Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Click to enlarge.

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Lithium Sulfur New York Batteries Battery 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The method can be applied to other electrode materials, too, making energy-dense, low-cost battery materials a realistic possibility. There are huge challenges associated with using low-cost,micrometre-sized Si source materials. —Yi Cui. Here we introduce a method to encapsulate Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm).

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

This proprietary novel gas fermentation technology converts the carbon monoxide-containing waste gases emitted by blast furnace, coke oven and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) operations into low-cost ethanol and high-value chemicals. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. One problem with mass-producing sensors, however, is that it creates a lot of waste.

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Cheap Universal Low Cost Exhaust 144

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

And oil only seems cheap. When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. And no one asked what it would cost. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. Its impacts are increasingly unaffordable.

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