Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2024

Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. sustainable development goals.

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Uganda Panama Las Vegas 2007 73

Teslarati

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Then, while it was stacking Ship 24 on top of Super Heavy Booster 7 and installing Ship 25 on a test stand, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 54 new Starlink satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. According to CEO Elon Musk, B9 features significant improvements that will make it more resilient to mid-flight Raptor engine failures.

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Texas Florida Engine Installation 142

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2014

Less than a year after beginning engineering to scale the technology, the team has completed plant commissioning and has begun 24/7 system operation. — Rob Sues, CEO of ARA.

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Chevron Renewable Global Panama 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. MicroBio Engineering Inc., MicroBio Engineering Inc., Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000.

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

CHCJ-5, the 100% drop-in renewable jet fuel tested, is produced by Florida-based Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Chevron Lummus Global. Advantages of Biofuels ISOCONVERSION: Feedstock agnostic – compatible with a wide range of waste fats, oils, and greases – no pretreatment other than filtering required. Earlier post.)

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Alternative Fuels Chevron Maryland Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2016

dissipating energy due to deformation of the pavement structure)—results in wasted fuel because the dissipated energy does not contribute to the vehicle’s forward movement. Most of the world is looking from the tires up to understand how to produce less greenhouse gas,” Tom Pyle, pavement management engineer with Caltrans, told ENR.

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MIT California Fuel Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

Among their findings: The Nissan LEAF produces lower life cycle GHG emissions than the Prius HEV in urban counties of Texas, Florida, and much of the southwestern US. Framework for the analysis. Yuksel et al. Click to enlarge. In cold weather the Volt consumes both gasoline and electricity in CD mode.

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Gasoline Plug-in Prius Plug 150

Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 1, 2023

CES is cranking up this week so there’s not much time to waste thinking about the past year. We took to the road to report on most of the new EVs hitting the market, as well as plug-in hybrids, fuel cell electric vehicles, hybrids and the best of the legacy internal combustion engine models. That Was the Year That Was. and Europe.

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F-150 Las Vegas Ford Clean 86

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

Awardees must pursue projects that integrate science and engineering research in three areas: feedstocks development, biofuels and biobased products development, and biofuels development analysis. University of Florida , Gainesville, Fla., Domtar Paper Company, LLC , Fort Mill, SC, $7,000,000. Exelus, Inc. Livingston, NJ, $5,185,004.

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Grant Production Conversion Hawaii 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Research in this topic area will focus on ways to harvest lost energy, such as waste heat, within a power plant and use the power to operate the instruments and sensors that monitor plant performance. University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla. DOE Share: $299,956).

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Coal Universal Iowa Utah 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Site preparation and detailed engineering design work is currently underway, and the company expects to start construction before the end of the year. USDA has awarded conditional commitments for other plants in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Oregon. Earlier post.).

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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product. The company will procure, install and commission an engineered, scalable and duplicable generator unit to use the waste heat from an existing geothermal plant. Florida Canyon Mine, Nev. - $982,000. ElectraTherm, Inc. NRG Energy Inc.

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Louisiana Water Gas-Electric United States 199

Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Another trick that can be done with a heat pump (in cabin heating mode, anyway) is to capture the waste heat from the traction inverter, motor, etc, extending the temperature range over which it can operate without resorting to a backup source such as a resistance heater.

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Gas-Electric Waste Gas All-Electric 90

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

University of Florida - $894,042. The goal of this research area is to research and develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that will produce more energy and create less waste. Clemson University - $614,690. Drexel University - $1,149,327. Idaho State University - $650,000. Pennsylvania State University - $1,377,444.

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Universal Las Vegas Wisconsin North Carolina 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Cold temperatures, on the other hand, are particularly disadvantageous for BEVs, since vehicles with internal combustion engines can use engine waste heat for cabin heating, whereas in BEVs heat must be generated using limited onboard stored electrical energy.

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Emissions Range Grid Nissan 150

Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. Rather, he thought of scientific and engineering research as a type of religion, practiced at universities. He doesn’t yell or scream. Austin, Texas.

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New York City Iran New York MIT 104

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Vercipia is moving to commercialize cellulosic technology for the production of ethanol from a wide array of non-food feedstocks, including dedicated energy crops, agricultural waste, and wood products. Earlier post.)

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San Diego Legal Commercial Corporation 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Broward County Transit, Florida: $2,000,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Palm Tran, Florida: $320,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

LS9, a synthetic biology company developing fermentation-derived drop-in renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has acquired an existing production facility in Okeechobee, Florida. LS9 has engineered a one-step process using to convert fatty acid intermediates into petroleum replacement products via fermentation of renewable sugars.

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Florida Renewable Diesel Commercial 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience. Mr. Donovan, a member of The Florida Bar, The US District Court, Middle District of Florida and The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, holds a J.D. Donovan (20 December 2009). About the Author.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The latest from @SpaceX McGregor: A new Falcon Second Stage (including Merlin Vacuum engine) has been installed! Less than two weeks later, that same upper stage may have arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida. But THIS one has some very special markings… *N A S A*, including both the NASA Worm and the Meatball!

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Florida Installation 2020 Engine 144

Cars That Think

JUNE 7, 2022

Many IEEE members credit a parent or a teacher for encouraging them to pursue an engineering career, but for Erol Gelenbe it was his next-door neighbor in his hometown of Ankara, Turkey. Because electrical engineering uses a lot of mathematics, a subject Gelenbe liked, he figured he wouldn’t be wasting his time by studying EE.

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Universal Turkey France Michigan 130

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Blue Frontier, LLC (Parkland, Florida). APEX Petroleum Engineering (Englewood, Colorado). Caltrode, Inc.

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Gregory Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a new way to boost yeast tolerance to ethanol by simply altering the composition of the medium in which the yeast are grown. —Felix Lam, lead author.

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Industrial Industry MIT Production 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Camelina will be engineered with. The team will engineer tobacco with traits.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charged : For example, one of your customers has a site where they’re not allowed to do any digging because of hazardous waste. In California, you end up having to clean, do remediation, and take all the spoils to Kettleman City [the site of a hazardous waste facility]. I would never have thought of that. Desmond: Yes.

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Grid Solar Charging Power 143

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

To that end, engineers at the U.S. As a result, power generation and demand may be unevenly distributed across a region: One microgrid where demand is low or generation is high may have excess generation that goes to waste, while another microgrid nearby may have to disconnect electrical loads due to insufficient generation or high demand.

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Puerto Rico Connect Connected Solar 143

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. onto and off the roof rapidly, if necessary.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Home Business Industry Sectors Engineering MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times April 19, 2009 Slow start for charge of the electric cars Ray Hutton Electric cars need a boost. Why does everybody state Tesla as US, When this is UK engineering from Norfolk in Great Britian? Post to Fark Post to Yahoo!

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Electric Cars Charging G-Wiz Cars 30

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions. About the Author.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Another potential use of allowance value is to provide the general public a “dividend” related to the public’s having granted firms the right to make use of the waste-disposal services of the atmosphere through their emissions. Donovan is an engineer and attorney with over thirty-four years of international business experience.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244