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BMW: Water Injection Can Boost Power And Cut Fuel Consumption

Green Car Reports

Electric cars and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles may get a lot of attention, but every carmaker is still searching for ways to improve the fuel efficiency of internal-combustion engines.

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Henkel wins Surcar Global environmental footprint impact award for automotive paint pre-treatment process

Green Car Congress

Henkel is the first winner of the Surcar International Award for Environmental Footprint with its Bonderite Thin Film 1800 Series zirconium oxide pre-treatment process for car bodies. The Surcar Congress for the body finishing and painting industry was inaugurated in 1964 in France. In addition, it produces far less solid waste.

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The Paris Olympics Promise to Be Stunning. The Prices Already Are.

Baua Electric

The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics promises to be spectacular: On the glittering waters of the Seine, a flotilla of barges will carry about 10,000 athletes to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as nearly half a million spectators line the four-mile route to cheer on the event of the century. But get ready to pay up.

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Video Friday: The Coolest Robots

Cars That Think

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. FRC ] ANYmal is rated IP67 for water resistance, but this still terrifies me.

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Holtec and Mitsubishi Electric partnering to advance SMR-160 small modular reactor program

Green Car Congress

The containment is a steel structure that will serve to dissipate heat to the environment using passive cooling for a design basis event. The reactor system is designed to withstand the strongest Design Basis Earthquake postulated for any existing US or international nuclear plant location. An SMR-160 installation takes up less than 4.5

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Researchers use LCLS x-ray laser to view simultaneously the structure and chemical behavior of Photosystem II catalyst; major step in studying catalytic processes

Green Car Congress

An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look simultaneously at the structure and chemical behavior of the Photosystem II catalyst involved in photosynthesis for the first time. Credit: Greg Stewart, SLAC) Click to enlarge.

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Researchers Discover How Oxygen Attacks Hydrogen-Producing Enzymes in Photosynthetic Organisms; Insight Could Assist Identification of New Pathways for Bio-Hydrogen Production

Green Car Congress

An international team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France have discovered how oxygen stops photosynthetic organisms such as green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help advance development of the microbial production of hydrogen from sunlight and water.

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