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A team at RWTH Aachen University has identified ethyllevulinate and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran as promising alternatives to cellulosic bioethanol with respect to cost and environmental impact based on a large-scale reaction screening study. Fuel families and fuels in the study. —Ulonska et al. Credit: ACS, Ulonska et al.

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MAY 20, 2015

For the study, the EDF team used the Technology Warming Potentials (TWP) methodology, which considers the radiative efficiency of both CO 2 and CH 4 and their atmospheric fate as a function of time, thereby providing a view of climate impacts from fuel switching across both short and long time frames. —Camuzeaux et al. L diesel to 11.9

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JULY 7, 2015

A study by a team from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has found that perennial biofuel crops’ evapotranspiration does not differ greatly from corn. Land conversion to biofuel production is an example of a potential large-scale land cover change.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. output of mining or importing technologies) to conversion or process technologies (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

His paper, Kreutz noted, is only a preliminary scoping study designed to sketch out the rough outlines of each system’s prospective performance and economics as related primarily to GHG. owned by) a power plant; careful integration between the two plants will reduce costs (not studied in detail here). short, large supplies of CO 2.

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APRIL 14, 2022

IEEE Spectrum carried out its conversation with Foster by email to find out more about why RF exposure assessment research has been such a success, what makes RF dosimetry so difficult, and why public worries about health and wireless radiation never seem to go away. Foster: Measuring RF fields in free space is not a problem.

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APRIL 21, 2020

Lloyd’s Register (LR) and the University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS) have published their latest assessment of the current and future fuels available to shipping to help define the optimum solutions as the maritime industry seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. —“Techno-economic assessment of zero-carbon fuels”.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

A team of researchers at George Washington University led by Prof. In the figure "ton" refers to metric tonne and CNT, carbon nanotube. The latter (B) includes a cascade effect due to virgin Al’s large carbon footprint, triggering larger CNT-composite induced CO 2 emission elimination. Licht et al.

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MARCH 26, 2024

The standard offers reference contract language inspired by Amsterdam’s Contractual Terms for Algorithms , the European model contractual clauses , and clauses issued by the Society for Computers and Law AI Group. This reference contract language can be indispensable to agencies negotiating with AI vendors.

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JUNE 28, 2021

A study by researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany has found that synthetic dimethoxymethane (DMM) is not only a promising fuel or blend component because of its outstanding combustion characteristics, but that it could be very attractive from a production point of view as well.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

The study elucidates the specific functions of small sugars (glycans) that microbes attach to their enzymes. This enzymatic modification by the addition of sugars is referred to as “glycosylation” and it is known to have a substantial impact on enzyme function. Antonella Amore, Brandon C. Knott, Nitin T.

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JULY 23, 2013

Researchers in South Korea have developed a simple, low-cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen-doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs) with excellent catalytic performance in both dye-sensitized solar cells and fuel cells to replace conventional platinum (Pt)-based catalysts for energy conversion. —Jeon et al. —Jeon et al.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

A team from Nanjing University, Hubei Normal University and Zhejiang University has developed a cobalt-doped graphdiyne catalyst for catalytically decomposing ammonia (NH 3 ) to generate H 2. Conversely, low-cost metal catalysts are available but demonstrate suboptimal catalytic effects. —Liu et al.

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MAY 15, 2016

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have introduced a new method for identifying NO x emissions hotspots using high-fidelity Lagrangian vehicle data to explore spatial interactions that may influence emissions production. A study by Wu et al. The buses also emitted 2.3

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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., —Prof. More and more people are becoming interested in it. George, Utah.

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JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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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. It thus provides a benchmark and reference on a per active site basis for future systems. Source: Reisner et al./

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry , referred to as 2011 BT2 —detailing US biomass feedstock potential for energy applications nationwide. The amount would be dependent on many variables in the continued supply chain and final conversion technology. — 2011 BT2.

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The genetic architecture of inbreeding depression, often referred to as the converse of hybrid vigor, is largely unknown for trees and was also tackled in the study. The international effort to sequence and analyze the genome of Eucalyptus grandis engaged more than 80 researchers from 30 institutions, representing 18 countries.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Every person we spoke with wanted to talk—to vent, even—and to share conversations they’d had and anecdotes they’d heard from others in the business. But it is likely a major contributor to EV charging problems quantified in recent studies by J.D. Power and the University of California, Berkeley.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. In this study, researchers tested how C. Wiedel, Jennifer Au, Maciek R.

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APRIL 3, 2009

On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. Other observations included: Most studies only include energy consumption (sometimes only non-renewable energy, sometimes total energy) and CO 2 emissions.

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In recent years, the study of HEA has grown into an independent field of materials research, as evidenced by numerous publications10. Top images: The active material studied with high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). —Sarkar et al. Sarkar et al.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Academia, civil society, people who are really taking the time to study what is the most effective regulation that still will hold industry’s feet to the fire a bit but allow them to innovate. When I look at this, though, I do worry about this polarization of these sides and our inability to have a genuine, true conversation.

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MAY 12, 2012

This goal will be facilitated by fundamental research to establish the basis for new concepts, design elements and tools performed through university/industry/national laboratory partnerships. The ICE is a complex system whose operation is controlled by a wide range of processes.

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In 1989, HCI began blending various ratios of hydrogen and natural gas and testing them in an emissions laboratory at Colorado State University. In 1993, HCI and the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory (EECL) at Colorado State University formed a research partnership and proposed a comprehensive study to the Department of Energy (DOE).

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APRIL 15, 2023

So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. I didn’t know that word, honestly,” (presumably referring to the word “mayday.”) “And I just heard it freaking coming on that he lost his rudder, that he needed pumps.” Stillwell asked if they had heard the call. “I

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emissions through the natural gas supply network, hereafter referred to as CH 4. Pacala, Princeton University; James J. Chameides, Duke University; and Steven P. This study does not consider potential changes in sulfate aerosols and black carbon from the fuel-switching scenarios. —Alvarez et al.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. Learn more about simulation apps and find this and other case studies at comsol.com/blog/apps. And it's the Jeopardy phenomenon you refer to. James Cortada is both a Ph.D.

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JULY 30, 2023

Wiener’s bad luck turned into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin Glimcher. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.,

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

A policy analysis by two University of Illinois researchers argues that Congress should minimally modify, not repeal, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In the study, law professor Jay P. The Energy Biosciences Institute, supported in part by BP, funded the study. Kesan and Timothy A. Renewable Biomass. —Jay Kesan.

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MAY 15, 2015

ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. University of Missouri, Lehigh University, and Evapco). Colorado State University. Stony Brook University.

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Table 2 summarizes several patents that reference EP29LPSP. 00, WP1995, Revision 0, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, 19 Mar. Study of Argon from Underground Sources for Direct Dark Matter Detection. Dissertation, Princeton University, 2013. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 5 Xu, Jingke.

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Madni has been a distinguished adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering and distinguished scientist since 2011 at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. It also is used for guidance, navigation, and control in major U.S.

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The phrase refers to an individual who had made serious contributions to a domain, while also possessing multiple, and often diverse, talents and pursuits. Breakthrough at MIT After graduating from Carnegie Tech in 1959, Ivan Sutherland headed to Caltech for graduate studies in electrical engineering. The reason?

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