Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. You’d waste more water than you saved.

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IDEA Water REVA Personal 89

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Advanced Separation and Processing Technologies for Enhanced Product Recovery and Improved Water Utilization, Cost Reduction, and Environmental Impact of an Integrated Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling System. Low-Cost and Scalable Second Use Battery Demonstration in Central California for Equitable Domestic Manufacturing and Job Growth.

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Lithium Ion Batteries Battery San Diego 312

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JUNE 6, 2012

Providing a possible new route to hydrogen-gas production, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new manganese-based thermochemical cycle with a highest operating temperature of 850?°C Davis’ first paper as a graduate student dealt with the sulfur-iodine low-temperature water-splitting cycle.).

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Water Davis Sodium Engine 210

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. Earlier post.). That could replace 5.5%

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Waste Grant Fuel Gas-Electric 210

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. The technology has the potential to increase the generation and efficiency of solar power in California. Lee Huang of Eneron Inc.

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Gas-Electric California Gas Energy 230

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Southern California Gas Co. Last month, the utility received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for a pilot program to purchase the renewable fuel and capture the additional environmental credits generated. California provides incentive funding to help trucking fleets transition to renewable natural gas.

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Renewable Gas Fuel San Diego 255

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AUGUST 1, 2020

These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources. Scale-up and Qualification of Net-Zero Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Wet Waste. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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Waste Conversion Universal San Diego 186

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APRIL 11, 2023

In collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the SDSU researchers plan to reverse engineer the biological processes that allow the bacteria to harvest the metals from the environment. REEs include the many lanthanide elements of the periodic table.

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MAY 9, 2012

has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas and elsewhere to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a process it originally developed for algae harvesting. —Andrew Komor, vice president for environmental water at PACE.

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Water Oil Commercial Texas 210

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production for commercially viable renewable fuels and chemicals, formally launched its pilot facility in Mountain View, California. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Silicon Valley cleantech leaders were on hand.

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JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. The consortium is being led by the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation ( WERF ). DOE funding is expected to pay for about half of the design and planning of a pilot plant to produce these renewable fuels at a municipal wastewater treatment facility near Oakland, California. Tesoro Corp.,

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Convert Oakland Fuel Water 150

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JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. MicroBio Engineering Inc., University of California Riverside, “Scale-up Demonstration of Hybrid Catalytic Biorefining of Biomass to Sustainable Aviation and Marine Fuels”, $2,000,000.

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MAY 29, 2024

Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe, and a crucial element in the creation of our most precious resource: water. Recently, industry has turned to green hydrogen, created by running an electric current through water with an electrolyte. Put this in a car and you have a fuel-cell electric vehicle. Hyundai Motor Co.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 17, 2024

Renewable diesel can be produced using various technologies including those that process solid biomass, liquid biomass, waste gasification and pyrolysis. One challenge is feed pretreatment, which can be done with acid, high-pressure water and/or adsorbents, depending on the technology selection.

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Renewable Diesel Oakland Fleet 77

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MARCH 27, 2015

Testing was also conducted at the DTNA Detroit engineering facility to demonstrate engine efficiency by achieving 50.2% engine brake thermal efficiency. liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. mpg (19.26

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2009 Engine Detroit Oregon 150

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MARCH 31, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. The finding came out of ongoing research conducted at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and funded by SoCalGas. The Southern California Gas Company system alone is made up of over 100,000 miles of pipeline. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We only drove ’normal’ ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars before but those gave me a feeling of always being in a hurry. The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries. petrol engine is not running. The Atkinson cycle petrol engine was made for regular stop-starts and is very reliable.

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2004 Prius Cheap 2009 409

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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DECEMBER 25, 2014

EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Vitruvian Energy is trying to crowd-fund its novel biofuel EEB (ethyl 3-ethoxybutyrate).

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Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Diesel Alabama 290

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MAY 4, 2018

Renewable diesel is a 100% hydrocarbon renewable fuel produced by hydrotreating fats and oils; it can be used in existing diesel engines without modification. Increased cetane aids self-ignition of fuel and allows for easier starting, smoother running engines and reliable operation. removing sulfur molecules (hydrodesulfurization) ?from

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Renewable Diesel New York City New York 210

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MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The power is anticipated to be sold to local utilities under the California RPS program. The Rentech Process is based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry.

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California Power Powered Building 170

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MARCH 11, 2022

Its energy division—CIMC ENRIC—is a world-leading manufacturer of key equipment and services provider of engineering and system solutions for the clean energy, chemical and liquid food industries. CIMC is a large, industrial conglomerate that has been a partner of Maersk for more than two decades. WasteFuel (US).

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JULY 8, 2014

California-based Aemetis, Inc. has received US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval for the issuance of D4 RINs upon the importation into the US of biodiesel produced from waste fats and oils (WFO). esters and nearly no monoglycerides, water or other contaminants.

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EPA India Renewable Maryland 218

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APRIL 12, 2016

Ford’s zero-waste, net zero-energy, net zero-water Sustainability Showcase facility will produce more energy than it consumes, and will use geothermal heating and cooling and photovoltaic power generation. Construction of the new product campus begins this month at the Ford Research and Engineering Center. Click to enlarge.

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Environment Ford Building Water 150

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JUNE 20, 2011

Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. Genomatica’s integrated bioprocess engineering and extensive intellectual property allow it to develop organisms and processes rapidly for many other basic chemicals. per million Btu. Genomatica expects to begin commercial production of Bio-BDO in 2012.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) extracts natural gas by injecting a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals in short bursts at high pressure into deep underground wells.

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Oil-Sands Gas Water Oil 250

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The California Air Resources Board released the draft proposed first update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan, which guides development and implementation of California’s greenhouse gas emission reduction programs. California’s zero emission vehicle (ZEV) regulation is also driving a transformation of the fleet. Transportation.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

EPA defines an AECD as “ any element of design that senses temperature, motive speed, engine RPM, transmission gear, or any other parameter for the purpose of activating, modulating, delaying, or deactivating the operation of any part of the emission-control system. ”. diesel engine. Typical AECDs include controls for: Starting.

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2016 America EPA Vehicles 150

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MAY 21, 2010

California State University, Long Beach - $1,390,252. The goal of this research area is to research and develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that will produce more energy and create less waste. University of California, Berkeley - $1,320,667. University of California, Santa Barbara - $995,232.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Energy Storage Energy Molten Salt Grid 100

Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. Austin, Texas.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste. There are 2.6

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Climate Hydrogen Los Angeles Climate Change 97

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Powering them with clean energy sources won’t be difficult given China’s plentiful renewable capacity, says Michael Davidson , an engineering-systems and global-policy expert at the University of California, San Diego. Plus, the CO 2 system produces higher-temperature waste heat, which can be used for space heating and hot water.

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Carbon China Wind North America 104

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MARCH 21, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved $5,580,773 for clean-energy transportation projects including biodiesel production, power control electronics for medium-and heavy-duty battery electric vehicles, and buydowns for propane vehicles. Tour Engine, Inc. , million ZEVs on the state’s roads.

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San Diego California Energy Transportation 346

EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

“There is no long-term future for cars with an internal combustion engine. A calculation of the resources for each relative to their weight shows internal combustion engines burn material 300 times greater than that lost once an electric car battery is scrapped. – March 1, via Reuters. – February 26, via The Driven.

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Volvo All-Electric Tax Credit Fisker 95

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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.

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