Cars That Think
JANUARY 20, 2024
Researchers are considering three different types: a lead-cooled fast reactor, a uranium-fueled, helium-gas-cooled reactor, and a molten-salt-cooled reactor, shown here [below, at bottom]. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Two-tank molten salt is currently the preferred state-of-the-art thermal energy storage for solar thermal power plants. Tags: ARPA-E Motors Nanotech. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA): Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids. This project will receive $2.4 million in funding.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Solid oxide solid acid Phosphoric acid molten carbonate Polymer electrolyte membrane. Mirrors Molten salts. Catalysts cathodes anodes electrolytes. Solar photvoltaics. Thin films. Concentrated solar power. Trough system Power tower system Dish engine system. Wind turbines. Direct drive. Permanent magnets. Hydropower.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2013
Honda Motor Co., Now, by applying molten salt electrolysis to this oxide, Honda has succeeded in extracting metallized rare earth that can be used directly as negative-electrode materials for nickel-metal hydride batteries. Honda’s process for recycling NiMH batteries. The new portion of the process is outlined in red.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. The motor drives a piston that compresses air, which gets hot as it’s compressed.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 30, 2013
A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Motors, led by ORNL researcher Dr. Jun Qu, has developed a new group of ionic liquids as lubricant additives that could help improve the energy efficiency of cars and trucks. Ionic liquids are “room temperature molten salts”, composed of cations & anions, instead of neutral molecules.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 21, 2013
Each system comprises electronic components that can be used with a variety of batteries and motors and installed on conventional medium- and heavy-duty chassis, modifying them into all-electric battery operated vehicles that have no tailpipe emissions. Motiv Power Systems, Inc. Electricity: Negawatt Consulting, Inc.
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