Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT.

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Cars That Think

MAY 24, 2022

The same is true in reverse, when solar panels lose some of the energy in photons as heat instead of it all being converted into electrons. A thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell developed by engineers at MIT has eclipsed the 40-percent-efficiency mark. But the tide looks to be turning. Felice Frankel One Large Rat, Hold the Droppings.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2017

The PEM system uses heating from electrically conducting gas (a plasma) to convert the feedstock (usually waste) to valuable products. InEnTec’s technology was developed at MIT and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with the support of the US Department of Energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

The planned facility will convert municipal solid waste into synthetic fuels and power. The intense heat of the second stage plasma gasifier rearranges the molecular structure of the waste, transforming organic (carbon-based) materials into synthesis gas (syngas). S4 Energy Solutions LLC , a joint venture by Waste Management, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V in O 2 (gas) → O x− (condensed phase), and η charging > 1.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Electrofuels. coli; Product: Isooctane. 4,000,000.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2023

Tanenbaum later developed the first gas-diffused silicon transistor, which could amplify and switch signals above 100 megahertz at a switching speed 10 times that of previous silicon transistors. Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. in physical chemistry from Princeton.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The oxy-combustion process replaces the air used for combustion with a mixture of oxygen and recycled plant emissions (flue gas) and/or water for temperature control. The CDCL process consists of a unique moving bed reactor where pulverized coal is fully converted using iron-based oxygen carriers. Gas Technology Institute.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Bio2Electric’s project will demonstrate a novel conversion process to produce ethylene (a widely used commodity chemical) from natural gas, with the goal of reduced greenhouse gas emissions, lower reactor capital and lower operating expense compared to current industry practice. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

A real corker, and the answer to the question, what generates electricity but isn’t a dynamo or a fuel cell? Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs A window-mounted air-conditioning system includes an electric heat pump for heating. The Menlo Park, Calif., For Wittingham’s other complaints, you’ll have to read the article.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jesse Jenkins and his collaborators used the REPEAT energy model to project the greenhouse-gas reductions resulting from recent U.S. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?” So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., candidate, built the GenX electricity-system planning model. clean-tech legislation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2011

Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries : Twelve projects awarded to develop high energy or high power batteries for electric vehicles that should significantly exceed existing state-of-the-art technologies in terms of performance and/or cost. Advanced cells and design technology for electric drive batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2021

The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. If successful, it will be the first biological platform to convert carboxylic acids into a broad range of fuels and commodities with greater than 100% carbon efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2010

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $125 million in five separate contracts to Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce-North America to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel consumption, emissions and noise. General Electric. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. gas into a liquid transportation fuel by combining fuel cell. In contrast, this reactor produces electricity as a byproduct of fuel production. utility of geographically isolated gas reserves.

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 5, 2008

In his blog he writes: Originally conceived of in 1990, the California ZEV program has morphed over time from just an electric car mandate to incorporate a broad spectrum of clean, advanced technology vehicles, such as hybrids. FCVs will therefore be wasteful of land and our renewable electricity investments.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Heat exchangers are critical to efficient thermal energy use in a variety of applications, including electricity generation, nuclear reactors, transportation, petrochemical plants, waste heat recovery, and many more. MIT will develop a high performance, compact, and durable ceramic heat exchanger. The Ohio State University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes. Terrafugia’s vision for the future is the TF-X.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

It will explore low-energy plasmas’ effectiveness in enhancing or controlling energy-related chemical processes, such as converting natural gas to larger molecules for producing liquid fuels or chemical feedstocks. Plasma Physics: The project will take advantage of Princeton’s world-leading facilities for studying plasma physics.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2022

The company calls this dual-chemistry hybrid pack Gemini, and recently told Charged that it is enabled by utilizing cutting-edge cell technologies and a proprietary high-power-density DC-DC converter. That is one drawback that is preventing some types of buyers from going electric. What makes two different cells a good match?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2018

The program has been very successful in helping California fleet managers realize a faster ROI on a range of important technologies, such as electrification and natural gas. So converting a fleet isn’t just an environmentally responsible decision—it’s a financially responsible one, too. California HVIP funding. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

» Transportation | March 28, 2009 | by EV World The Reality of Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles By Noel Adams Every so often I read articles, like the ones recently about a breakthrough from researchers at MIT, which will allow batteries to charge quickly, in this case, in 2 seconds.

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