Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Earlier post.) I.e., on an energy basis at the point of use, the CO 2.

MIT 299

MIT Gas Transportation Future 299

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

MIT 150

MIT Water Energy CO2 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2010

Nocera pictures small-scale systems in which rooftop solar panels would provide electricity, with any excess going to an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen, which would be stored in tanks. But in further work, “ we have totally gotten rid of the platinum of the hydrogen side ,” Nocera says. Earlier post.). 1001859107.

Low Cost 225

Low Cost Water MIT Hydrogen 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

A team of MIT researchers, led by Dr. Angela Belcher, has engineered a common bacteriophage virus (M13) to function as a scaffold to mediate the co-assembly of zinc porphyrins (photosensitizer) and iridium oxide hydrosol clusters (catalyst) for visible light-driven water oxidation. Tags: Biotech Hydrogen Production Nanotech.

MIT 207

MIT Water Engine Hydrogen 207

Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2024

Now, an MIT spin-off says it has found a solution in an innovative technology that could dramatically reduce the costs and timelines of drilling to fantastic depths. Woskov spent decades working with powerful microwave beams, steering them into precise locations to heat hydrogen fuel above 100 million degrees to initiate fusion reactions. “It

Fusion 141

Fusion Energy MIT Iceland 141

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at Harvard have created a hybrid water splitting–biosynthetic system based on a biocompatible Earth-abundant inorganic catalyst system to split water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H 2 and O 2 ) at low driving voltages. This is the genius of Dan. These catalysts are totally biologically compatible. —Pamela Silver.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Fuel Water Universal 150

The Truth About Cars

JUNE 26, 2023

Corn-based ethanol was big for a while and the Germans have recently shown a renewed interest in carbon monoxide and hydrogen-based synthetic fuel stemming from the gasification of coal, biomass, and/or methane. Its value to society and for commercial uses are worth anticipating.”

Engine 105

Engine Power Powered Cars 105

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2011

Researchers have demonstrated a route for the production of major commercial C 3. hydrocarbons (propane and propylene) from renewable biomass via the hydrothermal conversion of well-known fermentation end-products (butyric acid and 3-hydroxybutyrate) without the use of exogenous hydrogen. —Fischer et al. Authors Curt R.

Production 278

Production MIT Water Universal 278

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Surrounding a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber, a 3-meter-tall stack of high-temperature superconducting magnets will create a powerful magnetic field to squeeze and corral a swirling, superheated mass of hydrogen plasma. In 2015, Mumgaard huddled with a group of his fellow MIT researchers to rethink the approach to fusion power.

Fusion 98

Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2009

California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols met with US Energy Secretary Steven Chu in May and followed up that meeting with a letter, urging the continuation of funding to support research, development and deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Source: DOE Hydrogen Program & Vehicle Technologies Program, 2009 Merit Review.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Fuel California Vehicles 150

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

Is NRDC drinking the hydrogen kool-aid? Imagine for a moment that the world had rejected wind and solar energy, and instead decided to wait for a hydrogen fusion research program to reach fruition. Fortunately for the world, wind and solar are growing rapidly, while hydrogen fusion research remains speculative at best.

Hydrogen 100

Hydrogen Renewable Wind Fusion 100

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

The clean syngas may then be converted into transportation fuels such as ethanol and diesel, or industrial products such as hydrogen and methanol. Based in Bend, Oregon, InEnTec LLC was formed by engineers from MIT, Battelle, and GE. The syngas could also be used as a substitute for natural gas for heating or electricity generation.

Waste 170

Waste Seattle Energy Oregon 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Managed by the Energy Department’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, the new projects will build on that success by researching alternative methods of extraction and the potential for commercialization, as well as the environmental impact of natural gas extraction from hydrate formations. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Oregon 230

Oregon Water Universal Washington 230

Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

He probably is best known for developing the lithium cobalt oxide cathode in 1980—which became the foundation for Sony’s first commercial lithium-ion battery in 1991. He studied under Enrico Fermi , the physicist who created the world’s first nuclear chain reaction, and Edward Teller , the so-called “father of the hydrogen bomb.”

Lithium Ion 97

Lithium Ion Batteries Battery Austin 97

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen; Organism: Cupriavidus necator; Product: Biodiesel.

Carbon 249

Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries. earlier post ).

MIT 150

MIT Li-ion Batteries Battery 150

Plugs and Cars

APRIL 23, 2007

The Technology Review published by MIT reports on the hydrogen fuel cell version of the Volt announced in Shanghai. The flexible electric car platform is innovative, but the fuel-cell version is freighted with hydrogen's flaws.swapping out the generator for a fuel cell may be a step backward.

Volt 100

Volt GM MIT Hydrogen 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

JCAP seeks to discover new ways to produce energy-dense fuels, such as hydrogen and carbon-based fuels, using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as inputs. Success could ultimately drive commercial development of solar-fuel systems designed from inception to be easily deployable almost anywhere.

Solar 150

Solar Fuel Water Light 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded MIT associate professor of metallurgy Antoine Allanore a $1.9-million splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The MIT molten sulfide electrolysis process eliminates sulfur dioxide, a noxious byproduct of traditional copper extraction methods, instead producing pure elemental sulfur.

MIT 223

MIT Production 2017 Renewable 223

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Researchers at MIT had earlier demonstrated the ability to make biopropane (LPG from corn or sugarcane) using a supercritical water process, and created a startup (C3 BioEnergy) in 2007 that attempted to commercialize the technology. The University of Kitakyushu process for the conversion of DME to LPG using hydrogen.

USA 239

USA Engine Alternative Fuels Gasoline 239

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The MIT will develop a new generation of power electronics based on vertical gallium nitride (GaN) superjunction diodes and transistors that can vastly exceed the performance of today’s GaN power devices. A Zero-emission Process for Direct Reduction of Iron by Hydrogen Plasma in a Rotary Kiln Reactor - $1,200,000. Pratt & Whitney.

Clean 284

Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 284

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., But there needs to be some infrastructure to support more commercial or public sector uses.

Clean 105

Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 105

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2009

One of the obstacles to commercializing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is the cost of the fuel cells themselves. Gasteiger of MIT and M. Tags: Catalysts Fuel Cells Hydrogen. milligram of platinum per square centimeter at a cell voltage of ?0.9 Lefèvre et al. In a commentary appearing in the Science issue, Hubert A.

Fuel 150

Fuel Polymer 2009 Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Heliogen, a company that is transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels, recently announced its launch and also said that it has—for the first time commercially—concentrated solar energy to exceed temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius.

Industrial 355

Industrial Industry Los Angeles Solar 355

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor that might be realized in as little as a decade: the ARC (affordable, robust, compact) reactor. The finished, 2.3-ton This significant improvement leads to a cascade of potential improvements in reactor design.

Fusion 150

Fusion MIT Affordable Molten Salt 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. Such a system would use sunlight to produce a storable fuel, such as hydrogen, instead of electricity for immediate use.

MIT 218

MIT Low Cost Solar Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2.

Carbon 303

Carbon Production Conversion Universal 303

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The grant will support the commercialization and deployment of an energy storage system based on EnStorage’s proprietary hydrogen bromide (HBr) flow battery and Princeton Power Systems’ inverters and site controller.

Grant 220

Grant Hydrogen Power 220

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

Researchers have developed a previously undescribed approach to optimize hydrogen production in a photosynthetic process by microorganisms such as algae and cyanobacteria. Adding the bioengineered enzyme increases the rate of algal hydrogen production by about 400%, Yacoby says. —Yacoby et al. ” —Iftach Yacoby.

Hydrogen 231

Hydrogen Production Fusion 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

A commercially viable OCM process—which has been sought for some 30 years— would decouple the production of mainstream chemicals and fuels from crude oil and its current price instabilities, along with reducing energy consumed for processing. ” —Alex Tkachenko.

Conversion 274

Conversion Transportation Fuel Carbon 274

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

convert natural gas into methanol and hydrogen. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. deployed remotely, MIT’s reformer could be used for small, remote sources of gas. commercial and military market. Gas Technology.

2012 240

2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion 240

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

There are also a lot of other components, as you can imagine—there hasn’t been a commercial dual-chemistry architecture before. Did my undergrad at MIT and then PhD at Berkeley, pretty much all in energy technologies—solar, hydrogen storage for fuel cell vehicles. Charged : You have a diverse history in the battery industry.

Miles 65

Miles Range DC Batteries 65

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Continues promotion and development of hydrogen as long-term strategy. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. No announced plans.

Plug-in 45

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Ford’s Farley foresees that the heavy-duty truck segment will be sticking with ICE trucks for a while, as “it will probably go hydrogen fuel cell before it goes pure electric.” Mercedes Chief Technology Officer Marcus Schäfer agrees and does not see EV/ICE price parity “with the [battery] chemistry we have today.”

Buy 92

Buy GM Range Purchase 92

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes. The only other similar alternative is hydrogen and the economics on those cars are even worst so far.

Electric Cars 28

Electric Cars Charging Cars 2009 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Volt like hybrids are the intermediate future between hydrogen or fast charging electric cars.

Volt 41

Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41