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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Arlington, Texas Environmental Insights Explorer for Buildings, $750,000 Google, Mountian View, Calif. Ultra-Fast and - Thick Boriding of Geothermal Casing to Enhance Reliability, $150,000 Controlled Thermal Resources Inc.,

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. floor, marine spatial mapping).

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Sterling Camp Current Profession: Marine Assurance How will you add value to the EAA Board? As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. Sterling's career in marine transportation also provides him experience in transportation logistics. Let’s meet the candidates.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Sterling Camp Current Profession: Marine Assurance How will you add value to the EAA Board? As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. Sterling's career in marine transportation also provides him experience in transportation logistics. Let’s meet the candidates.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

A Google search didn't yield an answer to that question. In fact, it's rare enough that Google didn't autocomplete the word even with 15 of its 19 letters typed in. There's sort of an interesting backstory there that has to do with the fact that, you know, as mammalian systems were evolving, lead didn't exist in the environment, right?

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

That morning, a Maine Marine Patrol officer, Nathan Stillwell, set off in search of the missing vessel. Wayman contends that there are too many uncontrolled variables, and analysts must contend with so-called channel effects when comparing audio made in different environments and compressed into different formats.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged EVs

” But the thing is, we knew that they would need EV charging in these types of environments—brownfield sites, nuclear waste sites. So, the fact that we are able to deploy without digging for foundations or trenching or anything else means that we’re an ideal solution for those types of environments. So that’s fleet.

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