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. Williams , Tom Kilburn , and Geoff Tootill developed and built the machine and its storage system—the Williams-Kilburn tube—at the University of Manchester. One such researcher was British engineer F.C.

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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.) ActaCell, Inc.

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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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. Glycos Biotechnologies , Inc. has closed a $5.0

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Its gas technologies extract water, mercury, sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide and other contaminants from raw natural gas. and Ortloff Engineers, Ltd. Honeywell’s UOP is a leader in natural gas treating technologies, which currently are used in QP’s LNG and gas processing facilities. UOP also has marketing alliances with Twister B.V.,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. Rather, the panels reach far beyond Earth’s atmosphere to tap the distant cold of deep space. Sound crazy?

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. Here are five emerging uses for HTS that could transform everyday life—if engineers can work out the kinks. The wire had become a “superconductor.”

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MAY 16, 2009

. $800 million will be used to expand DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, which provides government co-financing for new coal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power plants.

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Carbon Coal Mercury Arizona 150

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. When the future Nobel-winning chemist George Porter arrived as a Ph.D.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. E In a 2013 study, Sandberg and his colleague Stuart Armstrong suggested deploying automated self-replicating robots on Mercury to build a Dyson swarm.

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Cars That Think

JULY 6, 2022

Mark Kahan, on JWST’s product integrity team, recalls NASA’s engineering challenge as a call to arms for a worldwide team of thousands that set out to create one of the most ambitious scientific instruments in human history. Kahan—chief electro-optical systems engineer at Mountain View, Calif.–based Not so with the JWST.

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Universal Light Building All-Electric 104

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AUGUST 21, 2013

billion and has around 4,600 total staff, of which 3,000 are scientists and engineers. research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Working with University College London in the UK, we have been able to use synchrotron imaging to watch failures in real time which allows us to design solutions. This vital research will now continue at KULR to help battery manufacturers engineer new safety measures for battery systems.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

It developed turbocharged direct injection technology for diesel engines and has a wide range of TDI powertrains. After 40miles it reverts to a small four-cylinder internal combustion engine that creates electricity on-board to extend the Volt’s range to more than 300 miles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By See Chevy Volt for latest.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For more on plug-in hybrids and V2G, see CalCars Resources , University of Delaware V2G Research Center , and papers from a June 2005 conference in Seattle. Engineers note: hybrids need "power batteries," PHEVs need "energy batteries.") What do environmental groups think of PHEVs? So for now were sticking with PHEV.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

The potential and realized emissions of pollutants, including greenhouse gases and mercury, are also contentious. Funding for the research was provided by Environment Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Source: Kurek et al. Click to enlarge. —Kurek et al. Joshua Kurek, Jane L.

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