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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

Green Car Congress

Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. The output of these processing stations is connected to an array of catalysts. Earlier post.). The main catalysts are proprietary modified ZSM-5 catalysts.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Petaluma, Calif.

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VW launches new Sharan MPV; up to 14.3% more fuel efficient; stop-start, battery regen standard

Green Car Congress

Using a specially coated diesel particulate filter (the actual SCR catalytic converter), the SCR system converts the nitrogen oxides (NO x ) in the exhaust gas into nitrogen (N 2 ) and water (H 2 O ). Any Sharan TDI driver can top up the AdBlue easily themselves, with access to the separate tank via the luggage compartment.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. So it’s a lot better than just a 10-word Google search. It doesn’t have any connection to the world. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly.

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Travels with Perplexity AI

Cars That Think

Perplexity aims to provide an alternative to the broken Google search experience, which forces users to sift through ads, paid placements, and AI-generated junk posts to find what they’re looking for. Next: “Where can I buy distilled water near me right now?” (In You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.”

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The Ultimate Guide to EV Road Trip Planning

Plug in America

Google Maps has also improved and often does the trick for finding charging along your route, according to some drivers, while PlugShare confirms chargers’ functionality. That way, a weak internet connection won’t frustrate you on the road. Plan out your route. Don’t try to charge to 100% if you’re fast charging.

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Will Scaling Solve Robotics?

Cars That Think

Almost all the content is taken directly from talks I attended or conversations I had with fellow attendees. CV and NLP got so much data because they had an incredible “data flywheel”: tens of millions of people connecting to and using the Internet. Even if it works as well as in CV/NLP, it won’t solve robotics The 99.X The reason?

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