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JANUARY 22, 2015

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have precisely characterized the electronic states of a manganese (Mn) water-splitting catalyst for artificial photosynthesis.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at Stanford, with colleagues at University College Cork in Ireland, have shown how to increase the power of corrosion-resistant solar cells, setting a record for solar energy output under water. Four years ago, McIntyre's lab made solar cells resistant to corrosion in water. —Scheuermann et al.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2015

million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency’s OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ). Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. Marine BioEnergy, Inc. was awarded $2.1

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Plants need nitrogen to grow, and by 2015, more than 190.4 They also generate environmental problems from degrading soil to runoff into rivers where they pollute fresh waters and coastal zones. it needs to be converted into a form that plants can use. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Team members are John W.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The E3SM project will soon convert to an “open development” project. These critical factors include a) regional air/water temperatures, which can strain energy grids; b) water availability, which affects power plant operations; c) extreme water-cycle events (e.g.

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JULY 20, 2015

Power-to-Liquids, PtL) using a multistage process ( SynKWS ), in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) – Institute of Combustion Technology Stuttgart; the University of Stuttgart IFK; and the University of Bayreuth – Chair of Chemical Engineering. Block flow diagram and system boundary of the process concept. König et al.

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DECEMBER 25, 2015

Researchers at the University of Bath (UK) have demonstrated that branched ketone biofuels produced from the alkylation of isoamyl alcohol and isobutanol with acetone have the potential to be used as blending agents with Jet A-1 fuel. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Bannister and Christopher J.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The genesis of the noise sensor development, in 2015, was that noise is one of the top quality of life issues identified in New York City, yet the city had a mere 50 noise enforcement officers on hand to deal with millions of such complaints every year. At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves." cm) in depth.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Researchers at the Tour Lab at Rice University developed an improved cost-effective approach using direct laser scribing to prepare graphene embedded with various types of metallic nanoparticles. Further doping of the material with sulfur allowed for hydrogen evolution, another catalytic process that converts water into hydrogen.

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

By employing proprietary pretreatment and processing, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Drexel University have produced flexible polymer carbon composite films from scrap tires for use as electrodes for supercapacitors. 2015) “Waste Tire Derived Carbon–Polymer Composite Paper as Pseudocapacitive Electrode with Long Cycle Life.”

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MARCH 17, 2015

It is widely believed that room temperature electrochemical reduction of water to molecular hydrogen offers a significant promise for supplying CO 2 -free hydrogen, which can be used directly as a fuel or as reactant to convert CO 2 and to upgrade petroleum and biomass feedstocks to value-added chemicals and fuels through hydrotreating processes.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

During pretreatment, acid, water, and heat work to remove non-cellulosic biomass from plant material. In total, the simulation tracked nine cellulose fibers, 468 lignin molecules, and 54 enzyme molecules in a rectangular water box. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Mediterranean migration hit international headlines in 2015 when the Syrian civil war helped drive up numbers to around 1 million people. But the post-2015 rules ballooned its budget. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. It is a problem of the entire society.” But that was an unusual year.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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APRIL 3, 2015

Results of a 14-week study by Rice University researchers suggest that algae monocultures for biofuel feedstock can be grown in open tank bioreactors using municipal wastewater as a nutrient source. More than 80% of lipids were converted to FAME indicating potentially high production for conversion to biodiesel (up to 0.9

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JULY 23, 2015

Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, the University of Science and Technology of China, and the South China University of Technology have taken a novel approach—one quite distinct from elaborate physical or chemical treatments of expensive silicon precursors. —Liu et al. —Liu et al.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations.

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MARCH 27, 2015

DTNA’s SuperTruck was unveiled at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show. DTNA unveiled its SuperTruck at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in the Freightliner Trucks booth. Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO).

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MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Licht et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The process begins with conducting hydrogel, a water-based polymer with a spongy texture similar to soft contact lenses. 5b00149.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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JUNE 18, 2015

A prototype automotive waste heat recovery system has been fired up on a recently commissioned test rig at the University of Brighton. Libertine expects the results from rig tests to confirm the system’s potential to convert the high grade heat in the exhaust into electrical power, which can contribute to either powertrain or auxiliary loads.

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JULY 16, 2014

gasoline unit that is the first member of a new family of 14 highly efficient engines to be launched by 2015. It includes a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, an electric water pump, a low-friction distribution chain, an intake manifold made of a composite material and a compact exhaust manifold. lbs) lighter.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Increasing evidence suggests that biomass can be used much more efficiently (and therefore with less environmental impact) through direct combustion to generate electricity and heat, rather than being converted to liquid fuels such as ethanol. However very few studies include water use impacts. Ravindranath et al.

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JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An important early paper (2015) by Joshua Gans and Hanna Halaburda on private digital currencies pointed out that “any currency can be viewed as a platform”—and it is the attractiveness of the platform on which its adoption depends. Customers could convert U.S. The amazons could be converted frictionlessly into dollars.

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JULY 15, 2023

In 2015, Mumgaard huddled with a group of his fellow MIT researchers to rethink the approach to fusion power. national labs and universities as well as international research institutes. Indeed, each of CFS’s six founders have worked on different aspects of Iter and contributed to its foundational physics.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. He worked for SolarCity and Tesla between 2015 and 2018 and now for Solar Smart Living (since 2018).

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MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Mattershift.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle re-fuels in 3–5 minutes, travels up to 300 miles (482 km) on a full tank, and will be available to customers in California beginning in fall 2015. The amount of water on fuel cell electrolyte membranes has a substantial influence on electricity generation efficiency. FC Boost Converter.

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MAY 21, 2022

Although researchers revisit the idea of solar-power satellites with some regularity, those performing actual demonstrations of power beaming have struggled to surpass the high-water mark for efficiency, distance, and power level reached in 1975. The Japanese researchers who started this tradition in 2015 prepared themselves some tea.).

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Reversible fuel-electrolysis cells. earlier post ). —Harry Tuller.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi presented a range of its ongoing work on electromobility and efficiency—from fuels and systems to full vehicles—under the “Future Performance Days 2015” banner. Under a venture with the motto “From Road to Grid”, Audi is therefore currently working on a concept to convert old batteries into stationary energy stores.

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