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JUNE 9, 2014

In a 21013 study, researchers found large air quality and associated health benefits accruing to the residents of Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) as a result of the rapid conversion of the motor vehicle fleet to CNG. Congestion costs are still one-half of the health benefits of the CNG conversion policy. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems (SHARKS) program. The University of Michigan. HydroMINE is safe for the marine environment, and extremely robust.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $4 million in federal funding for national laboratories to collaborate with international partners on seven projects out of the 12 that were selected as a part of the Accelerating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (ACT) Initiative.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Researchers at Iowa State University have developed a genetic technique they say can increase biomass in algae by 50–80%. The key to this [increase in biomass] is combination of two genes that increases the photosynthetic carbon conversion into organic matter by 50 percent over the wild type under carbon dioxide enrichment conditions.

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JUNE 7, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1 Brown University.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

To support this approach, the ReFactory will also include an incubator, open to start-ups, academic partners, large groups, local authorities and intrapreneurship, as well as a training center, backed by a university center, to promote know-how and accelerate research in the circular economy.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Researchers at Arizona State University and Argonne National Laboratory reported advances toward perfecting a functional artificial leaf in a paper in Nature Chemistry. The researchers took a closer look at how nature had overcome a related problem in the part of the photosynthetic process where water is oxidized to yield oxygen.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU) and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have devised an artificial enzyme that digests lignin, which has stubbornly resisted previous attempts to develop it into an economically useful energy source. —Chun-Long Chen.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The collaboration with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), the University of Nottingham and Clean Air Power will initially target search and rescue vessels. The current and predicted future state of battery technology can’t offer the range and performance required by the RNLI at an acceptable weight for retrofit to its lifeboats.

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JULY 25, 2019

Now, a team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Oxford has discovered how hydrogen-producing enzymes (hydrogenases) are activated during their biosynthesis. They showed how the cofactor—part of the active center and also the heart of the enzyme—is introduced inside. —Prof. Oliver Lampret et al.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, according to a recent study by researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. The study is published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Asbridge et al.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

51-year-old Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. As part of its bankruptcy plan, ECD intends to sell through separate sales its wholly owned operating subsidiary United Solar Ovonic LLC (USO) and other assets, including its minority stake in Ovonyx, Inc. 35 OBC employees have been hired by BASF as part of this transaction.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

A team from IBM Research and Stanford University has identified a chemical catalyst that can be used to create cheaper, biodegradable plastics from plants such as palm trees and beets. The new catalyst is an organic substance that lowers the energy required for the conversion from plant to plastic to occur. Xiangyi Zhang, Gavin O.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy announced $29 million in funding for 14 projects as part of the Galvanizing Advances in Market-aligned fusion for an Overabundance of Watts (GAMOW) program, which is jointly sponsored by ARPA-E and the Office of Science–Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-FES). University of California, San Diego. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Babies in strollers can be exposed to up to ~60% higher average concentrations of pollution than their parents, causing potential damage to their frontal lobe and impacting on their cognitive abilities and brain development, according to a study by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). Environment International 120, 262-278.

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APRIL 6, 2018

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new approach for creating new catalysts to aid in clean energy conversion and storage. In this study, researchers looked at the challenges of improving affordability and catalyst efficiency in the conversion and storage of clean energy. —Huang et al. Huang et al.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Mallee is indigenous to Australia and is well adapted to the environment. The pyrolysis thermal conversion process has yet to be recognized by the world’s fuels standards authorities. The sustainability analysis is managed by the CRC, Airbus and the UK’s Manchester Metropolitan University.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). The work, led by G.K.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

That’s the goal of the Mobility Transformation Center, a cross-campus University of Michigan initiative that also involves government and industry representatives. In October, U-M regents approved plans for a one-of-a-kind driverless car test environment near North Campus. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Bees swarm.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Stanford University prides itself on its international diversity, touting that today's undergraduates hail from 70 countries. People have done voice conversion for deep fakes, and that technology is pretty advanced. That wasn't going to be particularly useful for real-time conversation, their ultimate goal.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Goal: Identify natural genetic variation in switchgrass that correlates with lignocellulose-to-biofuel conversion qualities.

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MARCH 1, 2023

“If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” Erb in the Porsche 914 EV conversion at EV races in Phoenix in 1998.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Developing the next generation of materials, including compounds for energy storage, conversion and production, depends on subatomic understanding of material behavior. Supernovas supply researchers with clues related to how heavy elements—including the gold in jewelry and iron in blood—seeded the universe. Astrophysics.

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JUNE 21, 2023

The key parts of the company’s strategy include introducing a next-generation modular architecture for EVs, strengthening EV production capacity, battery development capabilities and future businesses. In the existing system, auto parts can only be shared among vehicles that share the same platform.

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APRIL 25, 2024

What’s more, the scale of the problem makes artificial intelligence a compelling part of the solution. How We Got Started With Drones for Demining I became interested in land-mine detection while studying geological science as an undergraduate at Binghamton University , New York. demonstration previously described.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. This part is oriented towards the organic layer, such that the lipid can easily enter the active site and the hydrophilic products can diffuse into the aqueous layer.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Production of bio-based jet and diesel is expected to begin in 2013 and production of bio-based gasoline, part of the C 3 product platform, will follow in 2015. ZeaChem Inc., Zeachem uses an acetogen to ferment biomass-derived sugars to acetic acid. Earlier post. ).

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MARCH 24, 2011

As part of a larger $2.2-million As part of a larger $2.2-million The university is filing patents on the process. The University of Minnesota has already shown that naturally-occurring Shewanella bacteria produce hydrocarbons and are tolerant to the same. It’s also free. —Lawrence Wackett. Resources.

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JULY 17, 2011

A study by a team from the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum found that fluid thermal processing of. Direct thermal conversion can be a more feasible process to obtain bitumen-derived liquid products from oil-wet oil sand, they say. The study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This study suggests that Synechocystis , expressing the modified efe gene, has potential to be an efficient biological catalyst for the uptake and conversion of CO 2 to ethylene. Conversely, the process recycles carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, since the organism utilizes the gas as part of its metabolic cycle. Energy Environ.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has identified a small molecule surrogate for cellulose—?-cyclodextrin—in Using the faster computer simulations, they can track the conversion of wood all the way to the chemical vapor products. Energy Environ. Credit: Paul Dauenhauer.

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JUNE 10, 2022

In association with universities, institutes and development companies, we are developing research platforms whose basic technical principles are based on nature. To begin with, we have updated Misty's conversational skills, focusing on both improved NLU capabilities and added more languages. So what is new, we hear you ask?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In a step toward synthetic solar conversion systems, the ORNL researchers have demonstrated and confirmed with small-angle neutron scattering analysis that light harvesting complex II (LHC-II) proteins can self-assemble with polymers into a synthetic membrane structure and produce hydrogen. Energy Environ.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

CRI Catalyst Company is part of CRI/Criterion Inc., Participants in GTI’s project included Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Michigan Technological University. Earlier post.) the global catalyst technology company of the Shell Group. —Nick Gerritsen.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

These researchers were recruited to NYU Tandon as part of a “cluster hire” over two years from 2017-2019 to anchor Tandon Dean Jelena Kova?evi?’s Q: Can you talk about how you found your way to Tandon and what the impetus was for you to be part of launching a new robotics initiative?

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Based on Anellotech’s innovative proprietary CFP technology, patents licensed from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Axens’ proprietary post-treatment hydrotreating process, this new technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-aromatics from renewable resources with lower energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

The high acrylonitrile yield allows us to propose a potential industrial process for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to renewable acrylonitrile and carbon fibers. Historically, acrylonitrile prices have been volatile due to ties to propylene prices. —Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author.

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