Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

A selective extraction process is planned that will recover these raw materials from incinerated waste. Currently, such materials are lost when the electronic parts that contain them are thrown away with household waste. The new process is designed to keep these valuable high-tech metals in the cycle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

A team of Virginia Tech researchers, led by Dr. Y.H. To liberate the hydrogen, Virginia Tech scientists separated a number of enzymes from their native microorganisms to create a customized enzyme cocktail that does not occur in nature. Flow of the new process; enzymes are in red. Credit: Martín del Campo et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to demonstrate a novel process for the extraction of REEs from coal using plasma. The collaborators researched using low-temperature plasma to pretreat coal-based materials resourced from West Kentucky No.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

A full-scale test of advanced hyperbaric centrifuge technology at a Jim Walter Resources Inc. coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. Virginia Tech’s Center for Advanced Separation Technologies (CAST) successfully tested its prototype technology at a variety of coal-cleaning plants.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Earlier post.)The Harvard University. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

The first session of the workshop was on “EPR Regime in Used Oil & Plastic Waste Management. Shailendra Gokhale, Founder and Director of Rosefield Energy Tech Pvt Ltd, delved into the “Status, Challenges, Opportunities and Way forward” in this domain. There were thematic presentations by industry experts.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

I am sure that with the concept car and the technology it contains, we will convince loyal, but also tech-forerunner clients, that the new generation of Lamborghini vehicles will open a new chapter in terms of technology, performance, digitalization and driving dynamics. —Rouven Mohr Sustainable materials. 100 percent merino wool.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

computational cost of advanced AI applications that use deep-learning models increased by 300,000 times, causing a significant rise in electric power consumption and resource utilization. The wasteful approach of throwing more computing power at a problem to get better results has been dubbed red AI. Electronics company.

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JULY 24, 2015

A team led by researchers at Georgia Tech has developed a new fabrication technique to produce platinum-based hollow nanocages with ultra-thin walls that could significantly reduce the amount of the costly metal needed to provide catalytic activity. The Georgia Tech-led team took that last approach. —Zhang et al.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. This is concerning, as it uses food resources to produce fuel. Syntec Biofuel Inc.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Other technical partners are Railpower Tech LLC, Ballard Power Systems, Optifuel Systems LLC, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, Valley Vision, Velocity Strategies, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. Sierra Northern Railway is the freight division of privately-owned, Sierra Railroad Company.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Turning waste and old plastic into hydrogen Part of that is due to come from a megawatt-scale PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolyzer for green hydrogen. But the company is also focusing on a resource-circulation approach, including Waste-to-Hydrogen and Plastic-to-Hydrogen. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

This center aims to create more than 300 new high-tech manufacturing jobs, and more than 500 operations jobs by 2025. The consortium will collaborate with universities such as U of T, Ontario Tech and Waterloo to address some of their material development and technology improvement requirements and characterization. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In a paper in the journal ChemSusChem , a team from the VU University Amsterdam suggests that with increasing demand from green and high-tech applications, the supply of rare earth elements (REEs) is likely to be disrupted (the degree of disruption depends on the REE) in the near future. —de Boer and Lammertsma. de Boer, M.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, to extract ever more minerals by mining and dispose of the waste in landfills, would be to continue the practices that got the world into its current environmental mess. Nth Cycle works with battery recyclers and miners to recover production-grade critical minerals from separated electronic waste and low-grade mine tailings.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2013

The first upstream component accounts for indirect energy input for the production and distribution of power generation fuel and the construction, maintenance, decommissioning, and waste disposal of the power plant. The second upstream efficiency component is the electric power plant’s generation efficiency (η pp ). Thomas, and Marilyn A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2018

Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste. Active coal mines, and in many cases state agencies, are required to treat the waste, which in turn, yields solids that are enriched in rare earth elements. Two-step process.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. It’s designed for on-demand production to reduce waste from unsold inventory. Instead, many components lock into place. Dell isn’t alone in its focus on sustainability.

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MARCH 13, 2016

In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium. Waste heat recovery. Funding available is $12.5 million, and will support the US Consortium. The US consortium will pursue five topics; responsive application will address all five. Alternative fuel combustion.

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JULY 15, 2011

However, notes Virginia Tech Prof. Zhang proposes using a simple biomass-to-wheel (BTW) energy efficiency analysis to help make a more informed decision for how to utilize (limited) biomass resources more efficiently. vehicle service, taxes, subsidies, infrastructure costs for repairing and rebuilding, resource availability, etc.),

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

Ford noted that while great strides have been made with green technology, the world faces the pressures of a growing global population and the new challenge of global gridlock—the potential that the world will face a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources. Earlier post.). —Bill Ford. —Bill Ford.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. the technology reduced the moisture to a level that the waste coal can now be marketed commercially. as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These materials, treated through a recycling process, reduce the amount of resources used and ensure a closed, efficient and sustainable material loop. The decorative inlay above the display, called the Tech Layer, is available with a new anthracite-colored technical material that’s partially composed of recycled PET bottles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Dorsan uses proprietary technology to create fungal-based biocatalysts that can convert non-food biomass and waste streams into diesel fuel and a variety of food and fragrance products. Dorsan Biofuels , Inc., —ATI-Clean Energy co-director Mitch Jacobson.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Although plasma reactors can be used directly for gasification for the production of clean syngas—and ECP has developed its own such plasma gasification system, SynGen—for this application ECP is suggesting a different approach assisted by its GlidArc low-tech plasma: Gasification of any feed into as-dirty-as-possible producer gas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

The European Commission (EC) unveiled two draft laws in response to the US subsidies that the Commission fears are luring European clean-tech companies to North America. Member States will also have to develop national programs for exploring geological resources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2017

—Raheem Beyah, Georgia Tech. Beyond detecting malicious activity or quality problems, the technique could stop inadvertent production problems, reducing materials waste. Malicious software installed in the printer or control computer could compromise the production process.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2012

These were grouped into practical ‘technology packages’ for each vehicle type, in order that their respective costs, benefits and investment payback periods could be calculated. GB Rail Diesel Powertrain Efficiency Improvements.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The consequences of EV batteries are multifold: Makers use resource-intensive materials to produce them. Reduce battery waste. Ample can install the technology, but if consumers don’t know how to choose the kilowatt sizes they need, people will resist adopting the tech. The startup also has to propose its solution to auomakers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2014

Subsurface reservoirs account for more than 80% of US primary energy, and also offer potential for the storage of energy, CO 2 , and nuclear waste. DOE established the SubTER Tech Team to address crosscutting grand challenges associated with the use of the subsurface for energy extraction and storage purposes.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For more than two decades I have been an independent consultant for the high-tech and medical-devices industries, for established high-profile clients as well as fledgling startups. Is it bloated, full of boilerplate and waste—the stuff you do solely because that was the way you always did it? Does it still make sense?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. GRIDSMART considers the project’s results to foreshadow promising new services for their customers. Karnowski, R. Eicholtz, J. Price, and T.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Steve Jobs , a tireless tech visionary, an extraordinary innovator, and the cofounder of Apple. Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. Most tech companies specialized in either hardware or software, but Jobs pursued both. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES. Pixar Animation Studios.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The projects include a recycling center to reduce plastic waste at Ankole Institute, in southwestern Uganda. In Panama, engineering students from Universidad Tecnológica de Panama ’s electrical engineering and computer science departments used their tech know-how to make the university’s campus more accessible for people with disabilities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

Natural gas is considered renewable when it is produced from sources of biogas such as organic waste or wastewater. Promote investments in natural gas fuelling stations at customers’ facilities; and support the production of renewable natural gas resources through increased demand. —Climate Leadership Plan.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 3, 2023

It’s also a lot less wasteful to electrify an old clunker and give it years and years of additional use rather than buying a brand-new EV, which requires the extraction and use of precious resources and lots of new carbon emissions to build and ship out.

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