This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. Back in 2000, a defense authorization bill had stipulated that one-third of the U.S. Stanford team leader Sebastian Thrun holds a $2 million check, the prize for winning the 2005 Grand Challenge.
trillion by 2000, 2.3 Health care costs grew at three times the rate of inflation from 1990 to 2000 alone, surpassing 13 percent of GDP. The scale, complexity, and extremely short time frame for attempting to transform the totality of the health care environment demanded a robust system of systems engineering approach.
Researchers at Korea University have developed high-performance, textile-based electrodes for watersplitting (WSE); the non-noblemetal-based electrodes can generate a large amount of hydrogen with low overpotentials and high operational stability. 2 and a low cell voltage of 1.70 doi: 10.1039/d2ee01510b.
The study reveals that between 2000 and 2010, the population of East-Southeast Asia grew by 231 million people; if this were the population of a single country, it would be the fifth most populous country in the world. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. Resources.
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Sea by 43,000 times (i.e., to 9013.43 ppm) with a nominal Li/Mg selectivity >45 million. doi: 10.1039/D1EE00354B.
A team from the University of Delaware and the University of Denver has created a new global simulation model to predict how urban land will change over the next 100 years under different social and economic conditions. million km 2 in 2000). million km 2 in 2000). m 2 in 2000 to 246?m million to 3.6 million to 3.6
A study of emissions from gasoline direct injection (GDI) vehicles in an urban near-road environment in Toronto over a wide range of weather conditions (February 2014 to January 2015) found that—other than for NO x and CO—the GDI engines had elevated emissions compared to the Toronto fleet.
1994) and Seel and Dahn (2000), along with many others. The Power Japan Plus cell is based on the work of Professor Tatsumi Ishihara at Kyushu University in Japan; Power Japan Plus will continue developing the dual carbon battery technology in partnership with Prof. Ishihara and the university. Energy Environ. Carlin, R.
The researchers say this highlights the long-term persistence of contaminants introduced by human activities in the environment. In the 1980s, annual average airborne lead concentrations in central London dropped from 500-600 ng/m 3 of air to around 300 ng/m 3 , before dropping further to around 20 ng/m 3 in 2000. Tremper, Dominik J.
Over the past year the Dynamics and Control group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) (The Netherlands) has developed a battery electric research vehicle based on a VW Lupo 3L 1.2 This results in a very flexible, programmable environment allowing different types of research to be executed. Click to enlarge.
A team from Zhejiang A&F University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), and Stanford University have developed a binder-free, flexible, and free-standing electrode comprising an unprecedented 92% silicon content for Li-ion batteries. The structure shows an ultrahigh electrode-specific capacity of 2700 mAh g ?1
each year between 2000 and 2010—three times the rate of increase during the 1990s. Global CO 2 emissions since 2000 are tracking the high end of the projections used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which far exceed two degrees warming by 2100. On average, fossil fuel emissions have risen by 3.1%
The collaborative study between government, non-government, university and community partners will collect both airborne and ground-based measurements to determine how air pollutants are transformed and transported across the landscape. Earlier post.).
Researchers at the University of Michigan have used high-speed imaging of diesel injection spray to provide insights into transient fuel spray behavior and to guide the development of the next generation of spray theory and models. Fuel was injected into a room temperature, nitrogen environment at chamber densities of 17.5,
Emission rates of BC in the year 2000 by region, indicating major source categories in each region. Total global emissions of black carbon using bottom-up inventory methods are 7500 Gg yr -1 in the year 2000 with an uncertainty range of 2000 to 29000. Source: Bond et al. Click to enlarge. W m -2 (+0.17 W m -2 range).
Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science at University of Leicester. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Owen Cooper.
Sheehan has spent nearly two decades working on biofuels, including coordinating biofuel research at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and consulting to clients in biotechnology and renewable energy under the auspices of SheehanBoyce, LLC. an algae startup company in Menlo Park, Calif. John Sheehan.
Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid (flow) battery for large-scale energy storage, with lithium polysulfide (Li 2 S 8 ) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode. Energy Environ.
A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 Black carbon has two deleterious effects on the environment. After 2000, BC emissions from this sector in China remained roughly stable, but the increase in other developing countries was accelerated.
Modelica has been developed by the (non-profit) Modelica Association since 1996 and has been in use in industry since 2000. The power and flexibility of Modelica not only enables us to deliver rapid innovation to our clients, but empowers them to implement their own intellectual property in the IGNITE environment.
3M’s battery laboratory collaborated with Professor Jeff Dahn and students at Dalhousie University on the NMC technology. Johnson Matthey is well-positioned to supply lithium ion battery customers in this dynamic environment. —Christian Milker, global business manager of 3M’s Electronics Materials Solutions Division.
Steel’s strength has multiplied by almost 10 times over the past 20 years, from 270 to 2000 MPa tensile strength. However, each material used in vehicle production contributes to lightweighting and improves fuel economy, but each does so at a different cost to the manufacturer—and to the environment.
Henry Chair, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa and the Editor of the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology is calling on Gulf researchers to consider submitting their scientific articles about the oil spill to ES&T. Schnoor (2010) The Gulf Oil Spill Environ.
While natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions when it is substituted for higher-emission energy sources, abundant shale gas is not likely to substantially alter total emissions without policies targeted at greenhouse gas reduction, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University.
Reviewers included Dr. Martin Patel of Utrecht University and Michael Levy of the American Chemistry Council. bushels per acre, which represents a 12% increase over the data (1998-2000 average) used in the current US LCI database; Each bushel of soybeans harvested reduces greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalents) by 32.6
A team from the University of California, Berkeley concludes that reducing demand for light-duty vehicle (LDV) travel will likely be essential to meeting the international greenhouse gas emission and climate targets for the year 2050. persons per vehicle, typical of European averages in 2000. Full explanation at Sager et al.
Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.
times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Energy Environ. They noted that an EBR of 1.2
Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). —G.K.
Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University. Ube Network for Climate Change Actions.
Researchers from the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at the Arctic University of Norway have discovered a growing Arctic abiotic methane- and methane hydrate–charged sediment drift on oceanic crust in the deep Fram Strait of the Arctic Ocean. —Joel Johnson.
Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) are proposing a new process for producing synfuel from biomass using concentrating solar energy as its main energy source. Ten percent of carbon is oxidized and released to the environment. Schema of synfuel synthesis through solar-driven biomass gasification.
Despite these benefits, particulates and NO x emitted from diesel engines are of major concern for the environment. bar BMEP at 2000 rpm. Diesel engines are widely used owing to their high thermal efficiency and low fuel consumption. bar BMEP and 5.0
Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. Policy needs to evolve in order to create a favorable environment for the deployment of these solutions. Furthermore, road freight activity is set to more than double from 2015 to 2050.
Semi-structured controlled environments, lots of repetitive tasks, and humans that would almost universally rather be somewhere else. One of the big parts of being able to do this is the ability to localize in very large, unstructured environments where things are constantly changing without having to rely on external infrastructure.
In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.
Ideal for demanding cryogenic environments, two-part EP29LPSP can withstand temperatures as low as 4K and can resist cryogenic shock when, for instance, it is cooled from room temperature to cryogenic temperatures within a 5-10 minute window. 00, WP1995, Revision 0, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 19 Mar. 5 Xu, Jingke.
This key milestone in our advanced biofuels program confirms our belief that algae can be incredibly productive as a renewable energy source with a corresponding positive contribution to our environment. Since 2000, ExxonMobil has spent about $8 billion to develop and deploy lower-emission energy solutions across its operations.
West decided to pursue a degree in mathematics at Virginia State College (now Virginia State University ), a historically Black school in Petersburg. Instead, to solidify her skills as a manager, she earned a master’s degree in 1973 in public administration from the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
The research has so far focused on lower speed and load conditions that represent a major proportion of an engine’s operation in a real world environment. At 2000 rpm and up to approximately 2.7 Lubrication system. Wet sump with plain bearings and electric oil pump. Cooling system.
Under Slaughter’s leadership, the NSF had been a strong supporter of science programs at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). I visited schools in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia, and I established relationships with some of the scientists at Howard University ,” an HBCU in Washington, D.C. “I
It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely. After earning a Ph.D.
I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. PES University , which offers courses, tutorials, and webinars to members. He was granted two U.S.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content