Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

We identify existing knowledge gaps but also conclude that current knowledge is sufficient to inform policies that will ensure environmental benefits. Looking forward, however, the team calls for more research on designing landscapes to provide the optimal suite of energy, climate and environmental benefits.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 2, 2024

In the past, there was a push to sell all-season tires which performed at kinda-sorta acceptable levels in a variety of conditions but didn’t truly excel in any particular environment. It is a true 3-season tire designed for both dry and wet conditions and to give you improved handling and exceptional ride comfort.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2023

And engineers have much to gain from experimenting with them and incorporating them into their design process. For Aston Martin’s DBR22 concept car, designers relied on AI that’s integrated into Divergent Technologies ’ digital 3D software to optimize the shape and layout of the rear subframe components. I decided to give it a try.

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Aston Martin Design Engine Concept 131

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2021

of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy. Design for sustainability implies that life cycle parameters need to be treated as objective functions in plant optimisation. According to the IEA, less than 0.1% doi: 10.1039/D1EE01288F.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2023

Clean hydrogen production for domestic demand has the potential to scale from If water electrolysis dominates as the production method, up to 200 GW of new renewable energy sources would be needed by 2030 to support clean hydrogen production. DOE also encourages direct public input. Additional reports will be added in the coming months.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

The TRI program collects information on certain toxic chemical releases to the air, water and land, as well as information on waste management and pollution prevention activities by facilities across the country. billion pounds of toxic chemicals were disposed of or released into the environment (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

High / Very High Temperature Reactors (HTGRs / VHTRs) are primarily dedicated to the generation of electricity and/or high temperature heat—with hydrogen, being extracted from water by using thermo-chemical, electro-chemical or hybrid processes. EDF proposes the Hartlepool Heat Hub as a host site for the UK’s first HTGR demonstration.

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Gas Japan Hydrogen Gas-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

These GEMINA teams are working to develop tools for the advanced reactors of tomorrow to improve operations and lower maintenance costs by designing more autonomous, and efficient processes. Advanced reactors must be designed to be financially competitive with fossil fuel power plants to gain a foothold in future energy markets.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2024

Strengthening AI procurement practices The IEEE P3119 draft standard is designed to help strengthen AI procurement approaches, using due diligence to ensure that agencies are critically evaluating the AI services and tools they acquire. They are isolated environments where new concepts and simulations can be tested. Likewise, the U.K.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

TdVib designs and manufactures technology-driven, high-value systems based on electromagnetics, including magnetostrictive smart materials Terfenol-D and Galfenol. Ikenna Nlebedim, the lead researcher on the recycling project, explained that big companies shred items such as computer hard drives to protect the information on them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

SEED awards will support research projects that establish potential new areas for technology development and provide ARPA-E with information that could lead to new ARPA-E focused funding programs. Improved Nodule Collector Design To Mitigate Sediment Plumes. Deep Reach Technology. Phoenix Tailings.

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Phoenix Lithium Ion Water Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. Supporting Information. —Liu et al.

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Solar Water Hybrid CO2 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

design addresses. Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent released an integrated monitoring plan for the oil sands region. The final plan includes components for monitoring air quality, biodiversity, and the next phase of water quality monitoring in the oil sands region. Click to enlarge. being developed sustainably.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

They are commonly used for electricity, gas, or water monitoring. Utility companies can collect this information without sending personnel to physically read the meters, making the process more efficient. This allows utilities to send information to the meter and receive data from it.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

To create a sustainable environment, we need to contain air pollution. The microbes and minerals in soil systems regulate water, cycle nutrients, filter pollutants, physically support plants, and sequester greenhouse gasses. IoT food container tags can reduce food and water waste. Deforestation is contributing to climate change.

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Cars That Think

JULY 12, 2023

It is a collaborative mobile robot designed specifically for surveillance and security tasks. With its advanced features and cutting-edge technology, RB-WATCHER is set to revolutionize the way we approach surveillance in various environments. m/s allows for swift and efficient coverage of designated areas.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Anastas, appointed to the EPA by President Obama, is known widely as the “Father of Green Chemistry” for his groundbreaking work on the design and manufacture of chemicals that are nonhazardous and environmentally benign. John Heinz chair in Chemistry for the Environment and Directs the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering.

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EPA Insight 2010 Environment 268

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The program is designed to provide an improved understanding of the long-term cumulative effects of oil sands development. The monitoring of the snowpack and acid sensitive lakes is designed to assess the linkages between atmospheric deposition and impacts on water quality. Water quantity/quality. Wildlife toxicology.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Water 274

Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

That process creates a corrosive environment when the gases react to the ambient atmosphere. One of the challenges of EV battery design is that each one has different needs to address. Sometimes, CCT involves immersing the materials in water. That information will help them make informed choices.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2020

ARPA-E recently added five new topics to the “Solicitation on Topics Informing New Program Areas,” a funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0001953 ) that enables ARPA-E to investigate potential new program areas. The program is designed to support early stage, transformative energy technologies. million; 1-5 awards.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. Design tools will be used to create optimal system-level and subsystem-level designs.

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El Paso Engine Power Powered 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

However, the research team quickly learned that it was difficult to determine when to travel to field sites to collect flood water samples. While the general design of SONYC and FloodNet sensor networks build upon the same basic concept of sensor networks, they are based on two different types of sensor technologies.

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Pollution New York City New York Water 93

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

ITS systems designed for cars cannot simply be transferred to motorcycles. Due to the limited space available, electronic systems have to be smaller and be resilient to water, dust and vibration. Since motorcycles exhibit different driving dynamics, software development and algorithms need to consider special requirements.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Selected projects will be intended to support program goals to determine the (1) likelihood of methane hydrates as a potential energy resource and (2) their role in the natural environment. The volume of methane held in methane hydrate deposits worldwide is immense. Earlier post.). Elbert and I?nik

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Alaska Gas Climate Insight 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

water management and treatment for power plant and CO 2 storage operations. will partner with GE Global Research, EPRI, Southern Company, American Electric Power and FirstEnergy to design and test a high temperature nickel-based superalloy thick-walled header for cycling and flexible plant operation in new and existing plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2014

The team determined the physical and chemical characteristics of these additives using publicly available chemical information databases. Fracking involves injecting water with a mix of chemical additives into rock formations deep underground to promote the release of oil and gas. —William Stringfellow.

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Environment Universal Waste Gas 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Technical staff at Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, supported by the research team at the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors ( CASL ), used the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications core simulator (VERA-CS) to analyze its AP1000 advanced pressurized water reactor (PWR).

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Water Design Industrial Industry 220

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Solidia’s innovative technology has the potential to lower emissions in concrete production by up to 70% and water consumption by up to 80%. A project that aims to design a full scale gas power plant with carbon capture and storage, including industrial CO 2 sequestration capability.

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Gas Power Powered Climate 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A team at University College London (UCL) has used a lung-inspired approach to designing flow fields to improve significantly the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Current PEM fuel cell designs typically use serpentine flow fields to transport species to and from the membrane electrode assembly. Background.

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Fuel Polymer London Design 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The primary challenge is to reduce capital and operating cost of macroalgae cultivation dramatically, while significantly increasing the range of deployment by expanding into more exposed, off-shore environments. ARPA-E is interested in new designs and approaches to macroalgae cultivation and production with integrated harvesting solutions.

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Mariner Fuel Conversion 2016 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

The information gathered will aid agencies in tracking the health of children and help with protective services. The vehicles will be equipped with sensors and Ford’s OpenXC technology to collect data designed to make Riders for Health work more efficiently. Earlier post.). Ford will also spend $2.1 Earlier post.).

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South Africa Africa Ford Nigeria 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2017

Project goals were to demonstrate the use of the generator in the maritime environment, identify areas requiring additional research and development, analyze the business case, and address regulatory and other market barriers. A recent project demonstrated a 100 kW fuel cell generator with 72 kg of hydrogen storage for marine applications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced nearly $5 million in funding across seven research projects designed to increase the understanding of methane hydrates. In May 2012, the Energy Department, alongside its Japanese partners, announced a successful field trial of methane hydrate production technologies on Alaska’s North Slope.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

to drill up to four shallow water exploration wells in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea beginning in July 2012. These standards address issues ranging from well design and workplace safety, to requiring that operators demonstrate that they are prepared to deal with the potential for a blowout and worst-case discharge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. DOE funding: $741,194 Non-DOE: $188,333 Total: $929,527. University of Illinois.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

A comprehensive environmental field study to gather information on air contaminants in the Wood Buffalo region in northeast Alberta, Canada (home to major oil sands projects) will occur from 12 August to mid-September 2013. Earlier post.).

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