Remove Affordable Remove News Remove Utah Remove Water
article thumbnail

USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Green Car Congress

Scientists at the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies on Santa Catalina Island, working with private industry, report that a new aquaculture technique on the California coast significantly increases kelp growth, yielding four times more biomass than natural processes. The researchers used a depth-cycling approach—i.e.,

Mariner 468
article thumbnail

GM leaps ahead in lithium mining race, secures next-gen extraction deal

Teslarati

EnergyX, which GM has invested an undisclosed amount of capital into, is looking to pioneer a new lithium extraction method entirely, which could place GM at the forefront of the most affordable lithium on the planet. These facilities will be built in Argentina, Chile, California, Arkansas, and Utah, respectively.

GM 100
article thumbnail

The Real Story of Pixar

Cars That Think

That kind of computing power was not affordable in the mid-1970s. Catmull and Blanchard had been involved with software designed to build 3D geometric objects at the University of Utah. But then our Computer Graphics Group, now numbering 40 people, got the news that the Computer Division was on the chopping block.

GM 145
article thumbnail

Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

I haven’t been breaking any hard news, I’ve just been spreading the news that doesn’t get enough attention and adding my take on top of it for the majority of my readers who don’t have the time to dig as deep as I do. If anything, the latest news about climate change should cause us to accelerate our efforts.

Green 150