Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. 6b00665.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Stripper-operated wells account for all of the oil production in the state of Illinois, for instance. With average monthly costs of around $2,000, that means that a stripper has to pump at least 2.33 Stripper well shutdowns could increase significantly as 2016 gears up. These wells account for roughly 11.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2016

A techno-economic analysis by a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has determined that biodiesel produced from oil from genetically modified lipid-producing sugarcane (lipid-cane) is much more economical than biodiesel produced from soybean oil.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Researchers from the University of Illinois and colleagues in China investigating the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a port fuel-injection SI engine fueled with isopropanol-n-butanol-ethanol (IBE)-gasoline blends have concluded that an IBE30 blend could be a good alternative to gasoline. —Li et al.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In 2016, Kemp started working on the design of a new robot. And with a commercial price of US $20,000, Stretch is a tiny fraction of the cost of a PR2. Eight years into the Robots for Humanity project, they still didn’t have a robot that was practical enough for people like Henry and Jane to actually use. “I

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