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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1.

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JULY 9, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO 2 ) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., using a combination of heat and magnesium—reduction. 1 after 1,000 cycles. —Favors et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Although there has been no public announcement or discussion of what such an Audi/Global Bioenergies development effort might entail, in 2011, Global Bioenergies began a feasibility study to examine whether its artificial isobutene pathway could be functionally transferred into LanzaTech’s carbon monoxide-using organism ( earlier post ).

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MARCH 22, 2015

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new noble metal-free catalyst—Ni 5 P 4 (nickel-5 phosphide-4)—performing on par with platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both strong acid and base. Our new HER catalyst, Ni 5 P 4 , has the strong potential to overcome this challenge. —Charles Dismukes.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). —Li et al.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Researchers from South Korea, Case Western Reserve University and University of North Texas have synthesized new inexpensive and easily produced metal-free catalysts—edge-selectively halogenated graphene nanoplatelets (XGnPs)—that can perform better than platinum in oxygen-reduction reactions. —Jeon et al.

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JUNE 28, 2011

This research is being performed through teamwork with local universities: the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maryland. NETL researchers have synthesized Si-C (carbon fiber, carbon nanotube, carbon mattes, graphene) composite anodes.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

It opens up a path to making low-cost, compact sodium batteries practical. Abundant and cheap, and with similar chemical properties as lithium, sodium is a promising replacement for lithium in next-generation batteries. Some sodium battery developers are using activated carbon for the anode, which holds sodium ions in its pores.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

meters, was designed by students from the University of Leeds. The four students from the University of Leeds’ Faculty of Engineering developed an initial concept of the UAV, created the design and performed an aerodynamic analysis under the supervision of EADS expert Martin Muir. The plane, with a wingspan of approximately 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2012

They also demonstrated that the production of biodiesel using the lipids extracted from sewage sludge (SS) could be economically feasible because of its remarkably high yield of oil and low cost, as compared to conventional biodiesel feedstocks. Illustration of non-catalytic biodiesel conversion Credit: ACS, Kwon et al.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Quantum technology relies on quantum effects that can arise because the universe can become a fuzzy place at its very smallest levels. It relies on microscopic artificial diamonds with defects within them, in which a carbon atom is replaced with a nitrogen atom and the adjacent carbon atom is missing.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD makes about 80% of Motorolas RAZR handsets, as well as batteries for iPods and iPhones and low-cost computers, including the model distributed by Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop per Child nonprofit based in Cambridge, Mass. tons of carbon dioxide. near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. Next: a carbon tax. Follow the money.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)

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