Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

Canada-based Rapid Electric Vehicles (REV) has begun production of four converted electric bi-directional charging Ancillary Power Vehicles (APVs) ( earlier post ) as part of the US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) Micro-Grid project at Wheeler Air Base, Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Announced on the eve of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) CEO Summit, the memorandum of understanding highlights how the companies will work together to identify biofuel sources and supporting technologies for producing sustainable jet fuel in Hawaii. Being an island state with a strong U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

The Round 3 fuel cell awardees are: Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers. Savannah River National Laboratory has been awarded $300,000 to work with Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers to perform analysis on the performance and design of low pressure hydrogen storage systems to power mobile applications of Proton Exchange Membrane hydrogen fuel cells.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The site is expected to be a flagship test facility for wave energy converters globally, playing a critical role in advancing wave energy technology into commercial viability. For context, approximately 90,000 homes can be powered by 1 TWh per year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Hawaii project is jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and by the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD). Many ports have begun to enact sustainability goals or adopt green practices—an area in which fuel cells can play a role.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2012

The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres’ sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee. Ceres anticipates Florida and the Gulf Coast as well as California’s Imperial Valley, Arizona and Hawaii could be markets for sweet sorghum production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

Converting biomass to renewable fuels via a pyrolysis pathway. The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

There are currently 11 commercial plants at the Salton Sea field producing geothermal energy, a process in which hot fluids are pumped up from deep underground and the heat is then converted to electricity. Both of these methods have serious environmental issues associated with them.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

A unique two-part architecture and wing system directly converts wave motion into thrust, and solar panels provide electricity for sensor payloads. Based in Silicon Valley and Hawaii, Liquid Robotics, Inc. Wave Gliders can travel to a distant area, collect data, and return for maintenance without ever requiring a ship to leave port.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. DOE Share: $24,243,509). Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd. DOE Share: $6,239,542). (DOE

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Algal biomass can be converted to advanced biofuels that offer promising alternatives to petroleum-based diesel and jet fuels. million to lead a consortium including University of Hawaii, Cornell University, Cellana and others to produce protein-based human and poultry nutritional products along with hydrotreated algal oil extract.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

The project team for the demonstration includes ClearFuels; Rentech, which has a 25% strategic ownership investment in ClearFuels ( earlier post ); URS; Linde/Hydro-Chem; Hawaiian Electric Company; National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL); and Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

The following projects have been selected for awards: Cellana LLC , Kailua Kona, Hawaii, $5,521,173. This three-year project will work to build a demonstration plant using two technologies to convert low-value byproducts and wastes from paper mills into higher-value sugar, oil, and lignin products. Exelus, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The goal is to convert corporate fleet owners to electric fleets, so owners reap both the economic benefits of lower cost of ownership as well as reducing harmful carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Since 1990, development of oil palm plantations has cleared about 16,000 square kilometers of Kalimantan’s primary and logged forested lands— an area about the size of Hawaii. This accounts for 60% of Kalimantan’s total forest cover loss in that time, according to the study’s authors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

Fiber will be converted to ethanol, manure used for fertilizer, and oil from the crops will be converted to biodiesel used in farm equipment. University of Hawaii ($6 million). This project will optimize the production of grasses in Hawaii, including napier grass, energy cane, sugarcane and sweet sorghum.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

million square kilometers in the Pacific Ocean roughly 500 miles south of Hawaii. In October DeepGreen derived its first metal from polymetallic nodules in a processing lab, and in March, the company’s partner Allseas acquired a former drill ship to convert to a polymetallic nodule collecting vessel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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JULY 21, 2012

In August 2011, UOP began construction in Hawaii of a demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into renewable drop-in transportation fuels via a rapid pyrolysis process integrated with a catalytic upgrading process. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. ClearFuels expects to begin receiving funds from this grant by the end of March.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

The basic components of an ultrasonic welding system include: A transducer which transforms high frequency electrical energy to vibratory energy and is incorporated in the welding head; A power supply which converts line power to the high frequency and high voltage needed by the transducer; The welding head which also provides the means—pneumatic, (..)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Electrical architecture: DC power from the fuel cells converted to AC power for the motors. This seed could grow into a 40-meter tugboat, a 70-meter supply boat or a 300-meter oceangoing ship trading between the West Coast and Hawaii. Either one or two motors per shaft. Propulsors: Waterjet or Voith linear jet. —Tom Escher.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2009

The “smart” buoys, based on integrated patented hydrodynamics, electronics, energy conversion and computer control systems, capture and convert energy from the natural rising and falling of waves into low-cost, clean electricity. The OPT PowerBuoys are point absorbers, with a linear generator for a power take-off system. Earlier post.).

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JULY 3, 2018

The fuel cells provide DC power, which must be conditioned, converted and inverted to provide bus DC and AC power, respectively. Whereas the SF-BREEZE requires refueling after 100 miles, the Zero-V can go at least 2,400 miles or 15 days before requiring a refuel; enough to get from San Diego to Hawaii.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The project will develop a new device called the Galloping Hydrokinetic Energy Extraction Device that will convert fast-moving river currents into an oscillating motion that will drive a dielectric elastomer generator (DEG). Pueblo, Colorado) will design, construct and test a laboratory-scale model of the Cycloidal Wave Energy Converter.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Better Place has signed up orders from more than 50 Vision Partners in Israel—representing a total car park of approximately 35,000 ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles—which have committed to convert a portion of their ICE fleets to Better Place when commercially available in 2011.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels. Besides reducing the cost of the systems to the telephone company, such chips would enable companies to build small branch exchanges that handled switching electronically.

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MARCH 1, 2023

While Elkind, the other comanager of the Computer Science Laboratory, was skeptical of the proposal, he became a convert after seeing the prototype Alto in April 1973. He wasn’t the only convert. Once researchers at PARC tried out the Alto, they wanted it. On 22 May 1973, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing his “ETHER Network.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

See Appendix G for a speculative picture of how a 15-year transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Hawaii can be accomplished.) There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. A good start: have all government vehicles be PHEVs. We can set a goal to have every new vehicle purchased be a PHEV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Going back to our formula we will first need to convert our kilowatt value to watts so we have 10,800 * 1000 = 10,800,000 watts needed from the source. Note this value is in KW not KWHrs since it represents an amount of power delivered in a 2 second burst.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. The closest to that source is solar.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think has even shown a convertible prototype. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Creature comforts include air conditioning, power steering, sunroof, and electric windows and mirrors.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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