Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. Image credit: Courtesy of H. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney). —Kuang et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The improved catalyst has already released four times the amount of hydrogen ever produced by MoS 2 from water. The idea was to understand the changes in the molecular structure of molybdenum disulfide, so that it can be a better catalyst for hydrogen production: closer to platinum in efficiency, but earth-abundant and cheap.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Their journey began with a question posed by its founders, Tommi Eronen and Markku Ylönen, when they were university classmates: “Is it possible to build an energy-self-sufficient and cost-effective hippie commune for engineers using only solar power?” There is only so much heat you can add to water before it becomes steam,” says Eronen.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Assistant Professor, Florida State University.

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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. With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But right now we’ve got some distance to go with any of these ideas. And again, scientists look to what they’ve observed before when arriving at these ideas. So those are the kinds of questions that they would like to study before they would say, “Oh yes, we know this is a good idea, or we know this is a bad idea.”

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” It started out as a means of running Amazon’s own platform and has since grown into a company that offers similar services to other companies and even university researchers.

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