Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Devarenne’s lab has been studying the concept of making fuel from algae on a $2-million National Science Foundation grant for four years.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

She joined IBM Research in Zurich in 1998 while pursuing her doctorate in physics in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth , also in Germany. In 2017 IBM released a new transistor—the Nanosheet—that uses the concepts Riel says she and her team developed between 2005 and 2012. After earning her Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) Nature Energy 1, Article number: 16111 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.111.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It will also use its imaginative and creative logic to suggest new concepts and solutions for you. The technology generation of 2050 will likely be interested in solving mission-based issues such as climate change, universal access to health care, sustainable food sources, and ubiquitous energy generation and transmission.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

A team at Stanford University is proposing using solid oxide fuel cells as the basis for a method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture (EPICC) as a means to provide transportation services from oil shale with greatly reduced CO 2 emissions. The chemical energy contained in the shale is converted to work (e.g.,

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JULY 30, 2023

Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful. Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. But by the late 1970s, Exxon’s interest in oil alternatives had waned.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. The purpose of the concept, said Edgar G. Only 30% of total carbon from the biomass feedstock is converted to fuel.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Concept of the SOFC emissions control system. A team from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, reports that a low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) emissions control system for lean-burn engines can simultaneously reduce the high concentrations of NO x and oxidize hydrocarbon (HC) emissions. Credit: ACS, Huang et al.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. While the general design of SONYC and FloodNet sensor networks build upon the same basic concept of sensor networks, they are based on two different types of sensor technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

Concept for hydrogen gas coproduction from cellulosic ethanol byproduct streams. Researchers at Oregon State University have demonstrated the gasification of water-soluble biomass constituents in supercritical water in a microchannel reactor under isothermal, continuous flow condition at short residence times to produce a hydrogen-rich gas.

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APRIL 23, 2022

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

This is the moment that the concept of electronic paper, or e-paper, went mainstream. Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. It was the end of 2008, October, right before the holiday shopping season.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. While Elkind, the other comanager of the Computer Science Laboratory, was skeptical of the proposal, he became a convert after seeing the prototype Alto in April 1973.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.”

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JUNE 2, 2023

Goh, Ufuk Topcu, and Avinash Balachandran from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, Calif., This paper presents a quadrotor prototype of this concept and the design details and realization in practice. body length per second (BL/s), faster than most reported soft crawlers in mm/s and BL/s.

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MARCH 6, 2024

In fact, Ozzie Zehner wrote an article for us way back in the mid-Teens about the— the dirty secret behind your electric car is the coal that fuels it. So we have to retain the capacity on some level— and this actually is a personal thing with me, is that I believe in the concept of personal computing.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

In a Perspective published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , researchers from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California describe their work on developing the feasible anthropogenic recycling of carbon dioxide. In their paper, Olah et al.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

Researchers at the University of Maryland are proposing a new process to isolate and to direct the evolution of microorganisms that convert cellulosic biomass or gaseous CO 2 and H 2 to biofuels such as ethanol, 1-butanol, butane, or hexane (among others). Microbial cultures from the rumen converted 1% cellobiose to 0.5%

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The concept of mixotrophy and its demonstration. (a,b) Tracy (2016) “CO 2 fixation by anaerobic non-photosynthetic mixotrophy for improved carbon conversion” Nature Communications 7, Article number: 12800 doi: 10.1038/ncomms12800. In this study, researchers tested how C. Antoniewicz, Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis & Bryan P.

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JULY 5, 2011

Researchers at Stanford University, led by Dr. Yi Cui, have developed a method for pre-lithiating a silicon nanowire (SiNW) anode for use in a Li-ion battery. As a proof of concept, they constructed a full battery using a pre-lithiated SiNW anode with a sulfur cathode. ACS Nano Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/nn201716. Sulfur cell.

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JULY 2, 2023

This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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AUGUST 2, 2015

After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device. Diagram credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 5, 2013

The new analysis follows up on 2011 research that produced a proof of concept of an artificial leaf—a small device that, when placed in a container of water and exposed to sunlight, would produce bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen. The original demonstration leaf in 2011 had low efficiencies, converting less than 4.7% Earlier post.)

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 4, 2021

Automobile companies are already developing interim technologies, such as solar roof panels for charging batteries and internal systems, to capitalize on the concept. This car was designed for Solar Racing by University of New South Wales students. Aesthetics play a role in some of these. Sono Motors’ Sion.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The concept for the high-performance hybrid electric microturbine vehicle was developed by Electronic Arts Chief Creative Director Richard Hilleman, creator of popular video games, with support from Capstone Turbine. Capstone’s CMT-380 is just now finishing up the conceptual design and first article testing stage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is. The closest to that source is solar.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Gallery: Plugging in at home Battery swap stations are a concept often associated with Better Place , an EV infrastructure company. ↓ ↑ report 16 Vlad 10:25AM (4/10/2009) I dont think that home-charging is even a question and that it will be universally available soon. I would prefer to recharge at home, and could do so.

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