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MAY 15, 2018

Global Bioenergies will lead a consortium including Sekab, Graanul Invest, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol, Peab Asfalt, SkyNRG, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a 3-year project (called REWOFUEL) to demonstrate the production of isobutene-derived gasoline and jetfuel from wood residuals.

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MAY 9, 2017

Global Bioenergies is partnering with Clariant, INEOS, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a €16.4-million assessment of the sustainability and environmental benefits by the Energy Institute at the University of Linz (Austria). The 48-month project will receive €9.8 million (US$10.7 million (US$4.8

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

The results of field trials with genetically modified poplar trees in Belgium and France shows that the wood of the modified poplar trees—down-regulated for cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR), an enzyme in the lignin biosynthetic pathway—improved saccharification yield—i.e., Van Acker et al. Click to enlarge. —Prof.

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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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. Overview of the CatLiq process. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Although they are targeting an initial implementation France, they see it as broadly applicable. Diagram: Isabelle Plat. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Saracco also taught courses on technology forecasting and market impact at the University of Trento in Italy. In 2017 and 2018 he served as head of EIT’s Industrial Doctoral School , headquartered in Palaiseau, France. students from European universities to help them transform their research into marketable products and solutions.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

Researchers from the University of York (UK) and Aix-Marseille Université (France) have discovered a new family of enzymes that can degrade hard-to-digest biomass into its constituent sugars. They report on the new family of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases in a paper in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.

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JUNE 9, 2023

This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. This panel, part of the Stanford HAI Spring Symposium on 24 May 2023, offered conversations between artists and technologists about intersections in their work. Moderated by Catie Cuan, Stanford University.

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JUNE 28, 2016

The projects can address (i) the entire field related to electrochemical energy storage, or (ii) associated characterization techniques or (iii) devices coupling an electrochemical energy conversion and storage function. The winner of the 2015 YESS award was Dr. Gregory Wildgoose of East Anglia University.

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MAY 23, 2011

The yield of bio-ethanol from the wood of genetically modified (GM) poplar trees from a VIB (Flanders Institue of Biotechnology) field trial is up to 81% higher than non-modified poplars, according to results presented at the 26 th New Phytologist symposium Bioenergy Trees in Nancy, France. This is just the beginning.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos! Vijay Kumar. Panelists: Elliot W.

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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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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The ACT Initiative is a consortium of ten European countries—France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom—and the United States. Carbon Capture Projects: Lowering Absorption Process Uncertainty, Risks, and Costs by Predicting and Controlling Amine Degradation (LAUNCH).

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MARCH 16, 2012

This full analysis considered feedstock production, shipment of the feedstock to the refinery, refining/conversion, shipment of the fuel to the refueling station, and vehicle operation. For gasoline, the study reflects the US context in which crude oil is to a large extent imported and refined domestically.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The production of ethanol by fermentation consists of four stages: the pre-processing of the raw material; the conversion of carbohydrates from polymers into sugar; the fermentation of sugar into ethanol using microbes; and the distillation of ethanol. Source: Universita Degli Studi di Milano. Click to enlarge. million (US$11.7

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021 : Every year, The AI Index drops a massive load of data into the conversation about AI. Ng spoke about an AI system developed at Stanford University that could spot pneumonia in chest x-rays, even outperforming radiologists. They ended with some promising ideas for the way forward.

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MARCH 22, 2010

France-based ECP is developing compact plasma-assisted gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology based on the use of a Compact Plate Reformer and high-temperature iron catalyst. The main target of this step is a separation of ashes, minerals, and metals from all volatile elements and compounds.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

A team from the University of Oxford (UK) and CNRS (France) has developed an optimized system for the photocatalytic production of hydrogen using an hydrogenase and photosensitizer co-attached to a TiO 2 nanoparticle. Source: Reisner et al./ Click to enlarge. —Reisner et al.

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MAY 24, 2022

Long Ma spends most of its time in China, but the mechanical beast has been transported to France so it can participate in fairs there this summer. A team at Columbia University, in New York City, has developed a wireless-communication technique for wearable medical devices that sends signals securely through body tissue.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The discovery of new cost-effective and highly active catalysts for electrochemical energy conversion and storage is of prime importance to address climate change challenges and develop storage options for renewable energy production. The new finding could be a significant step in that direction, the MIT researchers say.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. We needed to get the conversation started.” The group has shortlisted three designs and plan to have picked one by the end of 2024.

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MARCH 15, 2010

The second NASA technology transfer contract engages Contour Energy to pursue the chemical conversion of micron-sized, nano-structured templates available from renewable resources into functional electrode materials. The high specific energy will greatly reduce the mass of the batteries used onboard in long distance space missions.

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Couple this with Elon Musk noting that Autopilot was not involved, and it was no surprise that the crash became a topic for analysis and conversations among Tesla supporters. For professional insights on how misinformation becomes accepted, Teslarati reached out to Stephen Benning , a Professor of Psychology at the University of Las Vegas.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A French startup, SilMach , in Besançon, France, is betting big that it is. SilMach The idea of using silicon MEMS to make a watch motor seized French engineer Patrice Minotti in 1996 while he was in Tokyo, heading a joint laboratory between France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Tokyo. “I

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

France-based DEINOVE and US-based MBI have formed a technological partnership to demonstrate the effectiveness of the DEINOVE’s DEINOL technology for producing biofuels based on lignocellulosic biomass (2G biofuels) using MBI’s AFEX (ammonia fiber expansion) pretreatment system. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MAY 5, 2023

KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Happy May the 4th from KIMLAB! Botston Dynamics ] SkyMul uses robots for rebar tying, which is an important job in construction that is deeply unpleasant (and sometimes damaging) for humans to do. NCCR ] Lex Fridman interviews Boston Dynamics CEO Rob Player. [

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JUNE 13, 2011

The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

A paper describing a theoretical analysis of the springs’ potential, co-authored by Livermore, graduate student Frances Hill and Timothy Havel SM ’07, appeared in June in the journal Nanotechnology. Another paper by Livermore, Hill, Havel and A. These scaled-up springs need to be large (i.e., This is not easy to do.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered the industrial yeast S. To enable the yeast to use biomass as a feedstock, the team designed a novel co-culture of the MHT-expressing yeast with a mesophyllic cellulolytic bacterium, Actinotalea fermentans , which was isolated from a landfill in France.

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MAY 23, 2023

This was work from Denis Jabaudon at the University of Geneva, and they were looking at how neurons actually differentiate. Adee: Well, so Michael Levin is a professor at Tufts University. This is a whole conversation that’s being had, but that’s one avenue. It’s not just cortical cells. That’s a huge amount of time.

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IEEE FRANCES E. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” KAHN Corporation for National Research Initiatives Reston, Va. IEEE RICHARD W. IEEE JACK S.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Conversely, high coating thicknesses for the electrodes produce a high energy density. The absence of any universal hydrogen infrastructure at present means the focus at the moment is on the second process step: the hydrogen is then reacted with CO 2 , which comes from a nearby waste biogas plant, to produce synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas.

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Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) I cannot understand the rational for (developing) plug-ins." ( Agence-France Press ). Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. 10/23/07 Honda Motor Co.

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