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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. This article is based on that interview. While at Stanford, Parker says, she fell in love with California. State but said she regretted leaving California. There she met her husband.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to data from CapitolTrades , a website dedicated to showing the financial trades made by Federal lawmakers, numerous members of Congress have been buying thousands of dollars worth of Tesla ( NASDAQ: TSLA ) stock over the past three months, including in October, as the stock has tumbled to lows for the year.

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JUNE 3, 2019

The company partnered with NASA experts in combustion and additive manufacturing (3D printing) at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; and Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

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JULY 8, 2016

Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. Christensen is a leader in the setting of national policy for the field of robotics and has testified before Congress on the subject.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

constitutional amendment that was passed by the National Congress of Chile and signed by the president, the people of Chile are the first in the world to be granted a new kind of human rights—“neurorights”—which advocates say are made necessary by rapid advances in neurotechnology. Chile’s congress is currently considering.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These are the observations in an in-depth study of the industry by management professors at the University of California, Davis, and Dartmouth College. The article, “The Business of Electric Vehicles: A Platform Perspective,” was published recently in Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Researchers at the University of Surrey (UK), with colleagues from the University of California, Irvine and Johns Hopkins University, have developed a new material that is as stiff as metal but flexible enough to withstand strong vibrations (damping). Ryan, Manuel Pelacci, James K.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

kg in California in the third quarter of 2018. This article compares the economics of various existing hydrogen-delivery methods with the economics of a novel variation on pipeline delivery: a high-pressure, scalable, intra-city pipeline system referred to here as the “HyLine” system.

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JUNE 8, 2010

A study by a team from UC Santa Cruz, California, has found that concentrations of environmental lead contamination from historic emissions (industry and leaded fuel) continue to persist in California. However, isotopic compositions of contemporary samples still correspond to those of previous leaded gasoline emissions in California.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

High Gear Media , the publisher of 75 targeted consumer automotive websites, and Tesla Motors are launching an automotive writing contest to win a tour and test drive of the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport in California. To enter, contestants must submit their own articles using High Gear Media’s open content platform at [link].

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

At the 1895 International Geographical Congress, Rebeur-Paschwitz proposed setting up a worldwide network of seismological stations. An abridged version of this article appears in the September 2023 print issue as “The Earthquake That Was Too Big to Measure.” References I began my research for this piece by reading J.

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APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Changling Li, Chueh Liu, Wei Wang, Zafer Mutlu, Jeffrey Bell, Kazi Ahmed, Rachel Ye, Mihrimah Ozkan & Cengiz S.

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As we wait for Congress to fully return from their recess and vote on various legislation, I continue to be extremely concerned about how as much as $10 billion in federal government grants will be be spent on EV charging infrastructure. But as I outlined in my recent article, How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America? ,

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APRIL 24, 2009

During its meeting on Thursday, the California Air Resources Board heard the results of a study that found childhood asthma rates could increase as much as 30% with the exposure to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution. The eight-year study followed 217 non-asthmatic children from a wide area of Southern California.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

However, researchers know little about the impact of such emissions at general aviation or regional airports—which are becoming a more important component of the global air transport system, and which tend to be located closer to residential neighborhoods than major airports, the article notes. Winer and Suzanne E. Technol. ,

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MARCH 28, 2011

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside and the University of Science and Technology of China synthesized monodisperse V 2 O 5 microspheres with a porous structure. 2011, Advance Article doi: 10.1039/C0JM04398B. It also shows excellent low-temperature behavior with a reversible capacity of 102 mA h g -1 at -20 °C.

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MAY 14, 2018

For the study, sourced ambient PM from Riverside, California, and selectively exposed rats to coarse (PM 2.5–10 10 ) in Los Angeles Basin air induces expression of inflammation and cancer biomarkers in rat brains” Scientific Reports Volume 8, Article number: 5708 doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23885-3. Dr. Ljubimova.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The Hyperloop has already created extreme controversy with skeptics citing everything from the cost of land in California to the substantial g-forces that would impact passengers being accelerated from 0 to 700+ miles per hour in a short span of time. More on that in a future article. Article Source: [link].

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JULY 1, 2019

The research, published in the journal Joule , builds on innovations first reported in Science in 2017 by the same research group at the University of California San Diego and the university spinout South 8 Technologies. The porosity in the presence of conventional electrolytes jumps to 16.8%. 1721646).

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JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century.

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MARCH 2, 2016

The team defined hype as a period with a rising number of media articles containing a growing share of positive evaluations about a particular technology. They also developed a coding guide to help identify evaluative statements in each article—coded as positive or negative. Melton et al. 2016.13.

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MAY 19, 2014

A new review article in the journal Science highlights emerging opportunities to increase the transformation of lignin to value-added products—i.e., lignin valorization. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al., 2014) “Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery.”

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JUNE 10, 2019

Other authors include Sandia researchers William Mook and Daniel Bufford and former Sandia researcher and experimental lead Claire Chisholm, who is now at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The work was funded in part by Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program. Bufford, Khalid Hattar, Timothy J.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Thomas, Haiyan Wang & Xinghang Zhang (2017) “High-velocity projectile impact induced 9R phase in ultrafine-grained aluminium” Nature Communications 8, Article number: 1653 doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01729-4. Sichuang Xue, Zhe Fan, Olawale B. Lawal, Ramathasan Thevamaran, Qiang Li, Yue Liu, K. Yu, Jian Wang, Edwin L.

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JUNE 17, 2016

A team of researchers at the University of Southern California has developed a robust, reusable iridium catalyst that enables hydrogen gas release from neat formic acid. Williams (2016) “A prolific catalyst for dehydrogenation of neat formic acid” Nature Communications 7, Article number: 11308 doi: 10.1038/ncomms11308. Lo & Travis J.

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MAY 20, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide (RuO 2 ) anchored graphene and CNT foam architecture (RGM) for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. (a) Schematic illustration of the preparation process of RGM nanostructure foam. Source: UCR. Click to enlarge. Batteries'

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

A team led by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced has developed an efficient molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) catalyst for driving the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). —Chen et al. The work at Sandia was funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Resources.

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MARCH 17, 2010

His study estimates that local CO 2 emissions may increase premature mortality by 50-100 and 300-1,000/year in California and the US, respectively. Articles ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903018m. Although the health impacts of such changes are uncertain, he notes, they are of concern. Mark Jacobson.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

The issue is edited by Wilfred Elders, a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Riverside, who also co-authored three of the research papers in the special issue with Icelandic colleagues. The experiment at Krafla suffered various setbacks that tried personnel and equipment throughout. —Wilfred Elders.

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APRIL 13, 2017

The new solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency record is 16.2%, topping a reported 14% efficiency in 2015 by an international team made up of researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, TU Ilmenau, Fraunhofer ISE and the California Institute of Technology. A paper in Nature Energy outlines how NREL’s new record was achieved. France, John A.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es102671x. t, and societal acceptability of this and other approaches to CO 2 emissions reduction and ocean acidity mitigation. —Greg Rau. Rau; CO 2 Mitigation via Capture and Chemical Conversion in Seawater.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found that adding tin nanoparticles—even in small amounts—to a silicon-based anode provides significant improvements in performance in terms of both charge capacity and cycling stability. Resources. Beaudette, J. Bozhilov & L.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

Two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Applying STREET to the South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB) in California as an example, the researchers found that A significant adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and the associated infrastructure by the year 2060 would substantially improve urban air quality. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es901515y.

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MAY 22, 2014

—Peidong Yang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. By exploring the thermogalvanic effect, [the MIT and Stanford researchers] were able to convert low-grade heat to electricity with decent efficiency. It is a very promising technology. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery'

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel nano-silicon paper electrode material for high capacity lithium-ion batteries. Cycling data for C-coated SiNFs compared to uncoated SiNFs at C/10 (1C = 4 A g ?1 Favors et al. Click to enlarge. Batteries'

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