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JANUARY 22, 2012

Under the emerging J2954 guidelines, communications for wireless charging will use DSRC. The SAE Taskforce on wireless charging and positioning of electric vehicles (SAE J2954) ( earlier post ) is progressing, and is slated to have a final draft of the guideline this year, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers, International (SAE).

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Livent obtains lithium from a brine resource in northern Argentina, using a proprietary method that is particularly sustainable. Lithium water study in cooperation with University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Massachusetts Amherst. The company is also involved in local educational programs and infrastructure measures.

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The taskforce, which launched in October 2010 and began meeting in November 2010, has a goal of delivering the first SAE guideline by end of 2011 for publishing in 2012. SAE has launched a taskforce ( SAE J2954 ) on the “Wireless Charging of Electric and Plug-in Electric Vehicles”—i.e. EVs and PHEVs.

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The study also found current water treatment technology used for treating water produced from coal seam gas wells is effective in removing hydraulic fracturing chemicals and naturally occurring (geogenic) chemicals to within relevant water quality guidelines. Source: CSIRO.

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MARCH 12, 2019

—Co-author Professor Thomas Münzel, of the Department of Cardiology of the University Medical Centre Mainz. times higher than the WHO guideline of 10 ?g/m g/m 3 should be adjusted downwards to the WHO guideline of 10 ?g/m Indeed, new evidence may lead to a further lowering of the WHO guideline in the near future.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Led by Joshua Apte in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, the team used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study to measure PM 2.5 Lower panel b: Gains in life expectancy that could be reached by meeting World Health Organization guidelines for air quality around the world. 8b00360.

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JUNE 22, 2020

A team of Brown University researchers has used reduced graphene oxide (rGO) to enhance the toughness of an oxide-based solid-state lithium-ion conductor. Based on these results, an analytical framework is developed to provide guidelines for the design of ultra-tough solid electrolytes using 2D materials. —Athanasiou et al.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

New research from a team at the University of Alberta, Canada, finds that Alberta’s oilsands industry is releasing more pollutants into the Athabasca River, its tributaries and its watershed than previously estimated. An open access article on their study was published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

A study led by environmental health scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health examined the release of vapors from gasoline station vent pipes, and found benzene emissions were 10 times higher than estimates used in setback regulations that determine how close schools, playgrounds, and parks can be to the facilities.

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JULY 4, 2021

Hu noted that a switch from thresholds to guidelines or alternative requirements give companies more room to operate ethically. The main issue here is that the EU is using a straightforward cutoff standard. The authors urge policymakers and managers across industries to take note of their study. —Hu et al.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Penner of the University of California-Irvine, has developed an ultra-fast hydrogen sensor based on a palladium (Pd) nanowire array coated with a metal-organic framework (MOF) that can detect hydrogen gas levels under 1% in less than seven seconds. This study was carried out by Ph.D. Won-Tae Koo, Shaopeng Qiao, Alana F. 7b04529.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As approximately 70% of the University of California, Riverside’s undergraduate population commutes, the objective of this study was to use silicone wristbands to monitor personal exposure to OPEs and determine if exposure was associated with commute time in a subset of these students. —David Volz. Hammel, Heather M. Stapleton, David C.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

A team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, and Georgia Tech has developed a a wave-energy-driven electrochemical CO 2 reduction system that converts ocean wave energy to chemical energy in the form of formic acid, a liquid fuel. —Leung et al.

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University research groups are also launching tiny, standardized cube satellites (CubeSats) into LEO for research and demonstration purposes. They have less resources for computing, processing, and also memory.” Satellites are becoming smaller. Governments should push for standards in that area relying on cryptography.”

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Green Software Resources The Green Software Foundation offers a catalog of green software patterns for AI, the cloud, and the Web. The draft guidelines also include impact and effort ratings to give software engineers an idea of the level of difficulty in terms of implementation and the level of impact in terms of sustainability.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Babies in strollers can be exposed to up to ~60% higher average concentrations of pollution than their parents, causing potential damage to their frontal lobe and impacting on their cognitive abilities and brain development, according to a study by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). Environment International 120, 262-278.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

A team from the University of Palermo and ICAR has developed an electric kinetic energy recovery system (e-KERS) for internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEVs) based on the use of a supercapacitor as energy storage, interfaced to a brushless machine through a power converter. Resources. Drivetrain layout of the vehicle with KERS.

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MAY 8, 2019

Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf report on a new class of electrocatalysts that is theoretically suitable for universal use. The complexity of the alloy is reflected in the research results, and many analyses will be necessary before one can assess its actual potential.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Seven billion people, more than 95% of the world’s population, lived in areas exceeding the WHO Guideline for healthy air in 2016, according to a new global study. concentrations to the WHO Air Quality Guideline. Fifty-eight percent lived in areas with PM 2.5 concentrations above above the WHO Interim Target 1 (IT-1, 35 ?g/m

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Now, in a new open-access study published in the journal Human Factors , University of Southampton Alexander Eriksson and Neville Stanton report that under noncritical conditions, drivers needed 1.9 However, there has been little investigation into more frequent scenarios for control transitions—such as exiting from a highway.

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The EPA can encourage these agencies to follow the lead of states like Minnesota, which is already releasing guidelines for E-85 remediation. There is no scientific consensus on the climate friendly nature of US produced corn-based ethanol, and it should not be credited with reducing GHGs when compared to the burning of traditional gasoline.

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BP Biofuels and Texas AgriLife Research, part of The Texas A&M University System, have signed a three-year agreement to develop and commercialize cellulosic feedstocks for the production of advanced biofuels.

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JULY 14, 2014

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon-based anodes will perform. Wood (2014) “Assessing Carbon-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Universal Description of Charge-Transfer Binding,” Phys. Yuanyue Liu, Y.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Researchers at Northwestern University, with a colleague from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have developed a new computational design framework that can pinpoint optimal materials with which to coat the cathode in lithium-ion batteries. Wolverton said this design strategy extends beyond developing better batteries.

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Professors Jos Lelieveld and Thomas Münzel, of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Department of Cardiology of the University Medical Center Mainz in Mainz, Germany, who led the research, say the findings suggest the world is facing an air pollution “pandemic”. —Professor Thomas Münzel.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

In order to establish such quality guidelines, this paper first identifies a number of critical weld attributes that determine the quality of welds by experimentally characterizing the weld formation over time using copper-to-copper welding as an example. Resources. The Cadillac ELR is built at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

At the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), significant efforts have been devoted towards formulating surrogates and developing combustion kinetics of gasolines with varying compositions and octane numbers. … Lovisotto, L., Issayev, G., Sarathy, M.S., & Farooq, A.

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MAY 30, 2017

A team a the University of Warwick has fully characterized the thermal behavior of a large-format 20 Ah lithium iron phosphate pouch cell over a wide range of ambient temperatures and C rates during both charging and discharging. —Grandjean et al. 2017.05.016.

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MAY 22, 2018

However, despite current clinical practice guidelines recommending physical activity, the benefits of active travel on mortality and morbidity are still unclear. Thus, activity as part of a journey—such as the commute or for transport in general—can offer a comparatively easy way to integrate exercise into daily life.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

A new international study led by McGill University (Canada) Professor Jill Baumgartner suggests that black carbon may also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. The team’s findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS). —Baumgartner et al. 1317176111.

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APRIL 20, 2020

Researchers from Texas A&M University, in collaboration with scientists in the Air Force Research Laboratory, have developed guidelines that allow 3D printing of martensitic steels into very sturdy, defect-free objects of nearly any shape. A paper on their work is published in the journal Acta Materialia. Ibrahim Karaman.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Conducted by University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), the Safety Pilot Model Deployment is a first-of-its-kind test of connected vehicle technology in the real world. Prioritization of where the USDOT might best apply its limited resources to support standards development will be necessary.

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They include an automatic soil-monitoring and irrigation system, remote-education resources for underserved communities, and pandemic-related technologies. ITU facilitates focus groups in radio communications, standards development, and telecommunications development to establish guidelines and standards.

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program; and create the DriveElectricMN.org website as an online resource. planning guidelines to support alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure. University, North. University of Central. model codes, ordinances, purchasing guidelines and incentives; conduct. Bay Area Air Quality. Management District.

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. of resources from a variety of sources. These guidelines will be reviewed every five years to ensure environmental integrity. as possible, but not later than 2015. Adaptation. Details of this will be taken.

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MAY 9, 2011

The steam reforming of oxygenate fuels produced via biomass fermentation, fast pyrolysis, and hydrolysis is a feasible renewable route for hydrogen production, according to a new study by a team from the South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China) published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Oxygenate fuels, Li et al.

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Houston have tuned the catalytic activity of dealloyed bimetallic nanoparticles to produce a more reactive form of platinum that could be used to make less expensive, more efficient fuel cells. Strasser et al.

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