article thumbnail

Study Measures Impact of Biodiesel on Non-Regulated Pollutants in Heavy-Duty Engine

Green Car Congress

However, conversion of 1-nitropyrene by the DPF was less than 50% for all fuels. The DPF was highly effective for conversion of carbonyls, with the exception of formaldehyde. John Dane, Aaron Williams, John Ireland, Jon Luecke, Robert L. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es1008032. Ratcliff, A. McCormick, and Kent J.

Pollution 210
article thumbnail

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. Delivery of hydrogen from offshore, on the other hand, would be easy via pipeline.

Wind 89
article thumbnail

How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner

Cars That Think

The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The IEEE United Kingdom and Ireland Section sponsored the nomination. The physician complained that X-ray images of the brain were too grainy and only two-dimensional.

Companies 145
article thumbnail

Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

Cars That Think

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. The message above was sent through the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland, way back in 1858. million km of submarine cables (Figure 1) in service, ranging from a short 131 km cable between Ireland and the U.K. Coil signals too weak to relay.

Wind 71
article thumbnail

The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

Cars That Think

On 4 March 2015, he sent an email to the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum : “A while back you had an article that talked about the DDoS attacks on Rutgers. With this information, it would seek court orders and then search warrants to acquire the content of the conspirators’ conversations. The next semester Paras tried again.

Alaska 135