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BMW showcasing urban mobility connectivity applications at ITS World Congress

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The BMW Group is showcasing developments from BMW ConnectedDrive at the ITS World Congress this week in Vienna under the slogan “BMW Urban Mobility”. Cooperative transponder technologies (Ko-TAG). —Andreas Rauch, Project Manager Ko-TAG at BMW Group Research and Technology. Emergency calling and advisories from BMW Assist.

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Ames Lab researchers boost thermoelectric conversion by TAGS materials

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A team led by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory recently reported that doping members of the well-established TAGS group—tellurium, antimony, germanium and silver—of thermoelectric materials with 1% of cerium or ytterbium can boost the thermoelectric figure of merit by up to 25%. Levin, B.A.

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RMI Adds Power Tagging to Project Get Ready

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Power Tagging Technologies, Inc. , The addition of Power Tagging to the project’s Technical Advisors brings a practical grid perspective to the burgeoning project, according to RMI. Power Tagging has created a technology which enables encrypted digital “tags” to be attached to grid-resident devices. Tags: Brief.

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Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

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Earlier work by Durrett and colleagues at the DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center had resulted in approximately a 60 mol% accumulation of ac-TAGs.). As one example, the viscosity of acetyl-TAG falls within or slightly above the specifications of diesel #4 fuel. —Liu et al.

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Raser to Unveil Plug-in SUV at SAE World Congress in Detroit

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will unveil at the upcoming SAE World Congress in Detroit a full-size SUV Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) designed to achieve more than 100 mpg US in typical local daily driving with near zero emissions by driving up to 40 miles per day in all-electric mode. Tags: Brief. Raser Technologies, Inc. Earlier post.).

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BIO Asks Congress Not To Subject Biofuels To Double Jeopardy

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When it comes to climate change legislation, Congress has focused a great deal of attention on stationary emission sources, such as coal-fired power plants. Tags: Brief. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Brent Erickson, executive vice president of BIO’s Industrial & Environmental Section.

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LiquidPiston To Unveil Compact High Efficiency Engine at 2010 SAE World Congress

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In a paper to be presented at next week’s 2010 SAE World Congress in Detroit, LiquidPiston, Inc. Tags: Engines. will publicly reveal the architecture of its High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle (HEHC) engine. Earlier post.) The paper describes LiquidPiston’s third-generation engine prototype, which was first test-fired in January 2010.

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