Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2015

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. The science of biomass conversion is very complicated. Researchers have used expensive precious metal catalysts such as platinum for biomass conversion.

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Green Car Congress

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. This same analysis (Pearson et al. Jiang et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The team, from Belgium, France and the US, led by researchers from VIB and Ghent University, concluded that CCR down-regulation may become a successful strategy to improve biomass processing if the yield penalty can be overcome. Wout Boerjan, VIB and Ghent University, corresponding author. —Prof.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2015

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Laboratory will explore ways to produce renewable plastic precursors and other substances from biomass with a recently announced $3.3-million million grant from the United States Department of Energy. Part of a $13.4-million

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2023

They come up with the questions, not us, which results in the kinds of robotics conversations you won’t hear anywhere else—uniquely informative, but also surprising and fun. We’re going to try to keep the episodes pretty short, maybe 20 minutes or so, so they’ll be easy to fit into your day. But we’ll get there!

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2017

The discovery was made by a joint research team led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa (Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University) and Professor Tetsuro Majima (Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University). Their findings were published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Acetic acid is toxic to fermenting microorganisms and negatively influences sugar fermentation and biofuel yields. cerevisiae.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. Dr. Sargent said he developed the idea from reading about the emergence of life on Earth, both in primary literature and popular science books.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The goal of the Awards is to celebrate innovators with new ideas or contributions to the field of sustainability that may not already have gained widespread attention. Milliron (University of Texas at Austin, USA): Resonate Award recipient for leveraging nanomaterials to improve the carbon reduction capabilities of smart windows.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2017

Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have synthesized a nanographene–Re (Rhenium) complex that functions as an efficient electrocatalyst and photocatalyst for the selective reduction of CO 2 to CO for subsequent conversion to fuels. The complex can selectively electrocatalyze CO 2 reduction to CO in tetrahydrofuran at −0.48

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But while the idea to produce a climate-friendly car is admirable, the vehicle Germany used for the project was quite questionable. The Obrist DE GmbH worked with the Technical University of Munich, the Technical University of Dresden, and the RWTH Aachen to create the vehicle. Speaking about the hybrid Model Y project, Prof.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In addition to the four-wheel model Toyota Concept-i exhibited at the 2017 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January this year ( earlier post ), Toyota has added a universal small mobility electric vehicle and a walking area mobility electric vehicle. These will be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show. CONCEPT i-RIDE.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video. Thank you.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 9, 2022

More than one million people have signed up to try out the free service since it was launched last week, and it has wowed users with its ability to engage in natural-sounding conversation, provide detailed answers to technical questions and even solve coding challenges. The conversation has been edited for length.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. People have done voice conversion for deep fakes, and that technology is pretty advanced. That wasn't going to be particularly useful for real-time conversation, their ultimate goal.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. Ribeiro, all from Purdue University. Fundamental discoveries from this project will uncover links between the physical and chemical structure of biomass to the conversion process.

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Cars That Think

MAY 6, 2023

Milner was working on neuropsychology at McGill University , in Montreal, although he had trained as an electrical engineer. Most of the time I had no idea what they were talking about.” How neurons might inhibit this effect were among his ideas that led to new insights at the workshop. This makes perfect sense.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

In working to elucidate the chemistry of hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) for the catalytic upgrading of pyrolytic bio-oil to fuel-grade products, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have discovered that water in the conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical reactions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Like other fuel cells, they enable direct electrochemical conversion of chemical fuels to electricity at high efficiency and with zero emissions. To bolster commercialization efforts, Haile and her team have ideas on how to approach this in a more cost-effective manner. Click to enlarge. Sihyuk Choi, Chris J.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Home speakers listen to our conversations to recognize our voices. Taking these two techniques, combining them well into this optimization problem, and then solving it—that’s really nice,” says Jiasi Chen , a computer scientist at the University of California, Riverside , who works on edge computing but was not involved in the work.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 10, 2022

In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. To begin with, we have updated Misty's conversational skills, focusing on both improved NLU capabilities and added more languages. So what is new, we hear you ask?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Methane cracking itself is not an entirely new idea: in the last two decades, many experiments in different institutions have been carried out that have proven its technical feasibility. But these past attempts were limited by issues such as carbon clogging and low conversion rates. The final design is a 1.2-meter-high

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Electric Auto Association

MAY 1, 2022

We used that backdrop to talk about some ideas we’ve had to improve and advance EV infrastructure and recharging solutions, and to end range anxiety.” Visitors had a chance to see EVs like the Rivian R1T, and to converse with exhibitors including representatives from the Air District and other nonprofit organizations.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2021

They ended with some promising ideas for the way forward. 15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021 : Every year, The AI Index drops a massive load of data into the conversation about AI. Ng spoke about an AI system developed at Stanford University that could spot pneumonia in chest x-rays, even outperforming radiologists.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

This can happen either after removal of most of the carbohydrates by hydrolysis and fermentation operations (top sequence) or by pretreatment before downstream carbohydrate conversion (bottom sequence). Ragauskas et al. courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Click to enlarge. —Ragauskas et al. Ragauskas, et al.,

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Boston Dynamics ] Fish in Washington are getting some help navigating through culverts under roads, thanks to a robot developed by University of Washington students Greg Joyce and Qishi Zhou. Dynamic sensing unlocks flexible and reliable data capture for improved site awareness, safety, and efficiency. SofTech-Rehab ].

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The group’s goal is to engage as many young professionals as possible in the conversation about how to get involved in the climate and sustainability sectors,” says Sajith Wijesuriya , CSTF chair. One webinar, for example, brought together representatives from the ETH Zurich university, the Clean Energy Ministerial forum, and Student Energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a catalyst comprising of black silicon nanowire supported ruthenium ( Ru/SiNW) for the photochemical and thermochemical reduction of gaseous CO 2 to methane (methanation) in the presence of hydrogen under solar-simulated light. Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Natural Gas'

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. And so the idea of datafication is simply to say that our lives are not just lived in the analog or physical world, but that actually they’re becoming digital. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2012

Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. —Clark University biologist David Hibbett, senior author. The idea is that just as the hands of a clock move at a defined rate around the dial, genes accumulate mutations at a roughly constant rate. Punctularia strigoso-zonata.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., He was a pioneer in the field of acoustics and provided the technical foundation for speech recognition, teleconferencing, MP3 music files, and the efficient digital transmission of human conversation. "I as vice president for research.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2022

Raibert: Part of the idea for the Institute is to combine the best of the academic world and the best of the industrial lab world. Universities have these very creative, forward looking people who frequently aren’t bothered by whatever the legacy solutions are. How open will the Institute be with the research that it’s doing?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Iowa State University (ISU) researchers have developed technologies to efficiently produce, recover and separate sugars from the fast pyrolysis of biomass. Brown and Iowa State researchers are presenting present their ideas and findings during tcbiomass2011 , the International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science in Chicago.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 6, 2022

Robert Sparrow, Monash University For consumer electronics, there’s a lot of activity around right-to-repair laws : Europe’s first such regulations took effect in 2021 , requiring manufacturers to make parts available to third-party repair shops for up to 10 years. And, as Spectrum discovered, medical regulators aren’t yet on the bandwagon.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s easy for a traveler to do the research for a standard trip, said Chris Anderson, a professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, “so they should look for a specialist for the type of tour they are looking for, say a bike trip in Ireland, who can really add value.” Here are some tips.

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Cars That Think

MAY 6, 2022

Working in collaboration with domestic appliances manufacturer Beko, researchers from the University of Cambridge trained their robot chef to assess the saltiness of a dish at different stages of the chewing process, imitating a similar process in humans. Swiss-Mile ] Thanks, Marko! Registration for the conference is free and now open.

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