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Analysis finds air-quality justification for CNG vehicle conversion in developing cities, despite negative climate impact

Green Car Congress

An analysis by a team in Bangladesh found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. However, CNG conversion was apparently detrimental from a climate change perspective, as CH 4 emissions increased.

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Electra raises $85M to advance Low-Temperature Iron process; electrochemical refining at 60?C

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Conversion of iron ore into iron accounts for 90% of steelmaking emissions that may be eliminated using Electra’s process. The “Iron Ore Challenge”: Commercial iron ores with iron content of 62% or higher are projected to be in short supply by the early 2030s. —Electra CEO Sandeep Nijhawan.

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Do We Dare Use Generative AI for Mental Health?

Cars That Think

Demand for mental-health services has surged while the supply of clinicians has stagnated. And ChatGPT has helped millions of people experiment with conversational AI. With ChatGPT, conversations about mental health ended quickly and did not allow a user to engage in the psychological processes of change.

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Retro Styling Kit Appears for the Toyota Tacoma

The Truth About Cars

An outfit called Flex has apparently been slinging these types of conversions for some spell but is now expanding its presence into America through a location in San Diego. The new kit is made solely for the American market, which makes sense since the Tacoma can be in short supply in Japan compared to Jacksonville.

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Check out the ‘world’s first’ DC-to-DC solar-powered EV charger

Baua Electric

The TLCEV T1 solar EV charger can supply up to 12.5 Enteligent says its charger’s DC-to-DC conversion results in 20% energy savings and bypasses the EV’s internal conversion electronics, shortening charge time. The TLCEV T1 charger’s design integrates EV charging directly into solar canopies and carports. (It

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. Any person who controls an electrical grid is very cautious about what you sync to their grid, because you could disrupt the grid. The most important thing about this test is that we got Sandia to agree to take the power.

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Elon Musk prioritizes Tesla over Twitter, internal note reveals

Teslarati

Tesla’s stock dropped so low that Guinness World Records announced that Elon Musk set a record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history. He emphasized this during a Twitter Spaces conversation about Tesla when Gerber brought up Elon Musk’s being MIA at Tesla. “I There is latency in the supply chain.”.