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Insight LiDAR develops first gesture detection sensing technology for autonomous vehicle LiDAR systems

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Insight LiDAR announced that its product, Insight 1600, is the first LiDAR with the combined high resolution and velocity detection to enable pedestrian gesture recognition. When humans drive, we’re constantly scanning the environment around us. —Vice President of Business Development Greg Smolka. —Chris Wood.

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Are Electric Cars Really Helping the Environment?

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Photo credit: mpohodzhay / Shutterstock.com A recent study by the Keck School of Medicine of USC provides new insights into the potential benefits of electric vehicle (EV) adoption. This study marks a significant step in understanding the impact of electric cars on public health and the environment.

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UQ, TUM team finds way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol more efficiently

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University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. This has led to much higher yields of isobutanol with fewer unwanted side products.

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Los Alamos-led study finds how to improve natural gas production in shale; hydrocarbon transport within nanopores

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Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal. Our study yielded new insights into the fundamental mechanisms governing hydrocarbon transport within shale nanopores. These insights help optimize strategies to boost natural gas production as well as better understand fluid mechanics.

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LowCVP LCA study finds matching battery size with vehicle use is crucial for the environment

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The environmental impacts associated with the production phase, in particular, for road vehicles will become increasingly important in the context of the full life cycle and, therefore, the focus of more policy attention as governments around the world strive to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets. Source: Ricardo, LowCVP.

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PNNL team presents new insight into H2 production by cyanobacterium Cyanothece

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Using genome-scale transcript and protein profiling, the team study presented and tested a new hypothesis on the metabolic relationship between oxygenic photosynthesis and nitrogenase-mediated H 2 production in Cyanothece 51142. This organism can make lots of hydrogen, very fast; it’s a viable catalyst for hydrogen production.

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Plug selected by NFE for 120 MW green hydrogen plant on Gulf Coast

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Expected to be one of the largest of its kind in North America, the facility will leverage Plug’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis technology and enable the production of more than 50 tons per day (TPD) of green hydrogen. (NFE) for a 120 MW industrial-scale green hydrogen plant near Beaumont, Texas.

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