Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Breathing vanadium-rich aerosols has unknown but potentially adverse health impacts, according to the researchers, who note that the human impacts on the global vanadium cycle parallel impacts on the global cycles for lead and mercury. Klein, and Avner Vengosh (2017) “Global biogeochemical cycle of vanadium” PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1715500114.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In a new study, Harvard University researchers found more than 90% of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to increase concentrations of the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) in food webs near indigenous communities. The research is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. Rather, the panels reach far beyond Earth’s atmosphere to tap the distant cold of deep space. Sound crazy?

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

In the case of the 2017 Tubbs Fire, the 2018 Camp Fire, and the 2020 August Complex Fires, high winds blasted flames through populated areas in the early morning hours while residents were sleeping. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach.

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JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. E In a 2013 study, Sandberg and his colleague Stuart Armstrong suggested deploying automated self-replicating robots on Mercury to build a Dyson swarm.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

The ISC break-through received the prestigious R&D100 Award in 2016 and was runner-up NASA invention of the year in 2017 and is now part of NASA’s “Crewed Space Vehicle Battery Safety Requirements.”. KULR will begin shipping the ISC and ISC trigger cells in October, 2018. The ISC is a major step towards making battery technologies safer.

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