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Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Or is it better to liquefy it on site at the airport?

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Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

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Search engines enhanced by artificial intelligence can help with your research and outline full itineraries. Like Google Maps, Apple’s Maps app offers mass transit and cycling directions to places if you’d like to skip taking a car. Certain older apps have recently been updated to suggest more eco-friendly travel options.

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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation. Penetration in 2012 was only a fraction of 1% of vehicles sold.

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News: 2025 Cadillac Optiq EV

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model to be built in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico All-Wheel Drive Two trims: Sport and Luxury What the Optiq Brand Team Said Performance starts on the ground Tom Schinderle – Lead Development Engineer – Tom is responsible for all the performance metrics and hardware on the Optiq. kW – 55 miles per hour w/19.2

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New Nissan Note to make world premiere at Geneva show; as low as 95 g/km CO2

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The B-segment offering will feature a package of driver assistance and safety technologies, along with three engine options, with CO 2 outputs from as low as 95 g/km. Both new Note gasoline engines displace 1,198cc and are lightweight, compact and efficient three-cylinder 12-valve units. Further up the range is the 1.2-liter

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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A precise amount of ground biomass is fed into a moving tray; at the first heating and processing stage, the function is to drive off entrapped water, and to perform the first step of de-hydration of the biomass while mechanically compacting it for more effective heat transfer at later stages of processing. Depending on the temperature (300

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EE’s are one engine of innovation and the driving in digital technology. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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