Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2018
Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully used inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low-level waste heat into electricity.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2011
A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. The study finds that the technologies required for a solution exist now.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Stressing the power of “ and ” rather than “ or ”, he asserted that: The automobile is unsustainable without transformational change. He also called the propensity to “ sit around debating ” which drive technology or energy source is better than all the rest as “premature and presumptuous ”. There is a transformation opportunity surfacing.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 25, 2018
Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have more than doubled the ability of a material to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly narrowing the space through which spread electrons move, according to a new open-access study published in the journal Nature Communications.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast and Dr. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. The research project was undertaken by researchers working at Euromed Management School Marseille, Queen’s University Belfast and IZT—Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin. Click to enlarge.
Drive Electric
APRIL 4, 2023
In New Zealand, the Ministry for the Environment and the New Zealand Automobile Associatio n are working together to ensure that old EV batteries are handled in an environmentally responsible way. The programme’s foundation is built on the concept of a circular economy , which seeks to avoid the linear “take-to-waste” model.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 4, 2015
Researchers at the University of Houston, with their colleagues at Boston College, have created a new thermoelectric material—germanium-doped magnesium stannide (Mg 2 Sn 0.75 Ge 0.25 )—intended to generate electric power from waste heat with greater efficiency and higher output power than currently available materials.
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