Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2022

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken , a professor of astronomy at Ankara University , convinced the teenager that electronics engineering was going to be the “next big thing.” He started selling the idea to me and even bribed me by promising an internship at Philips , where he had connections. That was in the late 1950s.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

drilling) not thought to be an important emissions source, according to a study jointly led by Purdue and Cornell universities. emissions from coal seams during the drilling process—that are not captured in the inventory development process. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University funded this research.

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MAY 29, 2012

These scenarios show that, even more modest and realistic goals require near universal participation of major greenhouse gas emitters, Paltsev says. Eighty percent of those emissions came from coal, making China the consumer of about half the world’s coal. The various taxes would slow warming to 3.5,

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. As soon as we decided to pursue this idea, we were trying to figure out how the finances looked,” says Eronen. Eronen says. “It

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JANUARY 24, 2012

In a paper published this month in the International Journal of Maritime Engineering , Paul Stott and Dr Peter Wright of Newcastle University, UK, suggest that the $6-billion Panama Canal expansion program offers the marine industry as a whole an opportunity to reduce its environmental impact. —Paul Stott. —Paul Stott.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I They jumped on the idea. It was a major win-win for everyone.”

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

But some nuclear advocates feel that placing too many nuclear eggs in a single megaproject’s basket is a bad idea. Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. Still, a steadfast consensus remains that nuclear power isn’t just desirable for a clean-energy transition— it’s necessary.

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APRIL 6, 2018

The Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) was established at Stanford more than 40 years ago to bring together leading experts and decision makers from government, industry, universities, and other research organizations to study important energy and environmental issues.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. Our team coined early on the idea of legged and flying robot combination. California State University Channel Islands. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Team CERBERUS.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. University of North Dakota. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. Battelle (PNNL).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The technology underlying Analytica is based on a decade of research by decision analysts, computer scientists, and user-interface designers at Carnegie Mellon University, with support from the National Science Foundation. Analytica Technology.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University. —Richard Lester.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

Tesla had indeed pursued the idea of somehow using the ground and atmosphere as a conduit for long-distance power transmission, a plan that went nowhere. To some, the whole notion of wireless power transmission evokes images of Nikola Tesla with high-voltage coils spewing miniature bolts of lightning. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the centuries, New Haven has had chapters devoted to maritime trade, railroads, industrial manufacturing and — as home to Yale University and other institutions of higher learning — education and health care. Showcasing New Haven as an arts hub is the aim of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Perspective by Professor Bruce Dale, Michigan State University. The basic idea behind ILUC is that biofuels use crops that might otherwise go to traditional uses, such as animal feed. Indirect effects analysis concludes that a new coal-burning power plant will supply the lost electricity, with a huge resulting GHG release.

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JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. Jiang et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 6, 2011

Selaginella moellendorffii (Jing-Ke Weng, Salk University). “When you burn coal, you’re burning Selaginella’s ancestors.” We have a much better idea with Selaginella which genes evolved only in angiosperms. Click to enlarge. ” —Jody Banks.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. This scale model of a floating wind-turbine platform is one of 10 new designs being tested at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility. Another idea is to add more rotors to a single tower. wind-power industry.)

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction. record levels , mostly because of the coal, oil, and natural gas that gets burned for electricity, heat, and transportation. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. cancel the launch.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Additionally, the fear of running out of battery energy without access to a charger is perpetuated by the lack of a universal charging infrastructure. The United Kingdom has introduced a lot of unpopular ideas of late and the public doesn’t appear to be overjoyed with leadership. or from a free-trade agreement partner.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Although the starch-to-ethanol pathway is similar to that used for corn ethanol, based upon initial calculations from Drexel University, OBE’s winter barley ethanol has the potential to meet the criteria of an Advanced Biofuel as defined by the Renewable Fuel Standard-2 (RFS-2) and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 The EV battery start-up company SPARKZ is going to fill its worker needs in its planned West Virginia plant by recruiting and retraining laid off coal miners. Whether they are a good idea is debatable. will not have enough workers to fill the jobs.”.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Clean base load energy is particularly important since that is usually generated by nukes, burning coal or, in the case of Hawaii, oil. Mr. Agassi has raised $200 million in private financing for his idea. Kammen, a professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

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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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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

They couldn’t tell the difference between a bright day at the beach and being in a coal mine in Pittsburgh. The idea that they were getting some kind of vision, it was kind of electrifying—for the patients and the doctors.”. I never have any regrets about doing this.” Jeroen Perk. These people were completely in the dark,” he says.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. Instead of drastically scaling up power-grid infrastructure, our work at the University of Vermont has focused on how to coordinate demand in real time to match the increasingly variable supply.

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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. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. Methane (CH 4 ) emissions from landfills, livestock operations, or coal mines (GWP = 25). Supplementarity refers to the idea that the role of offsets in an emission reduction program should be secondary to reduction efforts at regulated emission sources.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Reduced Output.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal. CONCLUSION.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# When the team tested the newly-coated cathode, they discovered it could be charged and discharged in as little as 9 seconds. About Gas 2.0 on It’s On! is a Green Options Media Production.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Munger, the 85-year-old vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is a curmudgeon who frowns on most investment ideas. "When I call Charlie with an idea," Buffett tells me, "and he says, That is really a dumb idea, that means we should put 100% of our net worth into it. The day after Fortunes visit to BYD, Oregon Gov.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. I love the idea of powering my car from solar power. So for now were sticking with PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." and General Motors Corp.

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