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APRIL 6, 2018

A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting mushrooms, is capable of directly converting cellulose to biobutanol. Credit: National University of Singapore.

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce operating costs and open the door to capturing the large amounts of CO 2 that are generated by CTL. —Wang et al. 10, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau2947.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A direct air capture unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) extracts carbon dioxide from air.

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MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). b A typical current discharge profile of the FJH procedure to convert ELV-WP into ELV-WP-FG. Wyss et al. Wyss et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2018, Lithium Americas completed a pre-feasibility study (PFS) on a two-phase project with a production capacity designed to reach 60,000 tpa of battery- quality lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3 ) and 46-year mine life. This process produces steam, which will be use to generate power for the processing facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2017

StreetScooter, a start-up spun out of German technical university RWTH Aachen, has already developed a small electric van; the StreetScooter van is powered by a 20.4 Before the end of 2018, at least 2,500 vehicles will support the urban delivery traffic of Deutsche Post DHL Group. kWh Li-ion battery pack and propelled by a 30 kW motor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The US Department of Energy announced $98 million in funding for 40 new projects as part of OPEN 2018, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) latest open funding opportunity. University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. Single atoms of nickel, however, produce a different result.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The move has been welcomed by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as a significant step forward in the UK’s contribution to reducing carbon emissions. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2018

The researchers analyzed extensive satellite and ground-based measurements of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide. Jiang, who conducted much of the research during a postdoctoral fellowship at NCAR, is now with the University of Science and Technology of China. Figure by Zhe Jiang, redrawn by Simmi Sinha, UCAR. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 10, 2018

They first prepared porous sulfonated carbon (PSC) from LDPE plastic via microwave-promoted sulfonation. However, each process to optimize the carbon scaffold with functional polymers and carve functional groups on the surface of carbon is too complicated and requires expensive and elaborate techniques. —Kim et al.

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JULY 2, 2018

converting solar energy to fuel energy using visible-light-absorbing semiconductor materials. Kazuhiko Maeda of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Kengo Oka of Chuo University and collaborators in Japan have succeeded in demonstrating that Pb 2 Ti 2 O 5.4 Pb 2 Ti 2 O 5.4 F 1.2 , which is capable of absorbing visible light.

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MAY 28, 2018

Researchers at the University of Akron have developed hierarchical porous Mn 3 O 4 /C nanospheres as anode materials for Li-ion batteries. It has been well recognized that nano-engineering and carbon hybridization are effective ways to overcome or limit these issues. … Credit: ACS, Liu et al. 2018.05.064.

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JULY 23, 2018

In the quest to realize artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into fuel—just as plants do—researchers need to not only identify materials to efficiently perform photoelectrochemical water splitting, but also to understand why a certain material may or may not work. —Francesca Toma.

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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., If successful, the first commercialization of this technology is expected as early as 2018. The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The authors identified a number of challenges for new fuels for a low-carbon transportation sector: Fuels tailored to engines with cycle and system advances that increase overall conversion of chemical energy to useful work. 2018) “Future transportation fuels.” —Kalghatgi et al. Kalghatgi, G., Levinsky, H., & Colket, M.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new approach for creating new catalysts to aid in clean energy conversion and storage. i) PPL is used to pattern PEO-b-P2VP nanoreactors, loaded with the appropriate metal salts, onto a glassy carbon substrate. The global catalysis market is expected to reach $34.3 1800884115.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Field testing the potential for combining geologic carbon dioxide storage with enhanced methane recovery is underway at a site in Alabama by a US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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Green Car Congress

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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APRIL 18, 2022

When most of us consider ways to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector, we immediately think of electric cars or vehicles in general, and in that case, we are right to a greater extent.  Unlike Lithium, hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe ( Lithium is the key component in electric vehicle batteries).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Alabama A&M University. Alabama A&M University’s Bulldog Transit System will receive funding to purchase electric buses, charging stations, and other associated equipment. AVTA is committed to having an all electric fleet by 2018. The buses will be deployed in areas such as downtown and the University. 500,000.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter nm-diameter CNTs traversing a large-area nonporous polysulfone film.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

440 fission reactors operating worldwide, which together can generate about 400 gigawatts of power with zero carbon emissions. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5 There are currently about.

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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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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

At that point, we’ll be one step closer to a new era of carbon-free baseload electricity,” says Sorbom. “We national labs and universities as well as international research institutes. We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.”

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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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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Scientists at Stanford University have developed electrochemical cells that convert carbon monoxide (CO) derived from CO 2 into commercially viable compounds more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. —senior author Matthew Kanan, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The enzymes could now potentially be used to sustainably convert wood biomass into valuable chemical commodities such as biofuels. Fungi play a significant role in ecosystems in breaking down wood within the carbon cycle, releasing nutrients back into soil. A paper on their discovery is published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

candidate at Stanford University, launches Peregrine at Norway’s Slakbreen glacier. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Navy Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport was converted into an IPR-data-collection aircraft. At the time, two U.S.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, researchers built this first prototype of a machine that could write, store, and read data with DNA. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. In other words, we already convert digital information to and from DNA, but generally using only sequences that make sense in terms of biology.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today's neural networks also learn parameter values, but those parameters are part of such flexible computer models that—if they are big enough—they become universal function approximators, meaning they can fit any type of data. Later systems incorporated learning to set their adjustable parameters, but these were usually few in number.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covered in greater detail in an earlier post , the battery-electric e-tron quattro concept provides a very close foreshadowing of the production model to follow in 2018. 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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