Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2017

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partners will present their new prototype of an electric four-wheel drive utility vehicle designed for Africa—the aCar — at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt next month. to set up a mobile physician’s office or a water treatment station.

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MAY 11, 2017

The projects support California’s Sustainable Freight Action Plan, which was developed in 2016 to help the state’s freight transport system become more efficient, more economically competitive, and less polluting. The Monterey Peninsula Airport District received $3 million to install a solar energy system at the Monterey Regional Airport.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2018

The first challenge, launched in 2016, targeted essential molecules: O 2 , N 2 , H 2 and CO 2.

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

The Clipper’s primary goal is to determine whether Europa hosts conditions suitable for life in an immense liquid water ocean that lies under its icy surface. The engineering components and science instruments that make up the spacecraft’s flight hardware began development in 2016 and are expected to be completed by the end of 2022.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (the MagLab) at Florida State University (FSU) will leverage existing capabilities to develop and demonstrate an integrated process to convert preprocessed corn stover into SAF through a catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP), biocrude intermediate upgrading pathway. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.) 5b00400.

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JANUARY 21, 2015

Governor Jerry Brown’s office informed the university this month that the fueling facility had received the certification, known as California Type Approval. is the largest such facility on a university campus in the United States and produces hydrogen on site. Source: Dr. David Blekhman. Click to enlarge. The station is grid-tied.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Illustration credit: Licht, from Scientific Reports at Nature.com, 6:27760, 2016. Click to enlarge. Stuart Licht.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It will also include a small spacecraft capable of "hopping" to explore shadowed craters for evidence of potential water ice, a resource that, if present, could be used in the future for both propulsion and supplies for astronauts. Chang'e-7 will target a lunar south pole landing and consist of an orbiter, relay satellite, lander, and rover.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A team of researchers from the UK’s Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute and Queen’s University Belfast have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass—without significant pre-treatment—using sunlight and a metal-loaded titania photocatalyst. —Caravaca et al. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues in China, have developed a tandem solar cell consisting of an approximately 700-nm-thick nanoporous Mo-doped bismuth vanadate (BiVO 4 ) (Mo:BiVO 4 ) layer on an engineered Si nanocone substrate. The nanocone/Mo:BiVO 4 assembly is in turn combined with a solar cell made of perovskite.

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MAY 26, 2016

With the goal of making the Pasha terminal a more sustainable and resilient facility that can operate independently off the grid in the event of a power loss, the project also features a microgrid that includes solar generation, battery storage and an energy management system to maximize usage. PermaCity (solar energy installation).

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated solar water splitting by photovoltaic-electrolysis with a solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency of more than 30%—a new record. The results, the researchers said, demonstrate the potential of photovoltaic-electrolysis systems for cost-effective solar energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The team reports on their host-guest system of Ta:TiO 2 |BiVO 4 as a photoanode for use in solar water splitting cells in an open-access paper in the journal ACS Central Science. The host–guest nanowire architecture allows for simultaneously high light absorption and carrier collection efficiency for efficient solar water oxidation.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. By the end of FY 2015, achieve best in class solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at $1.85/watt Contribute to international efforts to address global climate change. watt utility, $2.37/watt

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MARCH 27, 2015

Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. Solar panels run the length of the top of the SuperTruck’s trailer, helping to charge the hybrid battery, which in turn powers the eHVAC system. The truck chassis was redesigned as well.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The research, published in the journal Science , outlines a potential way to make a future generation of water-splitting catalysts from three abundant metals—iron (Fe), cobalt (Co) and tungsten (W)—rather than the rare, costly metals on which many of today’s catalysts rely. For this study, Edward H.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks. In fact, the Air Force is aiming to get half of its domestic jet fuel from alternative sources by 2016.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

And third, while wind and solar-photovoltaic systems are great for the climate and are the fastest-growing sources of electric generation, the variability of their output begets new challenges for balancing the grid. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. kilowatt-hours.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Mattershift.

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JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2016

Researchers at Columbia University are investigating the use of membraneless electrochemical flow cells for hydrogen production from water electrolysis that are based on angled mesh flow-through electrodes. Esposito (2016) “Hydrogen Production with a Simple and Scalable Membraneless Electrolyzer” J. —O’Neil et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To avoid CO 2 emissions associated with H2-production, electrolysis of water powered by solar, wind or hydroelectricity would be a preferred source and has achieved a level of maturity and success. Alternatively, syngas can be added to sugar fermentation to provide the necessary reducing power and carbon. … Jones, Alan G.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2016

Using an engineered strain of the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, a team from the University of Washington, Utah State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have reduced carbon dioxide to methane in one enzymatic step. Fixen, Yanning Zheng, Derek F. Dean, Lance C.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The Q7 PHEV will arrive in dealerships in Germany in 2016, and will likely come to the US, although perhaps with a gasoline-engine variant. Alternatively they can serve as buffers for renewables such as wind and solar power—whether as part of the grid or as home installations. Audi e-tron quattro concept SUV.

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