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Study finds GWP of electrolyzed hydrogen to meet ORD’s fuel needs would be 2.5x that of fossil fuels with 2020 grid mix

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Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Or is it better to liquefy it on site at the airport?

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Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

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Like Google Maps, Apple’s Maps app offers mass transit and cycling directions to places if you’d like to skip taking a car. Google and Apple offer to automatically add reservations and events from email and messages to your calendar. However, the default apps on your phone are not the only aids.

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Pike forecasts growth for wireless charging for plug-in vehicles, but tied to overall growth of plug-in market

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Sacramento will round out the previously announced list of Apollo participants including Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, Duke Energy, Google, DTE Energy, and The Hertz Corporation. Penetration in 2012 was only a fraction of 1% of vehicles sold.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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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. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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Areas of consideration include breakthroughs in climate change, water resource management, energy distribution & storage, clean energy, energy efficiency/use. Water Resource Management : watershed, sewage, conservation, desalination. The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP).

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. Her system uses an image-processing algorithm with a real-time deep neural network that filters through images and video of the water to detect rip currents.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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