Ceramic-Coated Tesla Cybertruck Beads Water, Is Easier To Keep Clean
InsideEVs
MARCH 25, 2024
Here's how to prep and apply a special ceramic coating to achieve water beads.
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Green Car Congress
MAY 10, 2023
million to 10 industry-led projects to advance nuclear technologies, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy. Westinghouse Electric Company, Front-End Engineering Designs and Investigative Studies for Integrating Commercial Electrolysis Hydrogen Production with Selected Light-Water Reactors.
Electrek
AUGUST 4, 2023
Italian renewables giant Enel Green Power and Sicily-based robotic tech startup Reiwa have developed a robot that automatically cleans solar panels without using water or gas. moreā¦ The post This automated solar-powered robot can clean solar panels without water appeared first on Electrek.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 22, 2021
Audi has included the economical and efficient use of water as a key aspect of its Mission:Zero environmental program. The company plans to keep its own water consumption to a minimum and stop using drinking water in vehicle production in the future. Drinking water is a valuable and scarce resource: 2.2
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2023
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a novel process to clean coal mine drainage and extract rare-earth elements from it. The TEP process uses the alkalinity and filtering capacity of stabilized flue gas desulfurization (sFGD) material or water treatment plant (WTP) sludge to remediate CMD waters and extract REEs.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2021
A study by a team of researchers from Technische UniversitƤt Berlin (TUB) and Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has found that direct seawater splitting for hydrogen production has substantial drawbacks compared to conventional water splitting and offers almost no advantage. Additionally, H 2 O is needed for water splitting.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2023
million Series A financing led by bp ventures, with additional investors including Clean Energy Ventures, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and GVP Climate. The new capital will help catalyze Advanced Ionicsā growth and facilitate the initial deployment of its water vapor electrolyzer technology for heavy industry.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 24, 2020
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. Qian Wang et al.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 31, 2020
In order to advance its fleet electrification and emissions reduction goals, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) has deployed six new XL plug-in hybrid electric Ford F-150 pickup trucks to its fleet. The fund was developed to help public fleets incorporate cleaner fuels and technologies into their operations.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2021
million to 16 water infrastructure projects. Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2021
million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and support DOEās recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative ( earlier post ) to reduce the cost and accelerate breakthroughs in the clean hydrogen sector. Clean hydrogen production, including biological and electrochemical approaches.
Electrek
MARCH 30, 2023
If you see this shark heading toward you with an open mouth, donāt worry ā itās designed to catch plastic and other waste that destroys the water and its inhabitants rather than swimmers. moreā¦ The post Meet the WasteShark: An electric catamaran that eats plastic and cleans the water appeared first on Electrek.
Energy Institute at HAAS
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Changing rules have altered which energy developments are subject to the Clean Water … Continue Reading Federal Swings in Water Regulations Dramatically Changed Policy for Energy Projects This weekās blog post is coauthored with Hannah Druckenmiller, Simon Greenhill, David A. Keiser, and Sherrie Wang.
Green Car Congress
JULY 27, 2018
thyssenkrupp recently introduced industrial-scale water electrolysis for large projects. By splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, this technology delivers āgreenā hydrogen, a clean, CO 2 -free energy carrier. The only inputs needed are water and renewable electricity from wind, hydro power or photovoltaics.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) to lead a US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy-Water Desalination Hub that will address water security issues in the United States. This suite of technologies will treat ānon-traditionalā water sources for multiple end-use applications.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 1, 2020
Researchers at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology are developing a new method to dissociate water vapor into hydrogen gas by microwave-generated plasma (plasmolysis). Hydrogen production has become the center of attention for carbon-free solution, and more attention has been given to clean methods of hydrogen production.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2023
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $42 million in funding for 22 projects to advance critical technologies for producing, storing, and deploying clean hydrogen. They will support DOEās H2@Scale initiative, which aims to augment the affordable production, transport, storage, and utilization of clean hydrogen.
Green Car Congress
MAY 23, 2022
is evaluating Geismar, LA as the site to build the worldās largest clean ammonia facility. Building on the companyās expertise in low-carbon ammonia production, clean ammonia will be manufactured using innovative technology to achieve at least a 90% reduction in CO 2 emissions. Canada-based Nutrien Ltd. Source: Nutrien.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting, which relies on sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, stands out as potentially one of the most sustainable routes to clean energy. PEC water-splitting was first noted in scientific publications in 1972. Photoelectrodes have demonstrated efficiencies from 10% to 20%.
Electrek
MARCH 14, 2022
Dust on solar panels reduces their output significantly, so they need to be kept clean. The post Scientists figured out a way to clean dust off of solar panels without using water appeared first on Electrek. But whatās the best way to do that?
Green Car Congress
JUNE 7, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a Notice of Intent (NOI) ( DE-FOA-0002768 ) to fund the Bipartisan Infrastructure Lawās (BIL) $8-billion program to develop regional clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) across America. Can be developed into a national clean hydrogen network to facilitate a clean hydrogen economy.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The material is a hydrogel, a polymer network that naturally retains a lot of water.
Green Car Congress
MAY 29, 2020
A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to clean up oil spills inexpensively and efficiently without harming marine life. —Vikas Nandwana.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 24, 2022
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $40 million in funding to advance the development and deployment of clean hydrogen technologies. Areas of interest in support of Hydrogen Shot include: HydroGEN: Solar Fuels from Photoelectrochemical and Solar Thermochemical Water Splitting. DE-FOA-0002792 ).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 26, 2023
Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have demonstrated the first visible-light photoelectrochemical system for water splitting using TiO 2 enhanced with cobalt. The proposed approach is simple and represents a stepping stone in the quest to achieve affordable water splitting to produce hydrogen. —Prof.
Green Car Congress
JULY 9, 2021
Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., to bolster their efforts to usher in a global hydrogen society through cost-effective production of clean hydrogen.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy will work with Idaho National Laboratory to demonstrate a system that uses a nuclear plantās steam and electricity to split water. —Richard Boardman, national technical lead for the DOE Light Water Reactor Sustainability Programās Flexible Plant Operations and Generation Pathway. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JULY 6, 2020
thyssenkruppās proprietary water electrolysis technology for the production of. conducted the necessary tests jointly in an existing water electrolysis plant operating as part of the Carbon2Chem project ( earlier post ) in Duisburg. green hydrogen meets the requirements for participation in the primary control reserve market.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 3, 2020
Koreaās Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have developed a novel process for the production of hydrogen using various types of biomass, including lignin, as an efficient alternative to water oxidation as an electron source. Conventionally, water is considered a cheap and clean source of electrons; 2H 2 O ?
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. This first prototype achieved 70% of the performance that is obtained when an equivalent device is filled with water.
CleanTechnica EVs
AUGUST 7, 2022
Whenever a furnace or water heater or gas burning car is replaced with a clean electric alternative, it builds a piece of our new clean energy system and helps slow devastating climate impacts.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2021
Herein, we are aiming to construct a dual-functional photocatalyst system which can degrade pollutants and simultaneously split water to generate hydrogen. Harnessing the sunās energy to split water to make hydrogen fuel is a promising renewable resource, but it is a slow process even when catalysts are used to speed it along.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2022
Researchers in China report using air oxidationāwater leaching to recover lithium selectively from spent LiFePO 4 (LFP) material, in which the high leaching efficiency of lithium and the good separation effect of lithium and iron were achieved simultaneously. An open-access paper on their work is published in the RSC journal Green Chemistry.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Berlin-based Graforce Hydro GmbH, the developer of a plasma electrolyzer—the Plasmalyzer —is applying its technology for the highly efficient generation of hydrogen from industrial waste water. The technology weāve developed is capable of cleaning wastewater and producing a low-cost, low-emission fuel from it.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Aker Clean Hydrogen, a global integrated clean hydrogen, ammonia and methanol producer, and Kuehne+Nagel, the worldās largest sea logistics provider, are partnering to decarbonize the maritime logistics sector by offering green container transport. —Knut Nyborg, Chief Executive Officer of Aker Clean Hydrogen.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2019
In addition to having access to QuĆ©becās vast water resources to generate green, renewable power at competitive prices, Hydro-QuĆ©bec has everything it needs to support the development of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen, is produced through the electrolysis of water rather than from methane, a process that produces high levels of GHG emissions.
Clean Fleet Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
As we navigate these turbulent waters, it’s imperative to dissect the multifaceted challenges and strides being made in the realm of EV safety and shipping. The post Navigating the Waters of EV Safety and Shipping first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 3, 2012
a clean water company that recovers phosphorus and nitrogen from industrial and municipal wastewaters to create premium fertilizers, completed a US$14.5-million Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., million private equity financing. a fund managed by FourWinds Capital Management.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2019
Researchers from the US Department of Energyās (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have combined two membrane-bound protein complexes to perform a complete conversion of water molecules to hydrogen and oxygen. Poluektov (2018) āZ-scheme solar water splitting via self-assembly of photosystem I-catalyst hybrids in thylakoid membranesā Chem.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 18, 2020
The West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative , a study commissioned by a collaboration among nine electric utilities and two agencies representing more than two dozen municipal utilities, recommends adding electric vehicle charging for freight haulers and delivery trucks at 50-mile intervals along Interstate 5 and adjoining highways.
CleanTechnica EVs
OCTOBER 6, 2023
A common critique of the āelectrify everythingā movement is that it will be near impossible to produce enough clean electricity to replace the fossil fuels used in buildings and transportation and make sure the grid is strong enough to deliver it. While this concern is valid, there is an important card humanity has in its […]
Green Car Congress
MARCH 5, 2015
million Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) ( DE-FOA-0001285 ) for a new technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) that addresses water-related aspects of energy production and use. It builds on the contents of The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenge and Opportunities, which DOE issued in June 2014.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2017
The systemās electric power and water consumption were each cut by. The first EcoCFlex unit for cleaning and deburring engine components went into service at the BMW Group in 2005. However, 30 first-generation units of this flexible cleaning machine are still in use at Steyr. Water consumption in particular was too.
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