign basis only ” to verify the impact of improvements. With the final 2013 overall volumes and standards requiring 16.55 Earlier post.) The ratio between gasoline, diesel and fuel oil is 41% gasoline, 37% diesel, and 22% fuel oil.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

The bus also features a system for supplying electric power to buildings and other facilities during emergencies, which was enhanced through rigorous verification testing beginning in November 2013. The fuel cell hybrid bus uses a NiMH battery. Maximum output/voltage is 9.8 kW/DC300 V. Fuel Cells Heavy-duty Hydrogen'

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AUGUST 18, 2013

A paper on their work is published in the journal Fuel ; the team had earlier presented their work at 2013 SPE Heavy Oil Conference in Calgary in June. Tao Jiang, Fanhua Zeng, Xinfeng Jia, Yongan Gu (2013) A new solvent-based enhanced heavy oil recovery method: Cyclic production with continuous solvent injection. 2013.07.043.

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MARCH 5, 2015

Lightning Hybrids, developer and manufacturer of hydraulic hybrid systems for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses ( earlier post ), announced an agreement with Kiessling Transit to supply 35 hydraulic hybrid systems. The sale marks Lightning Hybrids’ largest order to date. —Tim Reeser, president and co-founder, Lightning Hybrids.

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MARCH 10, 2009

YCEI will provide seed grants, support postgraduate studies, sponsor conferences and workshops, and foster interdisciplinary research in both science and public policy. An overview of this week’s findings will be presented to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties this December, also in Copenhagen.

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JUNE 11, 2009

The Nikkei reports that Mitsubishi will soon introduce five other electric models, and that by fiscal 2013, it intends to sell upwards of 30,000 electric vehicles and be profitable. By fiscal 2013, a plug-in hybrid sport utility vehicle. The company will also begin supply of an EV on an OEM basis to PSA Peugeot Citroën in fiscal 2010.

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MAY 2, 2014

In a presentation for the Copper International Conference in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013, Allanore noted the proof of concept for producing copper and sulfur by electrodecomposition of copper sulfide, achieved by T.P. —Antoine Allanore. The idea for direct sulfide electrolysis dates to as early as 1906. Hoar and R.G.

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JULY 17, 2014

A major new report published at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership’s Annual Conference shows the UK automotive sector has been revitalized by consistently applied policy centered on cutting carbon. Factory closures were commonplace, innovation was minimal, and the supply chain had become hollowed out. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 13, 2011

As it announced during its investor conference earlier this week, Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, has increased its 2013 earnings growth objectives to adjusted earnings per share of at least $6.00, or operating EBITDA of at least $1.7 Earlier post.).

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APRIL 19, 2013

The team presented a paper on their work at the 2013 SAE World Congress in Detroit. Ford engineers also presented two other papers evaluating the effects of low to mid-level ethanol blends in spark-ignited engines at the conference. Engines 6(1): 2013, doi: 10.4271/2013-01-1635 Jung, H., —Stein et al. Anderson, J.,

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In August 2013, Magnomatics joined The Proving Factory to meet the medium-volume requirements of automotive customers for its MAGSPLIT power split device. In 2012 Magnomatics secured £2.5 million (US$4.1 million) funding to develop magnetically geared motors and generators for the hybrid and electric vehicle market. million (US$1.7

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AUGUST 18, 2009

The Hydrotreated Renewable JP-5 fuel supplied under the DESC procurement is to consist predominately of n-paraffins, iso-paraffins and cycloparaffins and shall be produced solely from triglycerides and free fatty acids derived from either plant or algal oils. Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel Pre-Proposal Conference.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

At least two technological advances have helped lower fossil fuel prices and expanded reserves: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which has unlocked abundant natural gas supplies, and production from oilsands. It is important to note that this exercise is based on high levels of green- house gas emissions for many decades beyond 2100.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) will jointly carry out engineering, economic analysis and move into the development of renewable biojet fuel that will also look into ways for production and supply, with the support of Airbus. Qatar Airways will operate a fleet of 120 aircraft by 2013.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Russia supplied about 30 percent (146.6 mmbbl/day) in 2013. The decision also has impacted natural gas export prices negatively, since, for Russia's long-term supply agreements, they wholly or partially are indexed to oil prices. bcm) of Europe’s natural gas in 2014, and about 25 percent of its crude (3.5 Death by Energy.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

To reflect this market evolution, staff is proposing amendments that would better define the potential regulated parties for electricity and the order of priority in which that status would be conferred. These changes would apply to fuels supplied between 2013 and 2020. gCO 2 e/MJ to a higher value of 9.72 gCO 2 e/MJ and 94.71

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Dennis Whyte [left], the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ CEO, Bob Mumgaard, confer in CFS’s test hall, where the startup built and tested its first magnet. But in many ways, CFS’s Sparc stands on the shoulders of Iter.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

At a conference in Moscow on October 14, President Putin said that Russia had reached if not passed the peak of its economic crisis and predicted economic growth in coming years. Should crude prices decline from current levels, or even just stagnate, it is possible neither country will exit the CrudeDome under its own power.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

eV2g came online early in 2013 with the first revenue-generating vehicle-to-grid project, demonstrating the controls, regulatory requirements, and market participation rules for selling energy storage from vehicles into the PJM Interconnection Regulation Market. through their eV2g joint venture ( earlier post ). Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] approval in 2013. In 2013, at the age of 36, Perk became one of the youngest people to receive an Argus II. skiing and shooting arrows. I think I was retraining my brain to see stuff.”

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JUNE 13, 2014

The OSU team’s engineered 2013 Chevrolet Malibu featured a series-parallel plug-in hybrid drive with E85-fueled engine technology. The reengineered 2013 Chevrolet Malibu used a front-wheel-drive system with by a 90 kW Magna E-Drive motor. Conferences and other events Conversions Fuel Efficiency High Octane Fuels Hybrids Plug-ins'

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JANUARY 25, 2014

2013 STO-AVT electric bus test results chart: BYD Electric Bus energy consumption (Wh/km) over speed (km/h). The first phase of a ten-month trial for a 40-foot BYD battery-electric bus (which commenced the Summer of 2013) was completed in Gatineau, Québec and Ottawa, Ontario in December. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I thought [USB] was a [one-off US] $40 million opportunity,” Ajay Bhatt , one of the engineers at Intel who helped develop it, said in a 2013 interview with CNN about the technology. “I In 1992 Bhatt visited the Jones Farm Conference Center , in Hillsboro, Ore., I couldn’t imagine where USB has gone or where it will continue to go.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Raymond Kilmer, executive vice-president and chief technology officer at Alcoa, and Aviv Tzidon, founder and CEO of Phinergy, are presenting the aluminum-air battery electric car project at the Canadian International Aluminium Conference (CIAC) in Montreal. The Alcoa-Phinergy car will be on display at the conference today and tomorrow.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

In April 2013, NHTSA requested pubic comments on further proposed changes to US-NCAP, including crash avoidance technologies as well as crashworthiness.). For example, in September 2012, NHTSA announced it would rate 54 vehicles for the 2013 model year, including 33 passenger cars, 16 sport utility vehicles, one van, and four pickups.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In a PEM fuel cell, hydrogen is supplied to the anode, where it is broken down into protons and electrons. Meanwhile, outside the stack the electrons supply the electrical power. The high-performance battery can store energy recovered from brake applications and supply powerful full-load boosting, enabling the impressive acceleration.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Drayson Racing Technologies and Lola Group unveiled the anticipated electric-powered Le Mans prototype racing car, the Lola-Drayson B12/69EV, at the 2012 Low Carbon Racing Conference at the NEC. The battery pack powers four axial flux Oxford YASA motors via inverters supplied by Rhinehart. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

While analyzing the short-term trajectory of oil prices is certainly important, it obscures the fact that over the long-term, oil exploration companies may struggle to bring new sources of supply online. Capital expenditures increased by almost threefold to $700 billion between 2000 and 2013, while output only increased 17% ( see IEA chart ).

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Efforts are also underway to address various interoperability issues when an EV is roaming between charging networks and to address communication of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) metering data. Harmonization of the communication protocols is already taking place between IEC and SAE but further work is needed.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Power is supplied by a 50 kWh battery pack, comprising 216 63 Ah lithium polymer cells. At the EVS 27 conference in Barcelona, engineers from TUM CREATE presented a paper on the accelerated ageing tests they performed on the large format lithium-ion cells for EVA. Click to enlarge. —Principal Investigator Dr. Daniel Gleyzes.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With that, it has become imperative to extend a Zero Trust architecture to systems of autonomous systems to protect not only drones but also industrial equipment, supply chain automation, and smart cities. In some cases, hackers are finding ways to infiltrate software supply chains to plant targeted malware vulnerabilities.

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JUNE 12, 2015

In June 2013, Audi commissioned a power-to-gas facility in the north German town of Werlte, thus becoming the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy sources. Customers can order a supply of Audi e-gas when purchasing their g-tron. Earlier post.)

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MAY 9, 2013

The UK Centre for Low Carbon Futures published a multi-partner research report— Liquid Air in the energy and transport systems: Opportunities for industry and innovation in the UK —and presented the results at a a conference at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London. Compressed air vs. liquid air. Compressed air engines (e.g.,

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