Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. This first prototype achieved 70% of the performance that is obtained when an equivalent device is filled with water.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

If it had ever left the spotlight, nuclear fusion is certainly now back. There have recently been new books , big announcements from small fusion companies , and the widely-shared news of a new record for energy produced at the National Ignition Facility , at the U.S. As the joke goes, fusion is always 40 years away.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z pulsed-power accelerator have produced a significant output of fusion neutrons, using a method fully functioning for only little more than a year. The method could be useful as a future energy source if the individual fusion pulses can be sequenced like the firing of an automobile’s cylinders.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

News of a major breakthrough in fusion technology has recently swept through the media outlets. Not much yet, but most likely it will open the flood gates to additional funding for future fusion research. Once fusion is truly established and on the grid the price of electricity will plummet, then it will all be about batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

The new engine will be first introduced in China in the all-new Ford Mondeo, making its public debut later this month at Auto Shanghai 2013 ( earlier post ), with applications following in the Fusion sedan in North America this year, and later the new Mondeo in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2012

The new 2013 Ford Fusion continues use of recycled and sustainable materials including recycled cotton from jeans, recycled car battery casings, recycled clear plastic bottles and soybeans. Fusions can contain: Denim material equivalent to slightly more than two average-sized pairs of blue jeans.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., More and more people are becoming interested in it.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

SimplexGrinnell, a Tyco International Company and provider of fire and life safety systems and services, recently ordered 200 Ford Fusion Hybrids as part of a company-wide effort to replace 25% of its sales fleet with hybrid vehicles. SimplexGrinnell’s fleet management company. It began on 22 April 2010 and runs through 1 July 2010.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. Number one?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

The fusion of the vehicle data with the swarm data of other vehicles is another new feature. The increased power and efficiency of the electric drive motor in the ID.7 Adaptive lane guidance is another function that has been enhanced. As an example, the ID.7

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MARCH 21, 2024

Although recent finding s have poured cold water on quantum computing hype, don’t count the technology out yet. Fusion Reactions In 2022, the National Ignition Facility made headlines with the first inertial fusion reaction to produce more energy than was put directly into it.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Humankind is enamored with water. The machine, which can run autonomously or at the direction of a remote operator, goes around collecting the junk and gunk (like plastic bottles, oil spills, and algae) that float on the water, as well as detritus located up to 10 meters below the surface. But it’s actually a tokamak fusion reactor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2014

Tires rely on grooves between the treads to evacuate water and maintain grip with the road. Until now, tires traditionally lost traction in wet conditions as the tread became worn and grooves lost depth decreasing the tire’s ability to funnel water away, increasing stopping distances and the chances of hydroplaning. Ardmore, Okla.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Petaluma, Calif.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It isn't just Hyundai and Kia in deep water over misleading MPG claims--now Ford is the subject of a lawsuit over the MPG of its hybrid models. The federal lawsuit concerns the fuel economy of its most recent hybrid models, the C-Max Hybrid and Fusion Hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

Advanced Sensing for Characterization and Sorting of Non-Recyclable Plastics Using Sensor Fusion with Artificial Intelligence. Decontamination of Non-recyclable MSW and Preprocessing for Conversion to Diesel. UHV Technologies. University of Cincinnati. 2,089,767.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2014

The project, funded by DTE Energy, will provide employees with 360 covered parking spaces and 30 charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles such as the company’s Ford Fusion Energi and C-MAX Hybrid Energi. Multiple varieties of sedum were planted to reduce storm water runoff from the building.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

To date, the initiative has sponsored hundreds of energy-related projects ranging from unconventional sources of hydrocarbons to renewables and nuclear fusion. The MITEI program pairs world-class research teams with the energy companies responsible for commercializing the technology. —Ellen Williams, BP’s Chief Scientist.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Efficient and Safe Hydrogen Refueling of Fuel Cell Vehicles from an Emergency Chemical Hydride Storage Source – Skyhaven Systems, LLC (Steamboat Springs, CO) will model spatial and temporal variation of heat and mass transfer in a lithium hydride/water-based hydrogen refueler. Strategic Power Systems, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

Engines that could be deployed in the relatively near term could also use high rpm operation and /or water injection, to allow operation with a very small amount of alcohol in addition to a low concentration mixture such as E10 (or possibly with no additional alcohol). Ethanol or methanol would be employed to increase knock resistance.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2014

The technology is potentially applicable to other forms of seated-passenger transportation, including military use, and airborne passengers traveling by helicopter or airplane, and even for water travel. In everyday use, inflatable safety belts operate like conventional safety belts.

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JULY 1, 2011

Roughly 63 billion atoms were simulated on a supercomputer with more than 200,000 processors to analyze a physical phenomenon as familiar to us as the effects of wind blowing over a body of water. Click to enlarge. 1 ranking on the industry-standard Top500 list of the world’s most powerful computers for nearly four years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2014

and utilizing a Ford Fusion Energi Plug-In Hybrid, Siemens provided the first UL-approved residential electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) to demonstrate the ability to monitor status, report energy use, and be controlled locally from the local area network and from the cloud. Held at the Duke Energy Envision Center in Erlanger, Ky.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

To confirm that hydrogen peroxide buildup was the problem and to simultaneously test whether its depletion might enhance alkane production, Shanklin and his team added another enzyme, catalase (CAT), which metabolizes hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water. —John Shanklin.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

High-Fidelity Whole Device Modeling of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasma, Amitava Bhattacharjee (PPPL) with ANL, ORNL, LLNL, Rutgers, UCLA, University of Colorado. Cloud-Resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth's Water Cycle, Mark Taylor (SNL) with ANL, LANL, LLNL, ORNL, PNNL, UCI, CSU. Dunning, Jr.

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MARCH 21, 2022

For 125 years they had been used to pump water out of mines and then to power the mills of the Industrial Revolution. I’m less confident that we’ll see general-purpose quantum computers and abundant electricity from nuclear fusion in that time frame. But steam engines themselves had been invented at the beginning of the 18th century.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

Past themes have included topics as diverse as the role of big data and the energy-water nexus. In-cylinder catalysis for ATR: Piston driven chemical reactors; Leslie Bromberg, Plasma Science and Fusion Center; William Green, chemical engineering; Wai Cheng, mechanical engineering; John Brisson, mechanical engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It will also include a small spacecraft capable of "hopping" to explore shadowed craters for evidence of potential water ice, a resource that, if present, could be used in the future for both propulsion and supplies for astronauts. Chang'e-7 will target a lunar south pole landing and consist of an orbiter, relay satellite, lander, and rover.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2011

Ford offers customers for Crew Chief powered by Telogis a range of exclusive benefits, including alerts and reports for safety belt status, oil life remaining, water-in-diesel, tire pressure and air bag status. Data shared includes exact fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, tire pressure and diagnostic codes such as water in fuel.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

5GW is a fairly modest amount of energy, but when I first read the Prime Minister’s piece written for the Financial Times (subscription), where he wrote of producing hydrogen from water, I thought this was about electrolysis. More on this later, but on producing hydrogen from water, there is a major drawback.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2016

The most recent example can be found in the preliminary trials of the HP Multi Jet Fusion technology. The BMW Group celebrated the first successful use of this technology in small-series production in 2010, with the additively-manufactured water pump wheel still fitted in DTM vehicles to this day.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 15, 2022

The sun is like a giant fusion generator, from which mankind currently exploits a tiny amount of energy. The starting point for my thinking about clean energy is how to create and store energy sustainably and for the long term, and how to provide a constant source of power for the future of productive life. Neuralink: Empowering the Disabled.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. Fusion Petroleum Technologies intends to develop seismic data software to complement existing software. Coal storage factors such as coal failure and permeability enhancement, matrix swelling and shrinking, and competition of water as adsorbed phase on coals will be addressed.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

at Best Friend , Roy Choi’s fantastic-but-deafening Korean fusion spot at the Park MGM. Ours is a Vegas in bed by midnight, mostly sober, anthropologically fascinated with day clubbers and perpetually dismayed at the volume of restaurant music. I’m going to spin after this guy’s done,” my father said one night, threatening to replace the D.J.

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