Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2022

With Spot bringing the sensors to their assets, the team collects valuable information about the thermal condition of pumps and motors, as well as taking analog gauge readings. However, little is known about how robots might appropriately discern the sensitivity of information, which has major implications for human-robot trust.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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JULY 15, 2011

fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery), energy conversion coefficients among different energy forms and sources, system boundaries, and so on. Zhang proposes using a simple biomass-to-wheel (BTW) energy efficiency analysis to help make a more informed decision for how to utilize (limited) biomass resources more efficiently.

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MAY 30, 2020

ARPA-E recently added five new topics to the “Solicitation on Topics Informing New Program Areas,” a funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0001953 ) that enables ARPA-E to investigate potential new program areas. ARPA-E seeks to establish robust, energy efficient, and low-cost strategies for direct removal of carbon dioxide from ambient air.

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JULY 10, 2019

Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Madison, Wis. Amesbury, Mass. San Diego, Calif.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

This is a low-volume, high-value market where aircraft will rely on high-cost and cutting-edge technologies to reach new heights with regard to performance and safety. Often, two-wheelers are the low-hanging fruit when it comes to electrification. Most projects thus far have been for inland vessels and some short-sea vessels.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) program ( DE-FOA-0001197 ) aims to develop low-cost, highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants. Increased information and analytics could improve crop yields to help lower the cost of biofuel production.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Metal oxides of earth-abundant elements are promising electrocatalysts to overcome the sluggish oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reaction (OER/ORR) in many electrochemical energy-conversion devices. In contrast, our method produces a family of new high-performance and low-cost catalysts. O x and Ni 0.33 —Wei et al.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The plants being contemplated are expected to have an attractive environmental footprint as they would process these waste streams with a low emissions profile. Due to the confidentiality agreements in place and competitively sensitive information, SES is not able to divulge further details regarding the agreement.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. Principal Investigator (PI): Zhenan Bao, chemical engineering.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Therefore, a concerted research effort is needed to address the constraints that currently limit deployment of NETs, such as high costs, land and environmental constraints, and energy requirements. However, these four NETs cannot yet provide enough carbon removal at reasonable cost without substantial unintended harm, the report says.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

More favourable and better solutions for lubrication-free movements, low-cost automation and CO2-reducing products are the focal points. Additionally, the conversion of a 2,800 square metre office building into a further start-up and training centre which will be open to customers, will soon begin.

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MARCH 29, 2017

There are seven additional pathways in the queue for the D7566 process: Catalytic conversion of sugars by aqueous phase reforming (CCS-APR). Despite the approval of these conversion pathways, technical, social, and regulatory barriers have limited both the production and the growth of the industry. HEFA expansion.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,500 (20% cost share). DOE: $749,999 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,499 (20% cost share). DOE: $696,416 Non-DOE: $174,104 Total: $870,520 (20% cost share). Cost: DOE: $749,058 Non-DOE: $187,264 Total: $936,322 (20% cost share). General Electric Company. Alstom Power Inc.

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MARCH 3, 2015

As FCEVs become increasingly commercially available, the Energy Department is focused on reducing the costs and increasing technical advancements of critical hydrogen infrastructure including production, delivery, and storage. Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

Hydrogen Production R&D: Microbial Biomass Conversion. Microbial biomass conversion processes offer mid- to long-term potential for sustainable hydrogen production with low environmental impact. Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 1 to 3 awards between $1M and $3M.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. DOE Funding: $160,000.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Big Delta will demonstrate that the new process at the core of its manufacturing technology is scalable, reliable and significantly reduces the cost of manufacturing high-performance Li-ion cells. Connected Signals will obtain traffic signal data and demonstrate the benefits of real-time signal-state information for vehicles and drivers.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

The drive unit’s high efficiency means low costs of ownership: Fuel costs compared with an equivalent gasoline engine are much lower, at around €4 (US $4.70) per 100 kilometers (62.1 Audi g-tron customers receive a document that confirms their car will be supplied with Audi e-gas and informs them about the certification.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2013

BNDES noted that this will be the first project that uses technologies for conversion of bagasse and cane straw at industrial scale that is fully integrated into the process of conventional ethanol, obtained from the juice of sugar cane (first generation). —Brian Foody, CEO of Iogen.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The workshop will bring together thought leaders from distinct science and engineering communities to develop new ideas and identify practical approaches toward increasing the efficiency of light collection by biological systems and the conversion of that energy into liquid forms of chemical energy that can be used for transportation.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It states that the Department’s role as a source of information and as a convener of interested parties, two functions that are often underestimated, are unique and indispensable in advancing energy technologies. Impartial DOE research can help inform these standards.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Achieving those goals will will be difficult—but not impossible to meet—and will necessitate a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels such as biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices. —Douglas M.

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

VTO supports a broad technology portfolio aimed at developing and deploying advanced highway transportation technologies to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, while meeting or exceeding vehicle performance and cost expectations. Some specific goals include: Cutting battery costs from their current $500/kWh to $125/kWh.

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MARCH 24, 2016

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a production method they estimate will reduce the cost of carbon fiber as much as 50% and the energy used in its production by more than 60%. Details of the cost analysis will be shared with the prospective licensees.

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MAY 15, 2015

The projects are funded through ARPA-E’s two newest programs, Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) and Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA), which both seek to develop low-cost technology solutions. These projects have been selected for negotiation of awards; final award amounts may vary.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Utilidata, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells. —ARPA-E Director Dr. Ellen D. Iowa State University.

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JUNE 12, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $54 million—leveraging approximately an additional $17 million in cost share from the private sector—for 13 projects to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help manufacturers significantly increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs.

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MAY 19, 2017

If successful, the FuelCell team will increase ammonia production rates to 100 times current electrochemical methods—comparable with commercial processes while avoiding the need for separate hydrogen production thanks to its use of water, thus decreasing feedstock costs. REFUEL (DE-AR0000813) SAFCell, Inc.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Besides creating new possibilities in the field of autonomous machines, he is making robots accessible to more researchers with the Solo 8 and 12 projects, a low-cost, open source alternative to prohibitively expensive quadruped robots. In this context we work on artificial intelligence, nonlinear control, and information theory.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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MARCH 28, 2015

While a conventional cathode stores ions between the layers of its molecular structure (intercalation) the metal fluorides store them via a reversible electrochemical reaction, called a conversion reaction. Although poor electronic and ionic transport plague many conversion electrodes, recent studies show that the electronic conductivity in?FeF

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

The solicitations include up to $65 million over three years to fund continued research and development (R&D) on fuel cell components with the goal of reducing costs, improving durability and increasing the efficiency of fuel cell systems. Topic 1: Balance-of-Plant Components.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS projects will establish the building blocks of this class of power converter by advancing higher efficiency designs that exhibit enhanced reliability and superior total cost of ownership. data center energy consumption and operating cost while creating a high-volume commercial market for SiC-based power converters. 418,688.

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JANUARY 22, 2011

All Encouraged Applicants listed elected to post information regarding their technologies. In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Electrofuels.

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