Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

These new magnets take advantage of a technique refined by Zhai and researchers at Advanced Conductor Technologies, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, in Tallahassee, Florida. Instead, you’re directly winding the conductor into the coil form. —Yuhu Zhai.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Arcadia connects renters and homeowners across the US to wind and solar energy through utility data and billing technology. In select markets within Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, Arcadia’s platform connects qualifying customers to community solar projects in their area.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

Vehicle technologies span a range from new Si/graphene Li-ion anode materials and composites for motor windings to diesel aftertreatment and advanced lubricants. of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, will develop a new exhaust after-treatment system using new low temperature catalysts. Lead organization. Description. nGimat LLC.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The Colorado State University forecast team predicts an above-average 2010 Atlantic basin hurricane season based on the premise that El Niño conditions will dissipate by this summer and that anomalously warm tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures will persist. Long-term averages are 9.6 named storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 Phil Klotzbach.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Starfire Energy, a Colorado-based developer of modular chemical plants for the carbon-free production of ammonia and hydrogen, has closed a major funding round. Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

In Colorado’s West Grand School District, electric school buses didn’t perform as well as their diesel counterparts. The town of Kremmling, Colorado is one of the coldest towns in the country, where high altitudes and northen winds combine to drive morning temperatures in the winter more than 30 degrees below zero.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

For those who don’t know, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is an annual event held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in which vehicles from around the world try to earn the fastest climb time by winding through 156 turns around a 12.42-mile The original Lightning is aerodynamic for a pickup.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2014

Carbon fiber can lower the cost and improve performance of fuel-efficient vehicles and renewable energy components such as wind turbine blades. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of Golden, Colorado will receive up to $5.3 The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $11.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2013

A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. Geothermal Power Generation Solar Wind'

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The goal at the race, which takes place on 24 June in Colorado Springs, CO, is to break the record in the class for electric prototypes, which currently stands at 8:57.118 minutes. During the winding 12.4-mile We could not manage this solely with the data from the wind tunnel, where it is not possible to recreate the thin air.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

In general, the researchers find that when air pollution is generated in one state, half of that pollution is lofted into the air and carried by winds across state boundaries, to affect the health quality of out-of-state residents and increase their risk of early death. That wasn’t really possible before. —Steven Barrett.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, Colorado, as the latest Energy Department user facility and the only one in the nation focused on utility-scale clean energy grid integration.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy. FibrTech; Global Wind Network (GLWN); Harper International; Hexagon Lincoln; Ingersoll Machine Tools; Interlaken Technology; International Fibers, Ltd.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

It then models technologies such as solar, wind, batteries, or combined heat and power (CHP), and calculates the optimal system configuration with the lowest cost. Based in Boulder, Colorado, HOMER Energy has more than 200,000 users in more than 190 countries.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The United States got the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado, and the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Instead, that pure status is now reserved above all for wind and solar. There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. ThermoCalc; TIMET; Trumpf, Inc.; UTRC; Wolf Robotics. Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.;

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is an annual event held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Vehicles from around the world compete to earn the fastest climb time by winding through 156 turns around a 12.42-mile mile route that climbs 4,725 feet to an altitude over 14,000 feet above sea level.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? What about the pitfalls with energy modeling?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2012

Rare earths and rare metals are critical inputs in existing and emerging applications including hybrid and electric vehicles and wind power turbines. Both independent analyses were done by SRK Consulting of Lakewood, Colorado, an industry mining consulting firm that specializes in such estimates. Molycorp, Inc. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

When we look at ways to efficiently store energy from wind and solar sources, lithium-based batteries are expensive and world-wide geological resources of lithium are actually quite limited. A team led by Sehee Lee at the University of Colorado Boulder will develop the new anode for the battery.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2020

As we transition away from fossil fuels in favor of solar and wind energy and electric vehicles, there will be big changes in ozone pollution. We can simulate those changes and project the effects on California’s most valuable crops. —lead author Chaopeng Hong, a UCI postdoctoral scholar in Earth system science.

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Electric Vehicles India

MAY 3, 2021

A Denver-Colorado based Bye Aerospace has unveiled an 8-seat all-electric twin turbo-prop-class airplane eFlyer 800 which aims at the air taxi, air cargo, regional and character aircraft markets. Bye Aerospace unveils all-electric airplane-eFlyer 800. Bye Aerospace.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

In this way, we simulated hundreds of different configurations before we tested a 1:2 model in the wind tunnel. R Pikes Peak rolled out of the paddock for the first test drive on the actual racetrack in Colorado was exciting for Ahrenholz and his team. —Benjamin Ahrenholz. The moment when the I.D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

Downforce has been increased with a new carbon cowl design and with wind-tunnel optimization of the spoiler and other detail shapes. Held annually in Colorado, the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an automobile and motorcycle hill climb. First run in 1916, the hill climb celebrates its 92 nd running this year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

Colorado State University. Colorado State University will develop a thermal energy storage system combined with partner ION Clean Energy’s flexible advanced solvent carbon capture technology. Synergistic Heat Pumped Thermal Storage and Flexible Carbon Capture System - $1,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Colorado State University will develop technology to reduce methane emissions from lean-burn natural gas engines by reducing methane ventilation through the crankcase. The burner will be incorporated into a new flare system design that is robust to cross winds and low load conditions which can lead to poor methane destruction efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Exascale Predictive Wind Plant Flow Physics Modeling, Steve Hammond (NREL) with SNL, ORNL, University of Texas Austin. High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, University of Colorado.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

Demand for rare earth magnets is being driven by electric vehicles (electric motors and batteries), wind generators (direct drive generators), medical devices (personal “vital signs” monitors and medical imaging machines), smart phones, and aerospace/defense applications, where high-performance in extreme conditions is important.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

Under an agreement in principle, subject to completion of definitive agreements, Colorado-based Energy Fuels will process natural monazite sands into an RE Carbonate beginning in March or April 2021 and ship a portion of that production to Neo’s rare earth separations facility in Sillamäe, Estonia (Silmet).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In a city, maybe only half the pollution comes from sources within the city itself—the rest will be transported there by the wind from other regions or even other countries. It is important to realize that action needs to be taken on all the major sources. That means that often regional cooperation is needed to solve the problem.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Many materials deemed critical by the DOE are used in modern clean energy technologies—such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy-efficient lighting. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Industry partners that have joined to help advance CMI developed technologies include General Electric; OLI Systems, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., The patterns of sea-level change are driven by the combined enhancement of two primary atmospheric wind patterns known as the Hadley circulation and the Walker circulation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. A new assessment conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has identified more than 65 gigawatts of untapped hydropower potential in US rivers and streams.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions. If a substantial amount of solar or wind energy is on the grid, customers would be able to save money by purchasing and storing electricity during low-rate times.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was the third lowest for that month in the satellite record, after 2007 and 2006, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado. The average rate of melt in July 2009 was nearly identical to that of the record melt of July 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Department of Defense is seeking to develop solar, wind, geothermal and other distributed energy sources on its bases both to reduce their $4 billion-a-year energy bill and to make them less dependent on the commercial electricity grid.

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