Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

The US Departments of Agriculture and Energy (USDA and DOE) are awarding a total of $47 million to fund eight research and development projects that will support the production of biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products from a variety of biomass sources. University of Florida , Gainesville, Fla., Exelus, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2016

These projects, selected through collaborative research consortia, will leverage industry, university and laboratory expertise to accelerate advanced hydrogen storage technologies and fuel cell performance and durability. University of Missouri, St. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2015

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade (C 6 –C 18 ) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species. Total mass recovery was 94 wt%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

However, barriers related to algae cultivation, harvesting, and conversion to fuels and products need to be overcome to achieve the Department’s target of $3/gge for advanced algal biofuels by 2030. The projects selected include: Producing Algae and Co-Products for Energy (PACE), Colorado School of Mines. Global Algae Innovations, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut. Northwestern University. Northeastern University. University of Michigan.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 18, 2022

University chapters are the lifeblood of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu , the organization’s honor society. There are 269 chapters at universities worldwide. Support provided by universities to chapters varies widely, however—which can limit activities. A strong chapter helps ensure that members have a fulfilling experience.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

This represents the second highest increase in geothermal power capacity over a calendar year since the production tax credit (PTC) was extended to geothermal in 2005, and a 5% percent increase over 2011 year-end data. In 2012, seven new geothermal projects and additions came online in three different states.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) will award $41 million investment to 13 projects to drive more efficient biofuels production and feedstock improvements through genomics. This project enables creation of diverse product streams from this facility, opening new markets for the cooperative and contributing to the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The US Department of Energy will award $15 million to the Arizona State University-led Algae Testbed Public-Private Partnership (ATP 3 ) for its Advancements in Sustainable Algal Production opportunity. Testbed facilities for the partnership are physically located in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Ohio and Georgia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2010

Ballard Material Products, a US subsidiary of Ballard Power Systems, was awarded $4.1 The project for which Ballard Material Products will be prime is meant to improve the understanding of fuel cell materials and components degradation, leading to recommended mitigation strategies to facilitate further commercialization.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Very little is known about how ocean acidification may affect critical microbial groups like the ammonia oxidizers, “ key players in the ocean’s nitrogen cycle ,” says Michael Beman of the University of Hawaii and lead author of the PNAS paper. From the seas, nitrous oxide then enters the atmosphere, says Beman.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million to three research consortia to tackle key hurdles in the achieving the commercial scale production of algae-based biofuels. DOE share: up to $6 million). DOE funding: up to $9 million).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. refinery in Kapolei, Hawaii, is expected to start up in 2014. Source: UOP. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2013

For the production system at Brownstown, GM uses an integrated camera vision system is used to shoot a reference image of the weld area prior to the operation to achieve pinpoint accuracy. A novel microstructural classification method for the weld region of an ultrasonic metal weld is introduced to complete the weld quality characterization.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

This project will adapt hydrothermal spallation drilling technology to increase the effective diameter of wells and increase their production capacity. Stanford University. University of Hawaii. University of Nevada. Temple University. University of Texas. University of Texas. up to $680,000.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Over 1,000 miles away, the blast knocked out electricity supply in parts of Hawaii and disrupted telephone service for a period of time. Landmark research, the product of collaboration between the U.S. conducted an atmospheric test of a 1.45 In an interview, USGS geophysicist Jeffrey J.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

This continued shorter-term cooling response caused by certain emissions does not negate the necessity for reductions in CO 2 emissions, which are crucial to limiting the long-term warming impact of the sector, the researchers cautioned.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

“The main conclusion from this report is that oil production with microalgae will be expensive, even with relatively favorable process assumptions (e.g. productivity algae cultivation, high oil content, low cost harvesting and processing).” They assumed higher productivities due to plausible technological advances.

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Electric Auto Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

2022 Chapter of the Year (West): Hawaii EVA Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association operates at the state level, managing marketing, social media, Drive Electric Earth Day and National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) planning, webinars, and policy advocacy. Just as notably, the chapter also produces trainings for first responders.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.”

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Cars That Think

MARCH 1, 2023

The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. They typically connected to it with a teletypewriter, though the most avant-garde users may have employed simple text-only video terminals.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 21, 2017

I wound up inventing a hit toy for Mattel’s boys toys division ( the Street Sharks ) that saw life as an animated TV show and 50 different licensed products. We created the first ever catalog of National Park products and donated money to park projects all across the Country with our “ Every Sale Supports the Parks ” program.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

Material’s non-H 2 volatilization products should not exceed 1000 ppm for a single thermal cycle. Alternate methods of production using chemical synthesis have typically produced stable metal chloride byproducts that make it practically impossible to regenerate the alane. H 2 storage gravimetric density should be at least 5 wt%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 8, 2022

His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D. Date of birth Oct. MS, 1959, Ph.D.,

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 24, 2009

Given the much lower production costs in China, the first Chinese company to pass American certification could place an EV on the market in the US that would cost a consumer under $20,000 (after incentives.) In the future, any plug-in car must be able to charge at any public charger. The effort to get cars to market must remain our focus.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My wife, Zan, and I were recently on the Big Island, Hawaii, and while there we toured the state’s only geothermal plant. Hawaii's 30 megawatt geothermal control room. The rest of Hawaii’s electricity is generated by burning oil. Hawaii's 30 MW geothermal power plant. URL: [link]. By JOHN MARKOFF.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 15, 2010

After parading in Evs from City Hall to Denmark’s oldest University, mayors from around the world had something to say. Like Portland, like Paris, like Tel Aviv, like Tokyo, like Los Angeles, like Copenhagen, like Hawaii! Toronto would lead! warmer there by the way). Change is happening.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. but not all of it.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The Think City was short-lived in the States with production halting in 2002 after just 1005 cars had been assembled. Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. Simmons ; "Hot, Flat & Crowded by Thomas L.

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