Green Car Congress
JUNE 20, 2014
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed materials with the same weight and density as aerogel (“frozen smoke”) but with 10,000 times more stiffness using additive micro-manufacturing processes. Source: LLNL Click to enlarge. Zheng et al. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
A study led by MIT researchers, focused on New York City, suggests that using mobile-phone data to track people’s movement provides an even deeper picture of exposure to pollution in urban settings than by studying air-quality levels in fixed places. Their open-access paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Ford is now shipping beta test kits of its open-source connectivity research platform, OpenXC ( earlier post ), to developers and universities around the world. The CAN translation module is a microcontroller with two connections: one to the CAN bus via the OBD-II port, and one to the host device via USB. OpenXC architecture.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 3, 2014
The delegation visited the Floating NPP Training Center and the Baltic Shipyard and met with the members of the team for the reference floating NPP construction project, and examined the floating power generating unit currently under construction. They might be connected to coastal infrastructure or float next to consumer.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2020
The GE Research team aims to reduce operations and maintenance (O&M) costs by moving from a time- to condition-based predictive maintenance framework, using GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300 boiling water reactor as the reference design. Digital twins of MSRs will require this critical data, which is currently unavailable.
Cars That Think
APRIL 8, 2022
This video from UW is the first look we've had at what DARPA RACER might look like: high speed offroad driving without any external references, not even GPS. It's a real skill that works! Energy Robotics ]. Flying and ground robots complement each other in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. CHI 2022 ].
Cars That Think
JUNE 29, 2023
The cable car is suspended over a dramatic gorge on the Niagara River on six interlocking steel cables, connecting two points along the shore half a kilometer apart. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket/Getty Images First came his work, beginning in the 1880s, on funiculars, the most famous of which is the Whirlpool Aero Car.
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