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In a companion study to an SAE paper presented in April ( earlier post ), researchers at MIT have quantified the net economic and CO 2 emissions benefit that could be obtained by utilizing 98 RON gasoline in light-duty vehicles, based on reasonable assumptions for possible refinery changes and the evolution of the LDV fleet.

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Armstrong, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. The study team of MIT faculty, researchers, and students focused on five main. The reference scenario assumes continued strengthening of fuel efficiency standards for LDVs, as well as expanded use of renewables for power generation. —MITEI Director Robert C.

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MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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A new economic analysis in an issue brief from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) is recommending that the Obama Administration set a fleet-wide car and light truck fuel economy standard of 60 mpg (3.92 The Obama Administration will release a Notice of Intent for 2017-2025 light duty fuel economy standards on 30 September.

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” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Source: IEA.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

This study did not attempt to assess the balance among these effects to determine whether introduction of a ULS jet-fuel standard is cost beneficial. To improve air quality, the adoption of a reduced-sulfur standard or a ULS jet fuel should be considered, but economic and climate costs and benefits must be weighed carefully.

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MARCH 9, 2021

A new deep-learning algorithm developed by MIT researchers is designed to help machines navigate in the real, imperfect world by building a healthy “skepticism” of the measurements and inputs they receive. They found that CARRL won more games than standard techniques, as the adversary’s influence grew. An adversarial world. Resources.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Unlike typical optical cameras, which can be blinded by bright light and unable to make out details in the dark, NTU’s new smart camera can record the slightest movements and objects in real time. Each pixel in the sensor can individually monitor the slope of change in light intensity and report an event if a threshold is reached.

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JUNE 9, 2023

The industry standard for dangerous and routine autonomous inspections just got better, now with a brand-new set of features and hardware. Together with the visitors of the Nerdland Festival, they created the longest chain of robots ever, which also respond to light. ARPL NYU ] BruBotics secured a place in the Guinness World Records!

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Such a design, as described at the Small Modular Reactors Symposium by MIT professors Jacopo Buongiorno, Michael Golay, and Neil Todreas, along with others from MIT, the University of Wisconsin, and Chicago Bridge and Iron, could ride out tsunamis.

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Offering a higher-octane gasoline to the consumer market in the US as the standard grade could deliver an incremental 4.5% without higher octane fuel, but with other projected vehicle and powertrain technology improvements), according to a new analysis by a team at MIT. reduction by then in the baseline case (i.e., Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

An analysis by a team from the University of California, Davis, MIT and Yale suggests that households that buy a fuel-efficient vehicle tend to compensate for that purchase by buying a bigger, more powerful second vehicle. This unintended effect could erode goals of fuel economy standard policies by up to 60%.

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JULY 18, 2022

For 15 years, my team at the University of Göttingen, in Germany, has been collaborating with colleagues at the University of Freiburg and beyond to reinvent the cochlear implant in a strikingly counterintuitive way: using light. Then, people all over the world could begin to hear the light. The first device was approved by the U.S.

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The semi-solid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang’s lab at MIT. (Dr. The materials design enables up to 5x the area capacity of standard Li-ion. Sepion Technologies’ vision is to develop ultra-light, high-power density Li-sulfur batteries for aviation.

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Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. In E Ink’s Triton and Kaleido displays, color filters turn light reflected from white particles into red, green, and blue subpixels. And the displays are good for eye comfort, because they don’t shine light directly at a user.

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This project will optimize fuel-based control of novel combustion strategies in light- and heavy-duty vehicles to enable diesel-like efficiencies with ultra-low engine-out emissions. Light-weighting materials. Demo Project for Multi-material light-weight prototype vehicle. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. 10,000,000.

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The research program involves eight core projects: Light Capture and Conversion. This project focuses on the discovery and development of semiconducting materials for solar light absorption. This project focuses on automated, high-throughput discovery of materials that can act as light absorbers or catalysts for solar-fuel generation.

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JULY 19, 2011

A 2010 NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) analysis concluded that V2V systems potentially could address 79% of all vehicle target crashes, 81% of all light-vehicle target crashes, and 71% of all heavy-truck target crashes annually. It also is standard on 2011-12 S60 sedans and 2012 model S80 sedans and XC70 wagons.

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Two of the largest emitters of these pollutants are vehicles and electricity generating units (EGUs), with some of the most densely populated regions in the US still failing to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards after 30 years of regulation. Tammy Thompson, (now at MIT), lead author. Tammy M Thompson et al. Environ.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Additionally, suggested one of the speakers, advanced SIDI (spark-ignited, direct-injection) engines can take light-duty market share back from diesels in Europe based on the same trends. The SULEV standard, established under the current LEV II regulation, is equivalent to the Federal Tier 2 Bin 2 standard. Robert Czarnowski.

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MARCH 27, 2022

This left the magnetic amplifier to play only minor roles, such as for light dimmers in theaters. Even the space shuttle used magnetic amplifiers to dim its fluorescent lights. Apollo Guidance Computer were built with core transistor logic, but in 1962 the designers at MIT made a risky switch to integrated circuits.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Then we figured out how to move those objects, shade them, and light them before rendering them as frames of a movie. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983. Luxo Jr. , This was huge.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. But the key difference with a standard camera is that an event camera works in differential mode.

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Researchers at MIT led by Drs. The MIT team found that a genetically engineered version of the M13 bacteriophage virus can be used to control the arrangement of the nanotubes on a surface, keeping the tubes separate so they can’t short out the circuits, and keeping the tubes apart so they don’t clump. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 11, 2023

light-duty vehicle fleet would produce around 16 times the output of stationary power plants. Kempton and Letendre also noted that the average light vehicle was used only around 4 percent of the time. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022).

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The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. Harvesting Infrared Light to Improve Photosynthetic Biomass Production - $1,347,122. Select OPEN 2021 projects include: Synteris.

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MAY 17, 2023

Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. It’s just mind-blowing, the amount of computation.” And it’s pretty damn good.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Amid the many tonnes of standard crew supplies, spacewalk equipment, computer hardware, and research experiments will be one unusual package: a pair of electronic textile swatches embedded with impact and vibration sensors. In this experiment, funded by the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative , the samples aren't being powered.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

The 1964 Oklahoma City tests involved more than 1,000 flights, which sparked more than 15,000 complaints, as documented in a 1971 report prepared by the National Bureau of Standards. This phenomenon causes sound waves to refract (bend) as they travel downward, just as light waves refract when moving between water and air or glass and air.

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Jenkins: We must at least be able to speak to society’s concerns, beyond just “Do the lights stay on?” So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., Jenkins: There’s the Big Wires Act that’s been introduced in Congress to set minimum standards for interregional transfer capacity. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?”

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The answer depends in part on whether such cars require a type of sensor called lidar, short for “light detection and ranging.” We and others at our company, Analog Photonics , which spun out of MIT in 2016, hope to break this impasse. It has no moving parts and generates, emits, and receives light with no external hardware.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes. Terrafugia’s ‘The Transition’ is a practical flying car.

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. The upper level will be for pedestrians and light weight vehicles like bicycles, Segways and electric bicycles. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc.,

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This Mirror Reverses How Light Travels in Time Nature Physics In an esoteric bit of research this year, a group of researchers based at universities in New York City discovered how to pass a signal through something called a “time interface”—the result being that the entire signal acted like it was moving back in time.

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Each device, called an optically pumped magnetometer (OPM), contains a laser that shines a beam through a cloud of rubidium atoms at a light detector. The Cerca scanner can help probe neurological disorders such as epilepsy, concussions, dementia and schizophrenia, "helping shed light on many severe and debilitating conditions," he says.

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MARCH 1, 2023

PARC, a Xerox company The new laboratory was to include sections intended to extend Xerox’s lock on patents surrounding the physical production of documents in offices, that is, materials like photoconductors—which become more electrically conductive when exposed to light—along with toners and optics, all key parts of copier technology.

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MARCH 16, 2016

According to the report, “On the Road Toward 2050: Potential for Substantial Reductions in Light-Duty Vehicle Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” each element is separately important, but must collectively be pursued aggressively to achieve necessary emissions reductions.

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