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Project shows maritime fuel cell generator can increase energy efficiency by up to 30% at part load; reliability and cost issues

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Project goals were to demonstrate the use of the generator in the maritime environment, identify areas requiring additional research and development, analyze the business case, and address regulatory and other market barriers. A recent project demonstrated a 100 kW fuel cell generator with 72 kg of hydrogen storage for marine applications.

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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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million square kilometers in the Pacific Ocean roughly 500 miles south of Hawaii. The study provides an in-depth comparison of the cradle-to-gate impacts of producing metals from land ores and polymetallic nodules, both sources of the nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese required to build one billion EV batteries.

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Researchers Demonstrate Electrochemical Route for Reversible Generation of Aluminum Hydride for Hydrogen Storage

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To avoid the concern of Al and AlH 3 oxidizing in an aqueous environment, the researchers use non-aqueous electrolytes. By comparison, other work has shown that chemically recycling AlH 3 by splitting LiCl requires a minimum of 70% of fuel energy for regeneration.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. and Toronto, Ont., Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp.,

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Renesas Electronics develops two-port on-chip SRAM for improved video processing for autonomous vehicles

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Technology that uses video data from vehicle cameras to recognize the peripheral environment and the driver in order to provide accurate information to the driver has grown in importance. Renesas presented the results of its work on the new SRAM technology at VLSI Symposia 2016 in Hawaii.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. It is alarming to see comparisons of the Chevrolet Volt PHEV with battery electric cars when the comparison focuses only on the electric range and ignores the other important differences. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2.

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