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Ford CEO favors Waymo’s LiDAR approach over Tesla’s vision-only self-driving

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Ford CEO Jim Farley shared some skepticism about Tesla’s camera-only approach to self-driving during a recent appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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Plug’n Drive and The City of Calgary Bring Electric Vehicle Test Drives to Calgary

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.” EV Roadshows in Calgary and Cochrane As part of MEET Calgary , there will be additional EV Roadshows taking place at various NAPA AUTOPRO shops in the area, and one presented by The City of Calgary at Strathcona Christie Aspen Community Association.

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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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According to the lab’s lore, Spitzer came up with the idea while riding a ski lift at Aspen Mountain in 1951. Hanging in PPPL’s lobby is a black-and-white photo of the lab’s founder, physicist Lyman Spitzer , smiling as he shows off the fanciful-looking apparatus he invented and dubbed a stellarator, or “star generator.”

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Nonalcoholic Drinks Go Their Own Way

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In 2023, Herms commissioned a version of the chairs shaped like a childs rocking horse, outfitting it with one of its lavish saddles for the window of its Aspen, Colo., The artist, who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and has an M.F.A. where he had a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center; and Mexico.

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Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen partner on renewable isooctane for specialty fuel applications

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Global Bioenergies, IBN-One and Lantmännen Aspen, world market leader in alkylate gasoline for two- and four-stroke small engines, have entered into a partnership on renewable isooctane ( earlier post ) for specialty fuel applications. billion (US$3.8

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Argonne study shows range of GHG reductions for electrofuel Fischer-Tropsch; up to 108% reduction

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The authors modeled the FT fuel synthesis process using Aspen Plus, which showed that 45% of the carbon in CO 2 can be fixed in the FT fuel, with a fuel production energy efficiency of 58%. This study highlights the sensitivity of the carbon intensity of FT fuels to the system boundary selection (i.e.,

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Ionic Materials raises $65M in Series C; polymer electrolyte for solid-state batteries

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Joy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a lifetime trustee of the Aspen Institute.). Joy served as chief scientist there until 2003. Ionic Materials will provide its polymer to the battery industry as an advanced materials supplier.

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