Remove Conversion Remove Legal Remove Statistics Remove Universal
article thumbnail

Study: expanding Brazilian sugarcane for ethanol could reduce global CO2 emissions by up to 5.6%

Green Car Congress

Vastly expanding sugarcane production in Brazil for conversion to ethanol could reduce current global CO 2 emissions by as much as 5.6%, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from the University of Illinois. The proposed expansion of sugarcane production is within the area that can be legally converted.

Brazil 150
article thumbnail

China researchers hydrotreat waste engine oil and scrap tire oil blend to produce diesel- and jet-range fuel

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Henan Polytechnic University in China have hydrotreated the oil derived from hydrothermal liquefaction of scrap tires (STO) with waste engine oil (WEO) using five different activated carbon-supported noble metal catalysts—Pd/C, Pt/C, Ru/C, Ir/C, and Rh/C—for the production of liquid fuels.

Oil 220
article thumbnail

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Cars That Think

Aside from a few brief remarks later, we leave it lawyers to reflect on how such materials might be treated in full legal context. legal questions (would these outputs count as copyright infringement?), Some of this may come out in legal discovery, of course.) We suspect that at least some has not been licensed.

New York 145
article thumbnail

Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

For example, fuel economy statistics and a graphic display of the electric range is shown on the navigation map. Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements.

Audi 150
article thumbnail

When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. Some—like the burlesque artist Ann Corio , whose phone conversations were recorded in a dragnet search for incriminating information on prominent midtown residents—were the targets of blackmail.