Green Car Congress
MARCH 15, 2016
Shell and its joint venture announced the start of oil production from the third phase of the deep-water Parque das Conchas (BC-10) development in Brazil’s Campos Basin. The system uses 1,500-horsepower underwater pumps—each equivalent to a Formula One engine—to drive oil and a small quantity of gas to the surface.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Auger was Shell’s first deep-water tension-leg platform. —Marvin Odum.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 11, 2010
POET plans to decrease water use in the production of ethanol by 22% over the next five years in the first goal of its sustainability initiative, Ingreenuity. If successful, it will cut the company’s water used per gallon of ethanol from an average of 3 gallons to 2.33, an annual water savings of one billion gallons. Caro (Mich.)
Cars That Think
JULY 29, 2023
The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. As an engineer, normally we tend to be very technical.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 8, 2024
The award is sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering. Once I discovered it, I found that I loved it.” After earning her Ph.D.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Indago flies above structures engulfed in flames and maps out the hot zones, on which K-Max then drops flame retardant or water. Kingsley Fregene Saving lives in Nigeria Fregene’s aim to keep people safe started with his first after-school job, as a bus conductor, when he was in the sixth grade. Not Fregene.
Drive Electric
AUGUST 9, 2022
To answer these questions, we collaborated with Envirostrat to investigate some of the most common questions and concerns about the environmental impact that increased EV uptake will have on NZ, and in particular, how they really compare to ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles). In comparison, EV engines run on lithium batteries.
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