Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

—Ilja Siepmann, a University of Minnesota chemistry professor and director of the DOE-funded Nanoporous Materials Genome Center. The code performance enhancements allowed Siepmann and his team to carry out simulations for the two zeolite applications of industrial relevance. Siepmann, University of Minnesota. Bai and J.I.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Further, like other industries, the energy business has become digitized , meaning the skills needed are different from those previously required. Xcel Energy in Minnesota, for example, has already started to upgrade distribution transformers because of potential residential EV electrical-load issues.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2009

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. The results also show that as the ethanol industry expands to areas that apply more irrigated water than others, consumptive water appropriation by bioethanol in the US has increased 246% from 1.9

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

By 1980, customers in many industries were telling their IBM contacts to enter the fray. As developers began writing software for the IBM PC, they embraced DOS as the industry standard. It was already clear that Microsoft was going to become one of the most successful firms in the industry. A large software industry grew up.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Not only had the triode made long-distance telephony and movie sound possible, it was driving the entire enterprise of commercial radio, an industry worth more than a billion dollars in 1929. This article appears in the December 2022 print issue as “The First Transistor and How it Worked.”. A year after Bardeen’s lecture, R.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The effects of Simon’s “profound changes” are readily apparent, forcing a 120-year-old industry to fundamentally reinvent itself. Volvo’s CEO Jim Rowan stated earlier this year that increasing the computing power in EVs will be harder and more altering of the automotive industry than switching from ICE vehicles to EVs.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

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Teslarati

AUGUST 6, 2022

I received some great feedback on one of my recent articles from Todd Malan, Chief External. The two companies signed an offtake partnership in January of this year to supply nickel from Talon’s project in central Minnesota. Todd read my article, Automakers are not too happy with Senator Manchin’s EV tax credit.

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