Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Energy-saving tips One action is to use less electricity, Rahman said, noting that dimming lights by 20 percent in homes, office buildings, hotels, and schools could save 10 percent of electricity. By better controlling lighting, heating, and cooling, 20 percent of energy could be saved without causing anyone to suffer, he said.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 21, 2022

The two project leaders— Masato Sagawa of Sumitomo and John Croat of GM—surprised each other by announcing their results at the same conference in Pittsburgh in 1983. The light rare earths lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, and neodymium constitute about 90 percent of the composition of a typical rare-earth deposit…. in November, 1983.

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General Motors North America Motors Motoring 143

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2021

The CVT on new Qashqai delivers the best of both worlds, offering seamless driving in the city and during light acceleration, combined with direct connected DCT-like d-step behavior during hard acceleration. On open, winding roads, e-Pedal provides a more engaging drive while reducing the need to depress the brake during cornering.

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Europe Nissan Power Powered 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This analysis, performed by PE International and Five Winds Strategic Consulting, is the most comprehensive and transparent comparative LCA ever conducted on aluminum and steel truck wheels, according to Alcoa. In Europe, these savings amount to more than 1,942 liters. Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Aluminum and Steel Truck Wheels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2012

During a press conference at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention in Orlando, Fla., Honda Aircraft Company has commenced production on the HondaJet business jet. Earlier post.)

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Honda Companies Production Taxi 230

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The emission reduction potential is most significant for light-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles, with other contributions coming from shipping, aviation and biofuels. GtCO 2 /year (light duty vehicles) by 2030. Fuel efficiency measures could potentially reduce emissions by 0.88 GtCO 2 /year (heavy-duty vehicles) and by 2.0

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At the 17 th Supercharging conference this week in Dresden, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what it says is the first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for “quasi-continuous” boosting of commercial diesel engines, including those developed for off highway applications. Cobra electric supercharger. Click to enlarge.

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Water Engine Commercial Diesel 370

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. uptake, and optimized light utilization. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2009

In light of the global financial crisis, it is crucial that every dollar is made to ‘multi-task’ to create a sustainable low-carbon economy. ”. Clean energy opportunities have the potential to generate significant economic returns.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Conference of Mayors Climate Action Agreement to honor or exceed the Kyoto Protocol, and where forward thinking policies have been adopted like Hermosa Beach’s recently passed rooftop wind ordinance. Harman with South Bay community leaders outside the Green Idea House home site of Robert and Monica Fortunato.

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Los Angeles Climate Emissions Climate Change 247

Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. For simplicity’s sake, let’s call these residential loads “devices,” which can range from lights and televisions to water heaters and air conditioners. unprecedented and deadly winter freeze.

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Power Grid Grid Power Powered 104

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 15, 2010

Bikes had their own express lanes, their own concrete lane barriers, their own street lights, their own place on subways, their own bus racks, their own hipster club parking spaces, their own prams, even their own kind of road-rage. Contrary to some reports, the Copenhagen Climate Conference was a great success. Change is happening.

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Los Angeles Denmark Al Gore CO2 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). CRI is presenting at the 4 th Conference on CO 2 as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers , being held at the end of September in Essen, Germany. Methanol in China.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Since its introduction, TTE has found a home in flight-critical aircraft systems, NASA spacecraft, and power-generating wind turbines, to name a few. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy conference in May 2023. The consequences for such systems of a TTE network falling out of sync would be understandably catastrophic.

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2008 Standards Wind All-Electric 95

Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Energy experts have been warning that electricity is likely to get more expensive and less reliable unless renewable power that waxes and wanes under inconstant sunlight and wind is backed up by generators that can run whenever needed.

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Power Powered Solar Fusion 130

Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Dennis Whyte [left], the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ CEO, Bob Mumgaard, confer in CFS’s test hall, where the startup built and tested its first magnet. The team kept the magnet energized in a steady state for about 5 hours. “We

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Fusion Molten Salt MIT Building 98

Baua Electric

APRIL 2, 2024

There’s also a section on how pilots are trained to deal with various scenarios — including cabin depressurization, malfunctioning landing gear, holes in the fuselage and sudden gusts of wind on the runway that force what is called a “go-around” — when a pilot suddenly aborts the landing and sends the plane barreling straight back into the sky.

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Alaska Charlotte Engine Houston 52

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished. He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “[I] Second Sight began with a flash of light. It wasn’t her phone battery running out.

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New York City New York 2020 Companies 145

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Being connected will enable them to make the most of this extra time by providing them with access to new in-car services such as video-conferences, on-line shopping, travel information and more. Not only will autonomous driving enhance safety but it will also free up time for drivers. —Carlos Ghosn, CEO Renault. Connectivity.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Davide’s drones rely primarily on computer vision, and he’s also been exploring potential drone applications for a special kind of camera called an event camera , which is ideal for fast motion under challenging lighting conditions. So I’ve watched many of your previous tech talks and also interacted with you guys at conferences.

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Standards Wind Universal Ukraine 81

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Replacing incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs. (4) Example: a regulated entity may purchase offsets generated through the development of a wind farm in a nation that has not established GHG emissions targets. United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. 2) Examples of Renewable Energy Projects.

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Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Whether we’re reducing wind drag, eliminating engine-driven power steering pumps or switching to low-friction engine oil, this attention to every detail and these small improvements collectively deliver significant fuel economy gains for our customers. Kapp, presentation at “Focus on the Future” Automotive Research Conference, U.

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Fuel Economy Economy Ford Downsizing 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

The goal is to design a city that “ is completely sustainable, to be completely self sufficient, to be able to live on its own produced energy from the sun, the wind, of processing its own waste ” according to Guala. The upper level will be for pedestrians and light weight vehicles like bicycles, Segways and electric bicycles.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The orchestration level entails the evolution from synchronized traffic lights to dynamically adjusted traffic lights to advanced mapping services that route cars around traffic jams. Directed EMF beams might cause a short circuit on sensitive electronics, and lasers or bright lights might confuse or destroy camera sensors.

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Building UAE Universal Design 120

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit. Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of. 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. Of all the frauds that have come to light, none can match the brazen theatricality of the scam allegedly pulled off by superlawyer Marc Dreier. " When he got back to the U.S.,

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. We are facing a big problem with global warming.

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