Remove Conference Remove Maryland Remove Parts Remove Store
article thumbnail

U. Maryland and Redox Power partnering to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for distributed generation and transportation

Green Car Congress

Redox Power’s 25 kW “Cube” sitting outside a conference room. The fuel cells, based upon patented technology developed by professor Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) in the A. University of Maryland Professor Eric Wachsman describes how solid oxide fuel cells work.

Maryland 296
article thumbnail

Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

When I decided to trade my advocacy pro bono work for the action work I now do at EcoMedia I knew my world was about to change but I wasn’t prepared for the top-to-bottom overhaul in store for me. I have shaken hands with the whirlwind.

Al Gore 247
article thumbnail

Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained.

Light 52
article thumbnail

Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

When I decided to trade my advocacy pro bono work for the action work I now do at EcoMedia I knew my world was about to change but I wasn’t prepared for the top-to-bottom overhaul in store for me. I have shaken hands with the whirlwind.

Al Gore 150
article thumbnail

Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

Green Car Congress

Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. A paper describing the basics of BChain was published in 2014 the Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems.

Davis 186
article thumbnail

The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

Cars That Think

Naval Ordnance Laboratory , in Maryland, had figured out how to manufacture this alloy, which was soon marketed by an outfit called Arnold Engineering Co. In the late 1940s, researchers immediately recognized the ability of the new magnetic materials to store data. Only after this was done were wires wrapped around the core.

Wind 143
article thumbnail

US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Green Car Congress

The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. The facility is used by the LRTA to store, fuel, maintain, and repair transportation vehicles (buses, vans, tow trucks etc.)

Emissions 256