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MARCH 22, 2019

Tuning the reaction conditions also permits the selective production of methyl cyclopentane, which can be used as high-octane-number gasoline additive. This resulted in a 71% isolated carbon yield—a 5% increase from the product yield in their initial work. An open-access paper on their work is published in the journal Joule.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Specific energies and energy densities including conversion losses. An ester and a metal salt are then added in order to form the finished product. POWERPASTE is also cheap to transport, since no costly high-pressure tanks are involved nor the use of extremely cold liquid hydrogen. This is a specific energy of 1.6

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MAY 19, 2014

A duo at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) is proposing an approach for the conversion of natural gas at gas-transport-constrained fields to easily transportable, high-octane liquid products. A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Hussin and Traa.

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JUNE 14, 2010

And oil only seems cheap. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses. Our effort will inspire other startups to accelerate development of liquid fuels from algae and agricultural waste products. When they’re mass-produced, conversions will cost under $10-$15,000.

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JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Source: Lux Research.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The complete Blue World system includes the fuel cell stack, the methanol reformer, heat-exchanger, power conversion units and a set of power and operation controllers, and balance of plant. This would enable a ~3-minute refueling time with a +1000 km range using a cheap, simple fuel with reuse of existing infrastructure and logistics.

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According to tests, using 100 kWh of electricity to produce hydrogen, and after storage, transportation, and conversion to electrical energy to drive the motor, its energy utilization rate is only 38%. Electricity is abundant, relatively cheap, and can be easily delivered to any place with a plug.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Chemists at the University of Illinois report the development of a nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that could more effectively support the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass as well as improved liquefaction of coal. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of Science. —Sergeev and Hartwig.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Hybrid conversion of glucose into UPA-6,6. The process uses an engineered strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the initial biocatalyst for the conversion of glucose into muconic acid, with the highest reported muconic acid titer of 559.5 mg L Their study is published in the 12 Feb. Suastegui et al. Click to enlarge. mg L −1 in yeast.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

GC-MS chromatogram of the liquid products obtained after hydrodeoxygenation of angelica lactone dimer. Considering that levulinic acid is available with more than 80% conversion from raw biomass, a field-to-tank yield of drop-in, cellulosic gasoline of more than 60% is possible, the researchers claimed. Source: Mascal et al.

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APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature. In this experiment, ethanol was the major product.

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APRIL 24, 2013

This illustration depicts the synthesis of a new hydrogen-production catalyst from soybean proteins and ammonium molybdate. The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. Catalysts Hydrogen Production' Energy Environ.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 25, 2024

As EV production and, with it, battery production accelerate over the next decade, so too will the demand for rigorous EV battery testing. One such product family was the BAT300 series electric power testing devices made by Unico. It may be a wonderful product. But important questions remain. “It

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MARCH 22, 2015

Consequently, the authors noted, research has focused on developing alternative, cheap, and robust catalysts made from earth-abundant elements. Here, we show that crystalline Ni 5 P 4 evolves H 2 with geometric electrical to chemical conversion efficiency on par with Pt in strong acid (33 mV dec -1 Tafel slope and ?62 Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 16, 2014

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) have discovered a new photocatalyst, Sn 3 O 4 , which facilitates the production of hydrogen fuel from water, using sunlight as an energy source. Sn 3 O 4 has great potential as an abundant, cheap, and environmentally benign solar-energy conversion catalyst.

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APRIL 7, 2014

TE materials have been employed previously in automotive applications but have not achieved reasonable conversion efficiencies. Even though efficient, the current prototype is not in a position to result immediately in an economically viable product due to high cost at €8.4 (US$11.5) The researchers tackled this issue in two ways.

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JULY 21, 2016

Even more importantly, we show for the first time, to the best our knowledge, that fescue grass as raw biomass can be effective for hydrogen production without significant pre-treatment. Up until recently, the production of hydrogen from cellulose by means of photocatalysis has not been extensively studied. —Caravaca et al.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You could get the Geo Metro with an automatic, and I've found exactly one during my junkyard travels (and that includes EV conversions ). Production of the Chevrolet Metro continued through 2001, after which it was replaced by the Suzuki Aerio and the Daewoo -built Chevrolet Aveo. Such is the nature of the mighty GM Empire.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Although ethanol has since gone on to become the most abundant global biofuel, with production estimated to reach 73 billion gallons per year by 2030, turpentine is not not used as a transportation fuel—despite several advantages over ethanol, including an exceptional volumetric net heat of combustion and low volatility. 2012.01.062.

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AUGUST 29, 2009

A*STAR is also conducting research in Solar Photovoltaics, Next Generation Power Grids, Intelligent Energy Distribution, Fuel Cells, Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals and Sustainable Manufacturing. The by-products of this can be used as construction or landfill materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

We show that water-splitting catalysts comprising earth- abundant materials can be integrated with amorphous silicon with minimal engineering to enable direct solar-to-fuels conversion based on water splitting. The new device is not yet ready for commercial production, since systems to collect, store and use the gases remain to be developed.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

In fact, we reckon there are almost 20 load-haulers either confirmed or said to be on the way to production. Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. Let’s check out the list. Will it come to Australia?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In an open-access paper in the journal Nature Communications, the team said that their advance provides a different pathway to design cheap, efficient and sizable hydrogen-evolving electrode by simultaneously tuning the number of catalytic edge sites, porosity, heteroatom doping and electrical conductivity.

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APRIL 28, 2014

Herein, we propose a new metal oxide composite anode material in lithium-ion batteries application, which is prepared by a simple and cheap method. The team speculated that the mechanism of the reversible conversion reaction is attributed to the catalytic effect of Co 3 Ge 2. This composite material is a mixture of GeO 2 oxide and Sn?Co?C

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JUNE 29, 2009

During the first half of 2009, the Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla ( earlier post ) ran four major production campaigns each of which has seen further improvements in plant performance, according to the company.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The California Motor Vehicle Digital Number Plates bill that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed this month authorizes digital replacements for conventional license plates, stickers, tabs, and registration cards, including the first-to-market Reviver product. states are considering authorization. See updated pricing above. –Ed.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

CO 2 , CO and syngas cause global warming, but represent an abundant and cheap source of carbon. As one example, Global Bioenergies and its partner Audi have been exploring technology allowing the production of renewable isooctane (derived from isobutene) not derived from biomass sources—i.e., Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MAY 18, 2021

Conversely, the majority of radial flux machines are the asynchronous induction type, whereas most axial flux machines are the PM synchronous type. the energy product), that all but demands that the magnets be of the rare earth type (e.g. neodymium-iron-boron, NdFeB, or samarium-cobalt, SmCo).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

The objective of this topic is to develop an entirely new paradigm for the production of liquid fuels that could overcome the challenges associated with current technologies. Theoretically such an approach could be 10 times more efficient than current photosynthetic-biomass approaches to liquid fuel production.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Join the conversation at EV Daily on Facebook. That many vehicles per year is an improvement, but it's hardly true volume production. While there's no promise of a production version of it, Hyundai has turned more than one concept into an eventual publicly sold vehicle. Cheap New Method Reuses EV Batteries. TOP EV NEWS.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

The two main components—the electrochemical conversion hardware through which the fluids are flowed (which sets the peak power capacity) and the chemical storage tanks (which set the energy capacity)—may be independently sized. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries.

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MAY 17, 2023

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And so now, we’re seeing very cheap pieces of very effective silicon that you put right with a camera. And it’s really cheap.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

The basic concept of the integrated solar battery is to use the contribution of the photovoltage to reduce greatly the charging overpotential caused by the difficulty in efficiently electrochemically decomposing lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 ), the discharge product formed on the oxygen electrode. Their hybrid design uses only three.

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AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. Earlier post.). Robert Dorner. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap. This integrated design increases productivity and lowers equipment costs. But with the high cost of platinum, the team needed a catalyst that could lower production costs to around two dollars per kilogram of hydrogen. 9b02609.

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JUNE 4, 2015

The new C5 FUEL yeast delivers fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover, converting up to 97% of the plant sugars into fuel, the researchers said. —BESC Director Paul Gilna. —Kevin Wenger, executive vice president of Mascoma.

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