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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

International technology company Semcon is collaborating with Hystar , a Norwegian company that has developed a novel PEM electrolysis technology, to increase the amount of hydrogen gas that can be produced through electrolysis by more than 150% compared to current electrolyzer technology without using more energy.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

At the upcoming IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will present a modular battery concept for the efficient operation of an electric bus; an electric city bus demonstrator will illustrate the concept. This is possible because of an adaptable connection concept.

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JUNE 6, 2015

Empa, ETH Zürich and the road sweeper manufacturer Bucher Municipal have jointly developed a pioneering hybrid-electric powertrain for road sweepers in a CTI (Switzerland’s Commission for Technology and Innovation) project. The concept is based on a natural gas-driven engine, which provides power to the electric motors.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The concept consists of a large-scale floating wind turbine (nominally 10 MW) with an integrated water treatment unit and electrolyzers for localized hydrogen production. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. This funding will enable the detailed design of a 2 MW prototype system. million (US$3.6

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

The US Department of Energy is awarding more than $7 million to fund four 3-year projects in California, Washington and Oregon to advance hydrogen storage technologies to be used in fuel-cell-electric vehicles. The selected organizations will provide close to $2 million in cost share. HRL Laboratories, LLC, up to $1.2

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

WattPeople , a venture of THE FUNK HAUS, introduced a new interactive web application at SXSW Eco to help consumers assess the financial impact of the “SolarEV Bundle” concept, an integrated transaction in which consumers purchase a solar power system and an electric vehicle. —WattPeople co-founder Rainer Boelzle.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The FT-CH concept. Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA unveiled the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. By far, the single most successful example of this has been the gas-electric hybrid. Click to enlarge. The CH stands for compact hybrid as in compact class.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

So to help bring the cost of space-based astronomy down, researchers at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa are working on a way to process starlight on a tiny optical chip. That’s where Cheriton aims to boldly go with a PIC filter that detects very subtle gas signatures during an exoplanet “eclipse” called a transit.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Projects will work to lower emissions by leading the expansion of EV charging stations to facilitate the transition from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles. Fiscal Year 2021 Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Vehicle Technologies RD&D DE-FOA-0002475. AOI 3: Reducing the Cost of DC Fast Charging Equipment. Federal share.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sales of plug-in vehicles (PEVs) in 2013 will continue to outpace the first years of hybrid vehicle sales as more than 210,000 PEVs will be sold globally and more than three dozen PEV models will debut, according to a year-end free whitepaper published by Pike Research, that makes 10 specific predictions about electric vehicles in 2013.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Project VGV uses surplus electricity generated by renewable and nuclear sources to produce hydrogen via electrolysis. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 12, 2018

The increased carbon efficiency is possible because the water gas shift reaction is avoided and instead a reversed water gas shift is introduced to convert CO 2 to CO. Energy flow of the staged PBtL concept. The required electrical power for the extra production is estimated to be 11.6?kWh with the same amount of biomass.

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JUNE 23, 2011

The concept of the Ricardo Split-Cycle engine. The recuperated engine uses isothermal compression via cryogenic injection to enable significant exhaust to compressed gas heat transfer. Recuperator to transfer heat from exhaust gas to compressed air. The IsoEngine concept. Source: Neville Jackson. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

Bollinger Motors has unveiled its DELIVER-E all-electric delivery van concept. The DELIVER-E leverages the engineering, technology, and components used in the company’s product portfolio to deploy an electric van tailored for the delivery market.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

The cost of producing electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar has been falling for several years. The report calculates the cost of producing electricity from different types of new power plants. The report calculates the cost of producing electricity from different types of new power plants.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Forth and Mobility Development Group are creating a national partnership to launch the Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP), which will establish electric vehicle (EV) carsharing based at affordable housing sites in at least five states over the next two years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Austria-based oil and gas company OMV opened the first public hydrogen filling station in Vienna, Austria. OMV has been researching the alternative drive concept for vehicles with hydrogen and fuel cells for several years. Compared with conventional filling stations, this would mean a reduction in energy costs of around 50%.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

We have therefore developed a hydrogen combustion engine that aims to match the power and torque of current high-performance gasoline engines as a concept study. On the other hand, however, the lower exhaust gas temperatures result in a lack of energy for their propulsion on the exhaust side. —Vincenzo Bevilacqua.

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MARCH 2, 2019

million) This topic includes multiple sub-topics, including novel materials for high-density gas storage and transport, advanced waste to energy technologies, and technology integration that focus on lowering the cost of and overcoming technical barriers to the use of medium- and heavy-duty natural gas and hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While battery-electric vehicles can be used efficiently and in an eco-friendly way in urban areas, fuel cell technology offers an attractive approach when it comes to emission-free logistics over long distances and with higher payloads. A battery-powered electric drive may also require concessions in terms of payload, Freudenberg says.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Fuel cell electric vehicles will be in our future sooner than many people believe, and in much greater numbers than anyone expected. ”. Increasing the voltage has made it possible to reduce the size of the motor and the number of fuel cells, leading to a smaller system offering enhanced performance at reduced cost. We love batteries.

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JULY 8, 2011

This broad concept the basis of what they call the Methanol Economy. The Haber-Bosch process provides ammonia by chemical synthesis using atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen generated from any source, presently mostly natural gas but eventually by water electrolysis or splitting. It is based on the chemical anthropogenic carbon cycle.

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JULY 26, 2012

The oxy-combustion process replaces the air used for combustion with a mixture of oxygen and recycled plant emissions (flue gas) and/or water for temperature control. The new selections announced today are part of a two-phase effort to evaluate and develop advanced oxy-combustion projects that yield cost-competitive options for CCUS.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Based on the interim results of a new study, MIT researchers are warning smaller nations to proceed with caution in pursuing the development of their natural gas resources. The interim report analyzed the economics of natural gas project development options in Cyprus with a focus on exports. —Sergey Paltsev. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2011

Valued at approximately $67 million (including $15 million in non-federal cost sharing) over four years, the overall goal of the research is to develop CO 2 capture and separation technologies that can achieve at least 90’ CO 2 removal at no more than a 35’ increase in the cost of electricity.

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APRIL 16, 2021

The funding will support the next stage of the SuperTruck initiatives—aimed at electrifying freight trucking—along with efforts to expand electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure and lower emissions for on- and off-road vehicles. Low Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Technologies Funding Opportunity. SuperTruck 3 Funding Opportunity.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

This lowers the system cost of what is essentially an electrolysis process. Self-contained sunlight-driven water-splitting technology—“artificial photosynthesis”—typically produces hydrogen and oxygen gas bubbles in the same reactor. This hydrogen-oxygen gas mixture is potentially explosive and must be quickly separated.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The selected projects will focus on developing carbon capture technologies that can achieve at least 90% CO 2 removal and reduce the added costs at power plants with carbon capture systems to no more than a 35% increase in the cost of electricity produced at the plant. DOE share: $1,999,693; recipient share: $500,000.

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APRIL 8, 2014

DOE will continue to focus on significantly increasing the amount of cost-competitive electric power from renewable resources across the nation by further accelerating the development and commercialization of these technologies. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Projects will address one or more R&D categories, including: Technologies, materials, and superconducting-magnet and fuel-cycle subsystems between the fusion plasma and balance of plant; Cost-effective, high-efficiency, high-duty-cycle, electrical-driver technologies; and. University of California, San Diego. Colorado School of Mines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

California’s current strategy of recovering a myriad of fixed costs in electricity usage rates must change as the state uses more renewable electricity to power buildings and vehicles, according to the findings from a new report from the Energy Institute at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and non-profit think tank Next 10.

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MAY 20, 2022

million in funding for six research and development projects to support the advancement of clean hydrogen for electricity generation. This includes improving capture of CO 2 associated with hydrogen production from carbon-based resources and technologies to use hydrogen in gas turbines more efficiently for electricity generation.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

REBELS addresses these challenges by developing innovative, low-cost distributed generation technologies using electrochemical power generation that can also act as a storage device, or, potentially as a means to generate liquid fuels—essentially, electrochemical gas-to-liquids (GTL). DE-FOA-0001026 ). Categories Of Interest.

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JULY 17, 2013

Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Schematics of technology areas addressed by the FOCUS FOA.

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