Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
When illuminated with light-emitting diodes rather than lasers, the photocatalytic efficiencies remain comparable, even when the scale of reaction increases by nearly three orders of magnitude. Unlike traditional catalysts, it doesn’t require heat; it harvests energy from light. —Peter Nordlander, co-author.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 16, 2013
Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. Different sources of light were used, ranging from a laser to white light simulating the solar spectrum.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2021
Advocacy group Coltura has published a report that finds converting the biggest users of gasoline to EVs in the next ten years is critical to reaching climate goals and that present EV policies are poorly suited to accomplishing that conversion. This is more than the bottom 60% of users combined. The top 20% of gasoline users burn 48%.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
An illustration of the light-powered, one-step remediation process for hydrogen sulfide gas made possible by a gold photocatalyst created at Rice University. Each island was a gold nanoparticle about 10 billionths of a meter across that would interact strongly with a specific wavelength of visible light. —Naomi Halas.
Cars That Think
JUNE 9, 2023
This is an example of bridging the conversational nature of Chat GPT and other LLMs to generate real-world physical action. Together with the visitors of the Nerdland Festival, they created the longest chain of robots ever, which also respond to light. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 23, 2015
Hydrogen production, converting light gases generated in the first stage to hydrogen in sufficient quantity to supply all process needs. The IH 2 technology is an efficient conversion route for lignocellulosic biomass. CRI Catalyst Company of Houston, Texas has been granted exclusive worldwide licensing rights.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2012
Woody biomass gave up to 36% carbon conversion to pure hydrocarbons at optimum conditions. Among their findings were that for pine, the average carbon conversion to liquid-range hydrocarbons was 36% with a catalyst-to-biomass ratio of 10:1 at 600°C. This conversion presents more than 50% of the theoretical yield.
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