Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway
Electrek
MARCH 5, 2024
Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches.
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Electrek
MARCH 5, 2024
Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2023
Synhelion and its partner the University of Florida announced that their joint project has been awarded US$2.7 The project aims to enable large-scale production of green hydrogen from solar energy by leveraging concentrating solar power (CSP) infrastructure and solar heat to split water (H 2 O) into hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ).
Electrek
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Recently, the Voltari team took the 260 out from Florida through the Gulf Stream waters to the Bahamas on a single charge. more… The post This electric performance boat voyaged from Florida to the Bahamas on a single charge appeared first on Electrek.
Teslarati
JANUARY 31, 2023
SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019. In late 2021, SpaceX finally began constructing the second iteration of Starship’s first Florida pad. SpaceX stress-tests the first ‘chopsticks’ with water bags. SpaceX has, nonetheless, made significant progress.
Teslarati
JANUARY 19, 2023
SpaceX appears to be preparing to ship a huge collection of hardware – including parts of a possible launch deluge system – from Florida to Texas. A large volume of water sprayed into the space just below a rocket’s engines can prevent the immense acoustic energy (sound) they produce from wreaking havoc.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Using recent advances in technology and newly developed equipment and software, SQUID-5 enables researchers to collect high-resolution images in shallow-water environments. The SQUID-5 system was originally designed to map nearshore coral reefs, an environment characterized by complex seabed surfaces in shallow, clear water.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. Once treated, the clean water could be re-used for beneficial purposes, including supplemental cooling water at a power station.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
In the storm surge in Florida that accompanied Hurricane Ian in September 2022, many vehicles were submerged at least partially in salt water. Review of vehicle registration found that there are more than 7,000 EVs in Lee County, Florida, with the potential for damage.
Teslarati
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
After the Cybertruck was spotted on display at showrooms in San Jose and San Diego on Monday, the vehicle has now made its way to at least a few more stores, including some in New York and Florida. The Tesla store in New York is in the Manhattan Meatpacking district, while the location in Florida is at the Tampa International Mall.
Clean Fleet Report
DECEMBER 3, 2022
On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwestern Florida. Recent reports suggest several EVs caught fire due to water damage caused by severe flooding in the most heavily impacted areas. The Effects of Water Damage in EVs. EV batteries don’t like salt water. EV Fires in Florida After Hurricane Ian.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
One year into the ERDC project, the team demonstrated a three-step approach that “cleans” the water, removes the algae and entrained nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, and transforms the algae into a potential energy source. In 2019, the ERDC conducted a baseline pilot study of the three stages of HABITATS.
Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2021
A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has installed the first seaweed farm in Puerto Rico and US tropical waters. Additional farms are being tested in Florida and Belize to assess scalability. —Loretta Roberson.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2017
A team of scientists from Penn State and Florida State University have developed a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst consisting of synthesized stacked graphene and W x Mo 1–x S 2 alloy phases that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 8, 2010
The first forum, Launch: Water, will take place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 16-18 March. NASA announced its founding partnership of “ Launch ”, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.
Electrek
JANUARY 21, 2022
Petersburg Power and Sailboat Show in Florida. The Duffy Bayshore 18 is a zero-emission, low-maintenance boat that offers up to 12 hours of fun on the water. Today Ultra-Yacht announced its first-ever All-Electric Duffy Boat featuring a solar charging option at the St. Petersburg show appeared first on Electrek.
CleanTechnica EVs
AUGUST 22, 2022
It seems that driving into a large amount of standing water in the midst of a ginormous Florida thunderstorm tore it off. (Or I recently lost one of the original aero hubcaps our Tesla Model 3 SR+ came with. Or it was stolen.) It was quite sad to lose a hubcap, and a couple of days […].
Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2010
University of South Florida researchers say they have definitively connected clouds of degraded underwater oil found in the northern Gulf of Mexico to the Deepwater Horizon well (MC252) through Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA). What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2022
Lian, the principle investigator of the project, will be joined by collaborators Rahul Rahul, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Suvranu De, Florida A&M University-Florida State University; Lu Cai, Idaho National Laboratory Program; Patrick Shower, GE Global Research Center; and Eric Brown, US Army Benét Laboratory.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 24, 2012
Our tool provides a simple method to integrate disparate climate and population data sources and develop preliminary per capita water availability projections at a global scale. At that time, it was unusual to integrate population, climate and water data into one model. —Esther Parish, lead author. —Esther Parish.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 5, 2010
A spinout from work at the University of South Florida is developing a new Fischer-Tropsch-based (FT) process to produce hydrocarbon transportation fuels—initially jet fuel—from biomass. Instead of using an iron catalyst as in conventional FT systems, COSI Catalysts Inc. has developed a new cobalt silica-supported eggshell design catalyst.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2009
The project will seek to combine several technologies developed by Dr. Lonnie Ingram at the University of Florida. facility and will be built with the aid of $20 million allocated by the Florida Legislature. Buckeye Technologies Inc., The plant will employ cellulosic ethanol production technology now licensed to Verenium Corp.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
However, a custom truck specialist in Florida has reimagined the Rivian pickup for “Apocalyptic” level performance with an entirely customized exterior complete with LED lights, a roll cage, and even Kevlar paint. As a result, the pickup sits 81″ high – plenty of clearance from mud and water, as you’ll see in the video below.
Clean Fleet Report
APRIL 8, 2023
As far south as you can drive The Florida Keys Spring break leads many to travel south, and the Florida Keys are as far south as travelers can go in the lower 48 states. The Overseas Highway offers a 113-mile route from the southern tip of Florida through the Florida Keys to Key West.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2019
24M CTO Naoki Ota will present the Dual Electrolyte System at the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida later this month. Using compositionally distinct electrolytes is a game changer for battery manufacturing and we’ve proven the fundamental technology. —Rick Feldt, President and CEO of 24M.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 10, 2021
The compelling result supports predictions from experiments led by co-senior author Ralf Kaiser, professor of chemistry at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and quantum chemistry simulations formulated by co-senior author Alexander Mebel, professor of chemistry at Florida International University. Zagidullin, Valeriy N.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2018
Nafion has a complex multiscale phase-separated morphology with well-connected hydrophilic domains in which sulfonate-lined water channels percolate through a hydrophobic, semicrystalline polytetrafluoroethylene-like matrix. While the exact structure remains controversial, the water channels are thought to be nominally cylindrical.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 15, 2017
UF/IFAS scientists like sorghum because it can be cultivated twice a year in Florida, requires little fertilizer, uses water efficiently and can be drought resistant. Once researchers grew and harvested the sorghum, they took it to the UF/IFAS Stan Mayfield Biorefinery Pilot Plant in Perry, Florida.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
The vessel will be used to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel to cruise ships along the east coast of Florida, USA. This will be the first fueling barge with a Wärtsilä solution operating in US waters, and is seen as being an important logistics link for the growth of LNG as a marine fuel in the USA.
Teslarati
JANUARY 22, 2023
15, 2023, from @NASAKennedy in Florida. Similar in concept to the contrails produced by aircraft at high altitudes, Falcon Heavy produced a giant exhaust plume as it climbed out of Earth’s atmosphere, and that exhaust – containing a small amount of water vapor – created artificial clouds. What an insane shot!
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2011
Lead Institution: Florida State University. Lead Institution: University of South Florida. Lead Investigator: Eric Chassignet, Ph.D. Project Title: Deep-C: Deepsea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Lead Institution: Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Lead Investigator: Nancy N. Rabalais, Ph.D.
Teslarati
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Set to kick off the diverse trio is the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft, a roughly $1.2 SWOT, a roughly two-ton (~4400 lb) satellite, is designed to conduct the first global survey of all surface water on Earth using two large synthetic aperture radar (SAR) antennas and a conventional radar altimeter.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 4, 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has designated Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, a national center for ocean energy research and development. As a public institution of higher education, Florida Atlantic University will also promote public awareness of ocean energy research and development.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2014
The California Air Resources Board has fined 12 shipping companies a combined $476,750 for failure to switch from high-sulfur diesel “bunker” fuel to cleaner, low-sulfur marine distillate fuel upon entering Regulated California Waters, as required by state law. Florida, USA) - $27,750 Vessel name: Ocean Crescent. BigLift Shipping B.V.
Green Car Congress
MAY 21, 2013
Trade-off analysis map showing the available and least expensive water option for each site. Sites where water supply costs are. Achieving larger production volumes would require the utilization of less water-efficient sites and relatively expensive saline waters, they suggested. —Erik Venteris, first author.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Improving photosynthetic efficiency will also help the plant conserve limited resources such as water and nitrogen, particularly under stress. Energycane will be evaluated at Florida and Mississippi, and Miscanthus will be tested at Illinois. —Stephen Long.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 6, 2010
of the University of Central Florida, will develop sea level rise computer models to predict the impacts storms and rising water pose to the northern Gulf’s coastline, including shoreline and barrier island erosion. Partners in the study will also include representatives from the Northwest Florida Water Management District.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
Kasdin also said that Proterro is in the process of commissioning a pilot plant in Florida and has completed a preliminary design, layout and associated cost estimate for a demonstration-scale plant. Using CO~2, sunlight and water, Proterro lowers the cost of sugar production to around $0.05/lb —Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Hours after its twin’s launch, Hotbird 13G arrived in Florida in a custom Airbus Beluga XL transport jet (its first visit to the US since 2009) and will soon begin preparing for its own ride on a SpaceX rocket as early as November 2022. It delivered the Airbus-built HOTBIRD 13G satellite for @Eutelsat_SA.
Teslarati
JUNE 7, 2021
Minutes later, SpaceX began loading unusual hardware onto the drone ship and it soon became clear that preparations were underway to transport OCISLY from Florida to California. Before / After Check out the height difference of OCISLY droneship after 24 hours of pumping out the water ballast.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2015
The LNG-powered ships will also include a ballast water treatment system, making them the greenest ships of their size. Upon delivery in late-2015, the Jones Act-qualified ships will operate between Jacksonville, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
wind and fog), successfully targeting a variety of aerial targets at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Under windy, rainy and foggy weather conditions in Florida, these engagements were the most challenging to date with a 10-kilowatt laser on HEL MD.
Teslarati
MARCH 7, 2022
The Clipper’s primary goal is to determine whether Europa hosts conditions suitable for life in an immense liquid water ocean that lies under its icy surface. Then it’s off to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for an October 2024 launch.” NASA has selected SpaceX to launch the ~$4.25 NASA – March 3rd, 2022. Falcon Heavy, 2019.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
The Bunge pilot plant will replicate the operations of Proterro’s US pilot plant in Orlando, Florida, where four photobioreactors are currently deployed. Proterro’s photobioreactor, cyanobacteria and its entire sugar-making process have been granted patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Green Car Congress
MAY 28, 2009
Ted Schuur, University of Florida and lead author of the study. A study in Nature Geoscience in March warned that warmer water temperatures could shift ocean currents in a way that would raise sea levels off the Northeast by about 8 inches (20 cm) more than the average global sea level rise. Permafrost.
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