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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Tesla is planning to build something called “Giga Water Loop” just outside of Gigafactory Texas in Austin. more… The post Tesla is building something called ‘Giga Water Loop’ appeared first on Electrek. But we are not sure what it is.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Monash University (Australia) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have recently discovered a new, efficient way to extract lithium and other metals and minerals from water. —Benny Freeman, UT Austin. million smartphones.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

During Tesla’s Q4 2024 Earnings Call in late January, Musk confirmed that the company would launch an autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas, sometime in June: “So, we’re going to be launching unsupervised full self-driving as a paid service in Austin in June. So, I talked to the team. In fact, it does.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Source: UT Austin. During hydraulic fracturing, liquids that typically consist of water, sand and additives are injected at high pressure into low-permeability formations. In a liquids unloading, wells are cleared of water and other liquids that are inhibiting production. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 million to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water into hydrogen. Mullins said that researchers have studied water splitting using photoelectrochemistry for the past 40 years and progress has been made. Charles Mullins.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In theory, the decomposition potential of water is 4.27

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2014

A new satellite study finds more than 75% of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought. This is a lot of water to lose. Credit: U.S.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

John Goodenough from the University of Texas as Austin, has found one of the most effective catalysts yet discovered for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for use in water-splitting to produce hydrogen or in rechargeable metal-air batteries. storage options such as direct-solar and electricity-driven water splitting (H 2 O ?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When methane hydrates are “melted,” or exposed to pressure and temperature conditions outside those where the formations are stable, the solid crystalline lattice turns to liquid water, and the enclosed methane molecules are released as gas. The University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.). DOE Investment: approximately $480,000 ?.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute. Fundamental scientific research integrating results from the other four themes in the context of public health. Lead Investigator: Edward J. Buskey, Ph.D. Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Investigator: Vijay T.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Between five and ten percent of the water injected in these systems is lost as it travels through the pore spaces. As this happens, more water must be added, perhaps from municipal sources that have little to spare. Their work has shown that supercritical CO 2 is better than water at mining heat from the subsurface.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Sodium silicides rapidly liberate hydrogen from water (or water solutions) leaving sodium silicate, a benign common industrial chemical. In addition to Trulite, the University of Texas Austin Center for Electromechanics has been a research partner. Sodium-Silica-Gel: 2Na-SG + H 2 O → H 2 + Na 2 Si 2 O 5.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions. American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. Topic 1, Area of Interest 3: Large Scale Projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2011

First launched in Ulm, Germany three years ago, car2go was successfully rolled out a year later in North America in Austin, Texas. To date, a total of more than 35,000 customers have joined the car2go program in Ulm and Austin. A newly created company, car2go Canada Ltd.,

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JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Reclaimed water system. OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s The Mueller Community. Attributes include: 700 acres. Ultra green-built.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Click to enlarge. Dr. Kenneth H.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Optimized rock-fluid models will incorporate the seismic signatures of (1) saturation scales and free versus dissolved gas in a CO 2 -water mixture, (2) pore pressure changes, and (3) CO 2 -induced chemical changes to the host rock. University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology , Austin, Texas.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. Freeman, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. The CNTs used in the membranes were arc discharge nanotubes with inner diameters of 0.67 Source: Mattershift. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

million square feet, the Taylor facility would be over four times the size of the company’s Austin plant, which was affected by the state’s power issues earlier this year. The chips used in Tesla’s FSD computer are produced at Samsung’s Austin site. Samsung’s upcoming $17 billion chip plant is remarkable.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Green Energy Oilfield Services will operate 50 trucks as vacuum trucks, used to remove and dispose of formation water, and 10 as winch trucks, used to transport frac tanks. The trucks are expected to enter operation in April. Clean Energy will provide the LNG fuel for the vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

This prototype Fuel Cell Black Cab, which emits only water from its tailpipe, is an exciting glimpse of how hydrogen technology could soon play a vital role in cleaning up air quality for urban dwellers. The black cab that most people associate with London taxis was the Austin FX4, introduced in 1959.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

The Port of Corpus Christi says that it is uniquely suited to become the nation’s premier carbon capture and sequestration management hub based on the high density of industrial CO 2 emitters, a robust network of existing pipeline infrastructure, and the Port Authority’s ownership of lands leading to state waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2019

By analyzing trillions of anonymous data points from hundreds of millions of connected devices, INRIX Research identified the current routes with the greatest market potential in the Atlanta, Austin, Boston and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Two major water features—Lake Travis and the Colorado River—impact driving in the area.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Silicon nanoparticles were dispersed in a solution of phytic acid and aniline in water, followed by the addition of an oxidizer. Hydrogel primarily consists of water, which can cause lithium-ion batteries to ignite—a potential problem that the research team had to address. —Wu et al.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2025

In hydrogen electrolysis, the membrane helps split water by separating hydrogen from oxygen. The field relies on electrolyzers, which use electricity to split water molecules to release hydrogen. Fluorinated polymer membranes are an efficient option, but they pollute water and introduce forever chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. The University of Texas at Austin. The technologies use electricity to extract valuable metal ions from the surrounding mineral matrix at sub-boiling temperatures.

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Teslarati

MARCH 26, 2022

Located just east of downtown Austin, Giga Texas will produce several of Tesla’s electric vehicles, including the Model Y and Cybertruck. Tesla announced it would hold an event to commemorate the opening of its newest production facility and second in the United States, Gigafactory Texas. Credit: Joe Tegtmeyer/YouTube.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2018, Vance co-led the collaborative HOMEChem field campaign, which used advanced sensors and cameras to monitor the indoor air quality of a 1,200-square-foot manufactured home on the University of Texas Austin campus.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

The project, which was supported by the National Science Foundation, involved researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, and the Raytheon Company. Pettes and Sally McMenamin in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin; and Daniel P.

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Electrek

MAY 24, 2022

A group of environmentalists is asking the city of Austin to withhold Tesla’s permit for its upcoming battery cathode material factory next to Gigafactory Texas over concerns about water supply along the Colorado River.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

Researchers at the University of California at San Diego will design, build, and test an electromagnetic (EM) system designed for very shallow water use and will apply the system to determine the extent of offshore permafrost on the US Beaufort inner shelf. The University of Texas at Austin. University of California at San Diego.

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Teslarati

JULY 18, 2022

The Tesla CEO replied to Sparks, commenting that an HVAC system is especially important in places like Austin, which have “next-level amount[s] of pollen in the air.” Especially important in places like Austin, which has next-level amounts of pollen in the air. The next logical step is obviously HVAC and water and heating.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

The MSRE design used light water for cooling the containment atmosphere, containment vessel, reactor shield, drain tank, primary pump, and containment penetrations. ACU is leading the NEXT Research Alliance (NEXTRA), which includes Georgia Institute of Technology, Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin, in a $30.5-million

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2016

For many of the compounds, there was a distinct signal that strongly suggested degradation had been much faster while the oil was still suspended in the water column and had slowed down considerably after deposition to the seafloor. Our evidence is circumstantial but points to rapid biodegradation of suspended oil. Bagby, Christopher M.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

You start with water, add energy to split the oxygen and hydrogen molecules apart, and get H 2. Worman, postdoc at UT Austin, who led the study while a doctoral student at Duke. Right now, the only way to get H 2 —to use in fuel cells, for example—is through secondary processes. —Stacey L.

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