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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Universality In the U.S., With technological advancements, we can now convert various primary energies into electricity more flexibly and efficiently, providing a cleaner and more efficient energy supply chain for electric cars. Electricity is abundant, relatively cheap, and can be easily delivered to any place with a plug.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Illustration of a novel room-temperature process to remove CO 2 by converting the molecule into CO. In the presence of the graphite, aided by the energy derived from the plasmons, carbon dioxide molecules (black dot bonded to two red dots) are converted to carbon monoxide (black dot bonded to one red dot. Credit: NIST.

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MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). Scientists have long sought a way to convert CO 2 to CO, but traditional electrocatalysts cannot effectively initiate the reaction. Single atoms of nickel, however, produce a different result.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. For the palladium to do its job, the bio-oil needs to flow past it during processing. —B.K.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process for the production of branched C 7 –C 10 hydrocarbons in the gasoline volatility range from biomass-derived levulinic acid with good yield, operating under relatively mild conditions, with short reaction times. Source: Mascal et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

A team at Rice University has engineered E. coli bacteria to convert glucose into succinic acid in a way that would be competitive with petroleum-based production. coli bacteria to produce succinate (an ester of succinic acid) from soybean mash. A paper describing their work was published in the journal Bioresource Technology.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. volts to –0.5?volts

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MARCH 25, 2024

Paul Kohl, Georgia Institute of Technology At the battery seminar, Wright showed off a BAT300 test channel designed to convert a 400 or 800 volt direct current down to a 10 volt current for cell formation or cell testing. “Battery companies have expended enormous effort on predictive modeling.”

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). —Karl Kreder.

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JUNE 9, 2014

In 2009, ARPA-E began its electrofuels program ( earlier post ) , providing $49 million in funding to 11 academic institutions and an additional two companies to develop microbial organisms capable of converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

But a new generation of TEGs uses cheaper, less toxic materials that convert both heat and kinetic energy to electricity with greater efficiency than earlier versions. Thermoelectric generators, or TEGs, have, in fact, been around for a while.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Their study is published in the 12 Feb.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Now, aluminum is increasingly important in electronics, particularly as a “green” component that’s cheap, widely available and environmentally benign. The research was made possible, in part, by collaboration between chemists at OSU and the University of Oregon, through the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. Wills, Lev N.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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MAY 26, 2015

Global Bioenergies, founded in 2008, has developed a synthetic isobutene pathway that, when implanted in a micro-organism, enables the organism to convert sugars (e.g., The process to convert isobutene to isooctane is well-established. So here our isobutene would allow us to integrate this very cheap fossil component into the fuel.

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MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and the California Institute of Technology has developed an active and durable earth-abundant transition metal dichalcogenide-based hybrid catalyst for water-splitting that exhibits high hydrogen evolution activity approaching the state-of-the-art platinum catalysts.

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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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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel strategy to improve the efficiency and performance of non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries. During the charging process, the reduced form of the redox shuttle, M red , is first converted to M ox on the oxygen electrode, which in turn oxidizes the Li 2 O 2.

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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. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes.

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APRIL 23, 2022

There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. There it is converted into instructions for the printer by the PostScript interpreter, software resident in ROM.

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. Director, Manufacturing Research Center, Western Michigan University. Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. Member States,” says geographer. Social scientist. In 2019, human rights lawyers. took a case against the E.U.

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AUGUST 25, 2012

Thus, economically viable biodiesel conversion technology must be developed and implemented.Although these catalysts [for transesterification] are relatively cheap, they are very sensitive to FFAs and the water content in oils, since the side reactions of saponification and hydrolysis, respectively, can occur. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with colleagues from Oregon State University, have developed PNNL a durable, inexpensive molybdenum-phosphide catalyst that efficiently converts wastewater and seawater into hydrogen. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Customers could convert U.S. dollars into amazons—and, at least for the time being, they could convert them back, on demand, at a 1:1 exchange rate, perhaps for a small fee. The amazons could be converted frictionlessly into dollars. I like Bezos bucks or BBs , but that might be a bridge too far, even for Jeff Bezos.)

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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. The results were presented at the 31 st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop this week in Minneapolis.

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MAY 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Exeter (UK) have developed a novel p-type LaFeO 3 photoelectrode using an inexpensive and scalable spray pyrolysis method. The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has adapted the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system for use in a yeast strain that can produce useful lipids and polymers. Genome engineering of Yarrowia lipolytica has created strains that convert sugars to lipid that make up >90% of their dry cell weight. Until now, Y.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Two chemists at Brown University have streamlined the conversion of waste vegetable oil (WVO) into biodiesel, eliminating the need for corrosive chemicals to perform the reactions. The reaction is complete when all of the molecules have been converted into smaller components known as fatty acid esters.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Hydrogen’s fuel-path inefficiency problems are also discussed in another paper by Tom Baxter of Aberdeen University, “ Hydrogen cars won’t overtake electric vehicles because they’re hampered by the laws of science ” [10].

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AUGUST 16, 2009

Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel. This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca. Robert Dorner. Scott Shaw. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials.

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JANUARY 26, 2006

In the 1990s, as a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of California here, Dr. Frank produced another shocker. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

However, to provide constant and stable power on demand, it is necessary to convert sunlight into an energy storage medium. The authors acknowledge funding from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley. Type II band alignment allows electron transfer from BiVO 4 to TiO 2.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 Our cell could make for a straightforward, robust overall system that uses cheap stainless steel to make interconnectors. —Ben deGlee, co-author.

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