Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
Ford is applying MuCell microcellular foam technology ( earlier post ) in the instrument panel of the all-new Escape. Invented by MIT, and subsequently acquired by Trexel in 1995, the MuCell process was initially created for development and commercial use in the injection molding industry worldwide.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Graphic / Ruben Juanes, MIT. Researchers at MIT have elucidated how underground methane in frozen regions—e.g., gas hydrate accumulations in ocean sediments and permafrost—escapes. Video / Ruben Juanes and Antone Jain, MIT. Click to enlarge. Ruben Juanes. This research was funded by the US Department of Energy.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 2, 2011
Researchers at MIT have found a way to use thermophotovoltaic devices—solid-state devices that use the sun’s heat, usually concentrated with mirrors, to generate electricity directly—without mirrors to concentrate sunlight, potentially making the system much simpler and less expensive. similar to the greenhouse effect).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 11, 2012
Researchers at MIT, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, say they have found a solution, described recently in the RSC journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The MIT team’s new method would instead use passive coatings on the insides of the pipes that are designed to prevent the hydrates from adhering.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
He served as Chief Engineer for Ford’s hybrid technologies during 2003 and was also Chief Engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003. Dr. Jennifer Rupp, Professor of Electrochemical Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and TU Munich (TUM). Rita Lane, former Vice President of Operations, Apple Inc.,
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. But in this process the oxygen ions become more mobile, which can cause them to escape from the cathode particles.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 16, 2024
Perhaps the requirement that a robot is mechanical and electronic is too strict, although as Čapek himself realized a hundred years ago, what defines a robot has escaped from the control of anyone, even its creator. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. Here then is his column from 1935, excerpted from R.U.R.
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