Remove Austin Remove Building Remove Design Remove Waste
article thumbnail

ACU’s NEXT Lab submits application to NRC to build molten-salt research reactor

Green Car Congress

The ORNL MSRE design incorporated a one region reactor with graphite moderator and circulating fuel. The MSRE design used light water for cooling the containment atmosphere, containment vessel, reactor shield, drain tank, primary pump, and containment penetrations. Its completion next summer will mark another milestone.

article thumbnail

NSF awards $2M to Rice U collaboration to explore direct conversion of CO2 into fuels

Green Car Congress

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

article thumbnail

Tesla’s mobile robotics manager posts new batch of Tesla Bot job openings

Teslarati

The company isn’t wasting any time making the Tesla Bot prototype based on its recent hiring ramp. However, there is one located in Austin, Texas. . Your job is to figure out how these products could fail and to collaborate with design partners to drive changes. Tesla announced its plans to produce the Tesla Bot during AI Day.

Tesla 145
article thumbnail

DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

Green Car Congress

Converting captured CO 2 into products such as chemicals, carbonates, plastics, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology, the DOE said. Converting CO 2 into other useful forms can help reduce carbon emissions in areas where long-term storage of CO 2 is not practical.

article thumbnail

This Axial-Flux Motor With a PCB Stator Is Ripe for an Electrified World

Cars That Think

Despite the benefits of the PCB stator, people were slow to embrace the design because of a few misconceptions. My company, Infinitum Electric , of Austin, Texas, has developed a PCB stator motor that fits a wide variety of purposes. In the past, attempts to build such a motor faced serious practical obstacles.

Motor 107
article thumbnail

LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

Drew Baglino noted that there’s no large-scale cathode refining facility in the US for now, so Tesla had to build one. 17:25 CST – Tom highlights that Tesla can build its factories extremely quickly. Actuators, battery packs, and Optimus’ other key components are custom designed by Tesla.

Tesla 138
article thumbnail

How Will AI Affect the Semiconductor Industry?

Cars That Think

The group speculated about how and when AI will upend the way chips are designed and just how strange a place the coming “AI wonderland” will turn out to be. We are entering an era of electronic design creation,” said AMD senior vice president Ivo Bolsens. Bolsens used a recent trip to Austin as an analogy. “I