Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The US Department of Energy will invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas, one of which is developing an effective solar energy to chemical fuel conversion system—i.e.,

Solar

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2015

The latest version of the MYPP presents a merged conversion R&D section; the renaming of the demonstration and market transformation area; and emerging work in wet waste-to-energy feedstocks. R&D on biomass conversion technologies. Key components of the portfolio include: R&D on sustainable, high-quality feedstock supply systems.

Waste

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2017

The report provides an overview of the current state of alternative aviation fuels, as reported in findings by recent working groups, and also presents findings from the Alternative Aviation Fuel Workshop hosted by BETO in September 2016. Unlike other liquid fuels (e.g., Catalytic hydrotreating of lipids (catalytic hydrothermolysis [CH]).

Commercial

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

Schematic of the potential conversion routes for whole algae into biofuels. The Algal Roadmap resulted from a two-day Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap Workshop conducted by DOE 9-10 December 2008 at the University of Maryland. Schematic of the various conversion strategies of algal extracts into biofuels. Conversion to Fuels.

Conversion

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

Energy loss that occurs during power conversion is equivalent to the daily output of 318 coal plants, and costs the US economy $40 billion per year. To tackle that problem, Transphorm is commercializing a high-voltage normally off GaN solution. At APEC, startup Transphorm Inc. Our goal is to build [Transphorm] to be a legacy company.

DC

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The Partnership will be holding a stakeholder workshop in late November to move the. The workshop will also provide the opportunity to connect with and influence the future work program of the LowCVP’s Commercial Vehicle Working Group, which will drive forward these and other initiatives in the freight decarbonization area.

Emissions

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2017

The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production. Background.

Oil

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

These R&D needs were explored at the 2008 National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap Workshop. DOE suggests that successful Algal Biofuel Consortia will take a research and development approach to investigate the potential for algae to commercially produce a variety of biofuels, such as renewable gasoline, diesel or jet fuel.

Renewable

Green Car Congress

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.

Engine

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

As FCEVs become increasingly commercially available, the Energy Department is focused on reducing the costs and increasing technical advancements of critical hydrogen infrastructure including production, delivery, and storage. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA) released a report assessing market-ready technologies being commercialized by suppliers of emission control and efficiency components for heavy-duty diesel vehicles to meet lower intermediate standards for oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) by 2024 as a transition to final standards in 2027.

Standards

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Energy Commission held three public workshops throughout California to. the following: fuel cells using renewable fuels; geothermal; small hydroelectric (30 megawatts or less); ocean wave; ocean thermal; tidal current; photovoltaic (PV); solar thermal; wind; biomass digester gas; municipal solid waste conversion (non-combustion thermal.

Hydrogen

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

Novozymes launched two major products—Fortiva and Innova Force—during the Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo (FEW) to continue supporting the growth of the renewable fuel industry. This latest technology from Novozymes outpaces all other liquefaction technologies for input conversion and process efficiency.

Production

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

Because ethanol-based ATJ-SPK can use ethanol produced from any feedstock, using any conversion technology, approval of ethanol in ASTM D7566 Annex A5, means that sustainable aviation fuel can be produced anywhere around the globe, from available environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable feedstocks in each region.

Fuel

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Education and outreach workshops for petroleum reduction fuels and technologies. A range of off-road/non-road commercial work alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicles. The other areas of interest include: Refueling Infrastructure for alternative fuels. Incremental cost of dedicated alternative fuel vehicles.

Stimulus

Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

Our relationship started about a month ago when we spent an evening together carpooling to a UCLA workshop on communication climate change that we both participated in. United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union, Local 324, AFL-CIO) I was big on bringing the environmentalists and the labor unions together.

Light

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

The LTA-SOFC was able to convert the biodiesel to electricity at commercially viable power densities, i.e., greater than 100 mW cm -2. cell and stack (2005-2006) achieved a power density of 40 mW cm -2 by direct JP-8 conversion to electricity. Liquid Tin Anode Fuel Cell Direct Coal Power Generation (10 th Annual SECA Workshop).

Bentley

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2009

The commercial viability of algae-based biofuels production is ultimately going to depend on economics. Large-scale commercial algae ventures focused solely on biofuels will have a VERY difficult time overcoming capital and O&M cost hurdles required of the marketplace for quite some time. Key Takeaways.

Installation

Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

OBE believes they will be one of the first commercial-scale renewable fuel producers to petition for an advanced biofuel designation from the EPA. Green Car Congress recently had a quick conversation with John Warren, Director of Government Relations & Project Development for Osage Bio Energy in Glen Allen, VA.

Energy

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

Alternative Fuels

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. We thought,” Hoff told Spectrum , “we could integrate this, the analog-to-digital conversion, on a chip, and then use these circuits as the basis for switching.” While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

IDEA

Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While we remain committed to commercialization, we will approach it within a thoughtful and achievable time frame—with safety as our north star. This reflects our new future and a more deliberate go-to-market path, meaning less immediate need for field, commercial operations and corporate staffing.

San Francisco

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The challenge for TAE, as for all other companies trying to build commercial fusion reactors, was how to heat, contain, and control the plasma long enough to achieve real energy output, without damaging its machine. Powerful magnets compressed the combined plasma rings, with the goal of fusing the hydrogen and producing energy.

Fusion

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Similar mismatches between climate policy desires and an energy infrastructure incapable of supporting those policies will play out across not only in the United States but elsewhere in one form or another over the next two decades as conversion to EVs and electric appliances moves to scale.

Grid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

PHEV conversions are emerging at a frenzied rate (see the frequency of CalCars-News postings), to the point where its no longer feasible to track every instance of a PHEV. In short: Many automakers have built PHEVs in private workshops, and DaimlerChrysler has publicly tested PHEV prototypes.

Plug-in

Charged EVs

MAY 3, 2023

Frank Menchaca: SAE is the oldest and largest technical society for engineers in the aerospace, commercial vehicle and automotive areas, founded in 1905 by Henry Ford and merged in 1915 with the Society of Aeronautic Engineers under the suggestion of Orville Wright. Frank Menchaca: Yeah. We’re involved in that.

Standards

Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2022

Raibert: Boston Dynamics is really starting to be successful doing commercial stuff, and that’s not my long suit. And I don’t think the lay public understands how stupid robots are compared to people—a person could come into my workshop and I could show them how to do almost any task, and within 15 minutes, they’d be doing it.

Boston

Electric Auto Association

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We provide Energy Efficiency Service and Products for New Development and Retrofits for both Residential and Commercial business. It really takes a conversation to convince a lot of people. And I want to introduce our own "Introduction to Electric vehicles" course or workshop for newbies.

Arkansas

Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

National Bureau of Standards and Norman Meisner at Mitre , a federally funded R&D organization, arranged a series of workshops in early 1979 to explore “Local Area Network Protocols.” In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Lynch led the planning of a workshop in Monterey, Calif.,

Connected

Cars That Think

JUNE 23, 2024

His innovations, which made silicon carbide semiconductor devices more efficient and more reliable and thus helped make them commercially viable, have had a significant impact on modern technology. Conversely, the atomic arrangement of p -type crystals’ contains positively charged holes. at Kyoto University in 1990. “I

Power