Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are partnering with the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to develop UrbanSense, a comprehensive sensor network and real-time visualization platform that helps cities evaluate trends in urban activity. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. —Gautam Thakur.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
A team from the University of Illinois, Urbana and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing effects on water quantity and quality. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Atul Jain.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. This video from November 24, 2017 was taken as Charlie remotely operated a prototype robot in his unoccupied Atlanta home from rural Tennessee to take care of his family’s cat.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2013
—Wolfram Thomas, at the solar park launch event. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. At the launch event at Chattanooga, Thomas put the figure at $850 million, or €636 million.). Low-flow water fixtures and no-touch sensors throughout the plant reduce water usage by 30%.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
During pretreatment, acid, water, and heat work to remove non-cellulosic biomass from plant material. In total, the simulation tracked nine cellulose fibers, 468 lignin molecules, and 54 enzyme molecules in a rectangular water box. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2015
These events are deeply troubling. For example, here in the United States, Volkswagen’s manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee serves as a model for Volkswagen plants around the world for increasing energy efficiency and reducing emissions, water, and materials usage and waste.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2011
The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Lead Institution: University of South Florida. Lead Investigator: Jacqueline Dixon, Ph.D. Project Title: Center for Integrated Modeling and Analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem (C-IMAGE).
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