Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Accordingly, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office, which sponsored this research, has set a goal of 2% fuel economy improvement via lubricant advances by 2015. Ionic liquids are “room temperature molten salts”, composed of cations & anions, instead of neutral molecules. Blau, Sheng Dai, Michael B.

Fuel Economy 369

Fuel Economy Oil Economy Engine 369

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built.

Molten Salt 150

Molten Salt Fuel Concept United States 150

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France. The Iter project has greatly increased researchers’ knowledge about magnetic-confinement fusion and spurred the development of the industry’s highly specialized global supply chain and workforce.

Fusion 98

Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building 98