Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2024

Given that, I was curious to figure out exactly why 3M became the most memorable brand in data storage during the formative days of computing, and why it abandoned the product. Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s. inch floppy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

million Series A round of financing led by venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DFJ Mercury, both leading investors in early-stage clean technology companies. GlycosBio’s technologies will bolster economics of the ethanol and biodiesel industries by upgrading glycerin-rich co-products to a variety of chemical intermediates.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

It also generates renewable natural gas as a product. Ogilvie says that while fuels production from algae may ultimately prove viable, right now the focus on higher-margin biochemicals provides a more sustainable economic base for the business. Kelly Ogilvie. Currently, BME can produce ethyl-butyrate for about $0.02/gram

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Drive Electric

APRIL 5, 2023

It is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut our greenhouse emissions, because it reduces the $9b a year New Zealand spends importing oil products from overseas,” said Mr. Gilbert. . “Moving to electric vehicles as quickly as possible is the right move for the environment and the economy.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Flexiv’s Grav Enhanced gripper uses a gecko adhesive, which has historically been difficult to do in a commercial context. Zoox ] At Capacity, a forward-thinking third-party logistics firm with expertise in Health and Beauty products, AI-robotic putwalls from Covariant are key to delivering superior customer experiences. CMU RI ]

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2009

billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand and accelerate the commercial deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and reuse technology. The second part of the solicitation will include innovative concepts for beneficial CO 2 reuse (CO 2 mineralization, algae production, etc.)

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Carbon Coal Mercury Arizona 150

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JULY 14, 2009

The 50-MWe system will include technologies to remove trace elements such as mercury and arsenic, capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), and extract more than 99.9% A novel process to convert the extracted sulfur to a pure elemental sulfur product will also be tested. of the sulfur from the syngas. Background.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2022

Over the years, memory has been made up of vacuum tubes, glass tubes filled with mercury and, most recently, semiconductors. s commercial derivative became the first electronic computer marketed as a standard product delivered to a customer.”. Without random-access memory, a computer today can’t even boot up.

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JULY 22, 2011

urea production. TCEP will be an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) 400 MW power/poly-gen plant that will capture 90% of the carbon dioxide, 99% of the sulfur, more than 95% of the mercury, and eliminate more than 90% of the nitrogen oxides produced by the process. urea production. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. DOE Share: $24,243,509). Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd.

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Conversion CO2 San Antonio Carbon 225

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

government, and PurpleAir , created via crowd-sourcing of commercial sensors. A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.

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Stimulus Package Stimulus Mercury Power 83

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

EUV lithography, the product of decades of R&D, is now the driving technology behind the past two generations of cutting-edge chips, used in every top-end smartphone, tablet, laptop, and server in the last three years. The illustration shows today’s commercial system with a 0.33 numerical aperture.

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Light Mercury Manufacturer Belgium 98

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MARCH 27, 2018

KULR Technology’s core technology is a proprietary, vertically-aligned carbon fiber cooling material that is lighter, more flexible and more efficient than traditional thermal management products.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

Its LSI Group, headed at that time by Albert Charpentier, had been responsible for some of the chips that went into Commodore’s VIC-20 home computer, but that project was already well into production. “We The initial production cost of the Commodore 64 was targeted at $130; it turned out to be $135. It was just common sense.

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Engine Design Personal Production 118

EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Similarly, Ford’s entire commercial vehicle range will be zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, by 2024, with two-thirds of Ford’s commercial vehicle sales expected to be all-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2030. 5 coupe, will go into production in 2021 – Volkswagen confirmed that its next electric vehicle, the ID.5,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

[See EnergyCSs Greg Hanssens Hydrogen Bridges PDF ] We believe, however, that the advantages of flex-fuel PHEVs (and, counting conversion efficiencies, the 4X energy storage advantage of batteries over fuel cells) mean that the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles may never happen. Were non-profit; theyre private companies.

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