Cars That Think

MARCH 14, 2022

The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. Thermal energy storage is a known low-cost, low-risk approach for storing solar energy in the form of heat,” adds Codd.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A paper co-authored by Hansman and several MIT students—and presented this summer at the IEEE International Conference on Future Energy Solutions at the University of Vaasa in Finland— considered the case of supplying enough liquid hydrogen for 100 airports worldwide, each with long-haul flights.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

At this stage, cost estimates are uncertain, since methane cracking is not yet a fully mature technology. However, preliminary calculations show that it could achieve costs of €1.9 Alternatively, black carbon can be stored away, using procedures that are much simpler, safer and cheaper than the storing of carbon dioxide.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. The gravity batteries described in this story lift giant weights in the air or up mine shafts to store excess electricity, releasing the weights later on to recover the stored energy.

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Blink Charging

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here are a few ideas for Blink Hosts. The Series 8 offers 48-80amp charging and comes with RFID and credit card readers so everyone can use the charger, worry free. I resolve to… prepare for future EV charging One thing is certain: the cost of construction will increase every year.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 3, 2024

Instead of a universal product like battery boosters or jack stands, we would like to walk readers through the installation of a replacement part on one of our cars just the other week. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories. Ask me how I know.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2014

Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Assistant Professor, University of Toronto. And this could come from behind-the-scenes use cases for robot manipulation, in warehouses, retail stores, food preparation, and manufacturing. Assistant Professor, Florida State University. BACK TO TOP ↑ ].

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns : MIT's Neil Thompson and several of his collaborators captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems. They ended with some promising ideas for the way forward. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

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MARCH 21, 2024

In 1981, physicist Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a quantum computer as a means of simulating the full complexity of the quantum world. Sequestration strategies exist, but are not cost or energy efficient enough to make a significant dent in the current carbon emissions. One alternative to cobalt is nickel.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Zinc-bromine technologies can do well due to the low cost of materials."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A team of engineers from the University of Lincoln, with funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has confirmed the feasibility of aircraft regenerate braking from the landing gear to provide power for taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use jet engines.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Zinc-bromine technologies can do well due to the low cost of materials."

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2018

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory in the US and Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK, have identified a group of materials—niobium tungsten oxides—that could be used to make even higher power batteries.

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Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. That’s about two thirds of the leasing cost of a LEAF nowadays.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2022

Engineers Are Pioneers The physical world is limited but the world of ideas without boundaries; and there are seemingly no limits especially in technology and science. The source of Bush's quotations is The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush , edited by Zachary and published by Columbia University Press (2022). Pascal Zachary.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

The amount of solar radiation that reaches the Earth in a year exceeds current annual energy needs by more than 10,000-fold; however, it is not yet possible to store sufficiently high amounts of solar energy in an efficient way. —Simon et al. —Thomas Simon, a PhD student at Professor Feldmann’s chair.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It And when that’s the case, why would you do it any other way? “I These are good constraints.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Both companies work together to further develop and bring to market a highly efficient and cost-effective zero-emission transport refrigeration system based around the Dearman engine. New ideas create huge opportunities, and the Dearman Hubbard partnership is a chance to create a cost-effective, cleaner and more sustainable environment.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s been 25 years since University of Delaware energy and environmental expert Willett Kempton and Green Mountain College energy economist Steve Letendre outlined what they saw as a “dawning interaction between electric-drive vehicles and the electric supply system.” This is good for the grid. Their research partnership ran for four years.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Member grade: Member.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Major utilities were compelled to purchase high-cost peaking power, and because retail prices were capped, they could not pass their costs on to consumers. After earning a Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2009

This energy is then stored in the ultracapacitors bank which can provide 80% of the power required for acceleration. Riversimple worked with Oxford and Cranfield University on the power electronics, motors and control system. Riversimple plans to lease its cars, not sell them; fueling will be included in the lease cost.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wendy is a Professor of Political Science and Principles Research Chair at the University of British Columbia. And so the idea of datafication is simply to say that our lives are not just lived in the analog or physical world, but that actually they’re becoming digital. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

While electric vehicles are designed to store a high amount of energy because of the fundamental need to maximize the vehicle’s range, hybrid vehicles like EOLAB need to cover the same power requirement with a limited quantity of electrical energy. These tend to be bulky, heavy and costly, and consequently ill-suited to small cars.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Vendors such as Huawei, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Samsung, and ZTE are working alone or in collaboration with universities. But that strategy can double costs, or worse. Repeaters or relays can also improve coverage but here, too, the costs can be prohibitive. But which is preferable?

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MARCH 27, 2022

Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element). In the late 1940s, researchers immediately recognized the ability of the new magnetic materials to store data.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

Dr. Jack Saddler, Dean of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, is leading a C$1.1-million Trees are a huge store of chemical energy that can be converted into liquid biofuel—but we need to identify the ideal method to produce these sugars economically. million (US$1.0-million)

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Consider further the many varied devices and sensors now streaming data onto the Web, and the cars, airplanes, and other vehicles that store trip data for later use. All those billions of things on the Internet of Things produce data, and all that information also needs to be stored somewhere. How bad is the data storage problem?

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here to talk about the plan is Barath Raghavan, a member of the Computer Science Faculty at the University of Southern California. We communicate, we store our data, and we get things done both in personal context and in work context. There’s data at rest, which is the data that we’ve stored. Barath, welcome to the show.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The idea that they were getting some kind of vision, it was kind of electrifying—for the patients and the doctors.”. One Argus II patient estimated that the total cost of the device, surgery, and rehabilitation was $497,000. Typically, at least 80 percent of the device fee and most of the other costs were covered by insurance.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Iowa State University will bring its expertise in biorenewable technologies and pilot plant operations to the country’s 10th Manufacturing USA Institute. Such process intensification could boost manufacturing productivity while cutting costs and reducing waste. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

But it’s a challenging thing to do, and we haven’t yet figured out ways to do it at scale that are cost-effective and sustaining, meaning you’ve taken the carbon dioxide out and it stays out reliably. And so the cost of that right now is really, really high. But right now we’ve got some distance to go with any of these ideas.

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