Tesla Giga Texas is Austin’s largest private employer: Report
Teslarati
APRIL 1, 2024
By 2023, Tesla expanded the program to multiple Independent School Districts, where over 170 students enrolled.
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Teslarati
APRIL 1, 2024
By 2023, Tesla expanded the program to multiple Independent School Districts, where over 170 students enrolled.
Green Car Congress
MAY 16, 2014
The processes are feedstock flexible and can convert methane (natural gas, landfill gas, anaerobic digester gas), as well as biomass, municipal solid waste (MSW) and industrial waste, into transportable intermediates. Maverick currently operates demonstration plants in Florida and Colorado.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
Colorado State University. Colorado State University will develop a novel, low-cost turbo-compression cooling system that utilizes the ultra-low-grade waste (less than 150°C) heat available in many industrial processes, the energy from which is not traditionally recovered. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Temple University.
Teslarati
MAY 20, 2022
This could result in the formation of a hazardous waste stream , according to the groups. Right now, Tesla is planning to build – in addition to their 4.2 In their letter, the groups claimed that the manufacturing process of batteries in the Giga Texas complex would require a substantial amount of water and chemicals.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2015
NICE has awarded Clean Energy the contract to design, build and operate and maintain a new CNG station that will, upon completion, replace its existing Mitchel Field station, and operate and maintain the existing CNG stations. Clean Energy currently supports another 100 CNG buses at an additional station and provides a total of 4.6
Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2017
UPS plans to build an additional six compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add 390 new CNG tractors and terminal trucks and 50 liquefied natural gas (LNG) vehicles to its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. In 2016, UPS invested $100 million in CNG fueling stations and vehicles.
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The United States got the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado, and the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions. Construction of large dams began before World War II. GW) and Dasu (4.3
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 9, 2011
Research conducted through this program is focused on developing options that use resources efficiently, reduce waste generation and enable effective waste management. Reactor Concepts Research, Development and Demonstration – $11.9
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
announced today that all systems required to start up its integrated bio-refinery (IBR) in Commerce City, Colorado are mechanically complete. The gasifier is designed to produce bio-synthesis gas from various high impact wood waste and sugarcane bagasse feedstocks. Rentech, Inc.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 12, 2017
This work could be used to improve enzyme performance to better break down biomass and convert waste plant matter to renewable fuels and products. However, building a superior enzyme requires an understanding of a vast combination of factors.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Colorado Energy. The project REFUEL COLORADO, A Roadmap to Increase Alternative Fuel. Use in Colorado will work to add alternative fuel vehicles to State. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. recommendations for uniform fire and building codes for alternative. Delaware Valley.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) That’s why Liu’s Thermal Energy Storage Group at ORNL is focused primarily on buildings.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 26, 2013
Providing additional energy productivity training and technical assistance for manufacturers that build on current efforts like the Industrial Assessment Centers that offer no-cost energy efficiency assessments for manufacturers and the Better Plants Challenge. Colorado School of Mines. Lead organization. Description.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Most importantly for this project, acrylonitrile is also the primary building block in carbon fiber composites, which are used for lightweighting applications in automotive and air transportation. Moreover, this new high-yield process can utilize non-food biomass, such as agricultural wastes, as a feedstock instead of propylene.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2016
dissipating energy due to deformation of the pavement structure)—results in wasted fuel because the dissipated energy does not contribute to the vehicle’s forward movement. Deflection-induced PVI—which results from a vehicle overcoming a resisting force (i.e.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2010
Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. million acres, 11.4%
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 11, 2012
The three runners-up in this first-year competition are: 7AC Technologies , based in Woburn, Massachusetts, is developing Liquid Desiccant HVAC systems for Commercial and Industrial buildings using technology from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Timothy Hillman, University of Colorado.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2009
The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. This joint demonstration is anticipated to lead to the final design basis for the commercial facilities.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
As oxidation products build up, acid-catalyzed and other lower-energy bimolecular channels are expected to dominate and lead to rapid equilibrium between KHP and CP. That’s important, Green points out, since waste oil is among the largest hazardous waste streams in the United States. —William Green.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 22, 2022
The projects, led by universities, private companies, and national laboratories, were selected to develop technologies to advance UNF recycling, reduce the volume of high-level waste requiring permanent disposal, and provide safe domestic advanced reactor fuel stocks. Award amount: $1,580,774). Award amount: $1,844,998).
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 3, 2014
Waste heat is used to generate electricity, making Enefit shale oil plants net producers of electricity. The US tops the list of the richest oil shale reserves, accounting for more than 60% globally, with the most concentrated deposits located in the Green River Formation that lies in western Colorado, eastern Utah and southern Wyoming.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2020
As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products. Skokie, IL) - Upscaling of Non-Recyclable Plastic Waste into CarbonSmart Monomers – DOE Funding: $1,890,001. LanzaTech, Inc.
Creative Greenius
JANUARY 7, 2009
The Colorado River, where we used to get a lot of our water, is also suffering from eight years of dry weather with its two major reservoirs down to 50% of their capacity. Green Building. Solid Waste and Recycling. Last year we had the fourth driest spring on record, after a record dry year. Climate Action Plan.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project. Gas Technology Institute (GTI) will design and build an engineering-scale CO 2 capture system using the Ohio State University transformational membrane process. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas.
Creative Greenius
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; Long Beach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund. photo by Glenn Marzano).
Charged EVs
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? The idea from day one was hydrogen fuel cell-based drivetrains, but it’s hydrogen-electric, so you have to build the electric part. So, that was a progression that we made. It makes a lot of sense.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2010
ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. of Colorado-Boulder, Univ. University of Colorado-Boulder. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Planar Energy Devices.
The Truth About Cars
JULY 17, 2023
Today's Junkyard Find is just such a van, a Colorado second-generation Econoline called BIG CHEESE. Louis or Salt Lake City and moved to Colorado after its delivery days were over. The build tag says it was built at the Lorain plant in Ohio. Customized Detroit vans from the 1960s and 1970s , of course !
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 15, 2023
Proponents of this method, aneutronic fusion , argue that the devices will ultimately be easier to build and better suited to power systems, since it will be easier to convert the energy of charged particles into electricity. They also produce little or no radioactive waste. million tonnes exist.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 19, 2023
intends to develop a modular, sorbent-based air separation unit (ASU) for oxygen production to support low-cost hydrogen production from gasification of biomass and/or wastes. The team intends to address the requirement of advancing modular air separation to support modular gasification-based hydrogen production.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2009
Arches geologic province (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio) by building a geologic model and completing reservoir simulations necessary for large-scale CO 2 storage. Colorado School of Mines , Golden, Colo. In this project, investigators will develop a simulation framework for geologic CO 2 storage along the U.S.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. Colorado State. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. Earlier post.). University.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 5, 2020
Climate change mitigation will create new natural resource and supply chain opportunities and dilemmas, because substantial amounts of raw materials will be required to build new low-carbon energy devices and infrastructure. Their paper is published in Science.
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JULY 14, 2015
Chen of Colorado State University; Soltex; and Hybrid Coating Technologies. This has led to improved biofuel productivity, higher economic returns, minimal waste production, and a lower carbon footprint. carbon fixation), such that the energy of the excess photons is wasted through non-photosynthetic processes.
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2015
The program plans to provide $30 million to support 14 project teams in developing innovative, ultra-high-performance air-cooled heat exchangers, supplemental cooling systems and/or cool-storage systems that can cost-effectively and efficiently reject waste heat. Colorado State University. University of Colorado at Boulder.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
One of the benefits of using print electronics is being able to mass-produce at a low cost, says Gregory Whiting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, one of the principal investigators of the team working on the sensors. One problem with mass-producing sensors, however, is that it creates a lot of waste.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 26, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.
Cars That Think
JUNE 25, 2022
You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. That’s a lot of material made from finite resources that needlessly goes to waste. Expanding its use will prevent waste and help the environment by keeping recyclables out of landfills and making them easier to reprocess and reuse. AMP Robotics.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2017
CIRCUITS projects will establish the building blocks of this class of power converter by advancing higher efficiency designs that exhibit enhanced reliability and superior total cost of ownership. Earlier post.). Description. Cree Fayetteville. Eaton Corporation.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Building Efficiency (3 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. BUILDING EFFICIENCY. Low-cost Electrochromic Film on Plastic for Net-zero Energy Building.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. residential and commercial buildings, where there are. production units, storage units, and consumers (homes, buildings, microgrids, utility systems). University of Colorado. commercial-scale buildings that are compact enough to be. light energy.
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