Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated, a practical and affordable way to store
fuel consumption is 80 percent lower, and consequently, the produced amount of CO2 is decreased by 80 percent,
The Fueloyal Is A Smart Fuel Cap For Truckers Breaker breaker 10-4 good buddy.
This robotic fuel cap essentially keeps track of the fuel poured into your vehicle independently of the truck itself
and lets fleet owners ensure they no one is stealing the fuel poured into their 18-wheelers.
and fuel prices going up it important to control costs, said Hristov. The product is being built now
and prevents siphoning. ompany owners can install it on the fuel tank in less than a minute.
The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and other unnamed investors.
#Cheaper Sensors Will Fuel The Age Of Smart Everything For better or worse, we are about the enter the age of smart everything.
the tiny devices that fuel the Internet of things are getting smaller and cheaper all the time. As they do,
The Devotec Micro Fuel Charger a key ring sized fuel cell cellphone charger added about 20-30 minutes of extra talk time
or to a consumer-centric app like Unmooch to split the cost of fuel with friends.
The app is designed to help drivers determine their actual income taking fuel costs and time spent waiting around into account.
but now with data from Automatic, drivers will have exact numbers on the fuel burning while waiting for another fare.
and relatively small changes in fuel prices are enough to counteract the emissions reductions that have resulted from greater solar
#Shape-Shifting Carbon Composites Could Save Fuel Airbus and researchers at MIT are developing shape-shifting materials that could make aircraft simpler and lighter potentially saving fuel.
Made of carbon fiber composites the materials shift between two or more shapes in response to changes in heat air pressure or other environmental factors.
#An Industrial-Size Generator That Runs on Waste Heat, Using No Fuel Power plants waste huge amounts of energy as heat about 40 to 80 percent of the total in the fuel they burn.
A new device could reduce that waste cutting fuel consumption and carbon emissions by as much as 3 percent and saving companies millions of dollars.
The generator could save those companies millions in fuel Scullin says. There aren t many levers these companies can pull to reduce costs that much he adds.
Even improved thermoelectric materials however are unlikely to reduce fuel consumption by more than 5 or 10 percent.
which can be used as a fuel and is stored easily. Michael Graetzel, who directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne
That s a reality that businesses must embrace to attract the best employees and leverage their talents to fuel true innovation.
The weight savings could reduce fuel consumption by 10 percent, according to an auto industry consortium. As the company scales up production, one key question will be
and could therefore save trucking companies millions of dollars in fuel every year. The trucks were fitted with technology developed by a startup called Peloton Tech (elotonis The french word for platoon.
Joshua Switkes, CEO of Peloton Tech, says the fuel savings are 4. 5 percent for the front truck and 10 percent for the rear truck.
and streams vehicle data to a smartphone app to help users track their driving, their fuel economy,
or perhaps be better factories for useful molecules like fuels and drugs. Already the researchers have shown that inducing mutation in yeast using the designer sites led to some cells that grow more slowly,
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
As for power, the Blade is equipped with a 700-horsepower bi-fuel engine that can use both compressed natural gas or gasoline,
The auto industry's reliance on Rh has helped fuel significant price volatility in the past, with prices ranging from $890 to $10, 100 per troy ounce during the past 10 years.
and as OEMS move toward more fuel efficient turbo-charged GDI engines and hybrids. Benchmark testing of BMARS technology was conducted on a model year 2014 Buick vehicle with a 2. 0 liter engine
"Mitra's distillation process runs on energy-efficient fuels such as waste heat, an industrial by-product, and solar energy.
#Gallium Phosphide Nanowires Significantly Increase Efficiency of Solar fuel Cells The solar cell made of gallium phosphide (Gap) generates clean fuel hydrogen gas from Water gap is a compound containing phosphide and gallium which also acts
If these reactions produce fuel, then solar fuels would become a promising alternative for polluting fuels.
or can be utilized as a clean fuel source in the chemical industry, for instance in cars to drive engines.
and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogenic compounds formed from incomplete combustion of fuels, from contaminated soil. The process is irreversible
and you'd like to pack in as much energy in the form of burnable fuel as possible,
the fuel must have the right boiling point distribution, and then it has to have called properties lubricity,
which means the temperature at which the fuel becomes gelatinous and therefore no longer flows. When you are up in the stratosphere,
so you do not want your fuel gelling up on you.""He added:""What we have developed meets all of those criteria."
when there were a number of test flights using a blend of conventional fuel and biofuel. In February 2008, the first commercial flight partly powered by biofuel (derived from a mixture of babassu nuts
After a lengthy review by aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and fuel producers, biofuels were approved for commercial use in 2011.
Prof Bell said the team were hopeful that their findings would ultimately be adopted by commercial fuel producers."
"Food v fuel In recent years, political support for biofuels has waned as concern grew that global demand for biofuels would result in a switch away from food production to biofuel production, exacerbating food security worries.
"If, for example, we were to use sugar beet instead of sugarcane then there would be a potential conflict over fuel versus food."
and so improve fuel efficiency, he says. And making one 3d part often replaces the need to combine several smaller parts,
and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel. Previously, flights on biofuels had been limited to a 50 percent blend with petroleum making this a major breakthrough.
California that will produce biofuels and bioenergy at prices competitive with unsubsidized conventional fuel and power.
A domestic biofuel industry means we grow fuels at home instead of importing them from abroad o
#What Will It Take for the U s. to Maintain Leadership in the Biopharma Industry? The biopharmaceutical industry is an important contributor to U s. economic growth and sustainability,
If you average that out to about $30 per day, that $210 in fuel savings per week
but the savings regardless of the £ to $ exchange rate will be substantial for those driving these fuel efficient vehicles over in London.
Forget the food-versus-fuel debate: many of the crops grown in the valley are high-value products that are lucrative,
while clean fuel is culled from the manure, moisture is extracted also and then recycled so local farmers can use it to water their crops.
and hydrogen are getting a lot of media attention these days as the fuels of the future.
But it is the workhouse plants like this Calgren facility that reduce the carbon content of our fuel supply,
More biorefineries such as the Calgren plant could help California solve multiple challenges a boost in production of clean transport fuels, the reduction in agricultural waste and for local residents,
ultra-low carbon transportation fuels, said Regenis Vice president Bryan Vanloo. Furthermore, Steve Dvorak, President of DVO, reminded the audience that one cow alone creates about 100 to 130 cubic feet of biogas a day,
The subject of natural gas raises many eyebrows because although that fuel is currently available and inexpensive,
With these fuel savings, this new wind propulsion technology has a payback period of just four years.
and voyage time while reducing fuel and emissions. Rotor Sails can be installed on new vessels
when fuel prices have risen, the focus on technologies like Norsepower in the shipping industry has intensified. But, as soon as fuel prices drop, attention drifts back to other priorities,
even though these technologies offer returns no matter the fuel price. Now, market trends are converging to create promise for efficiency technologies,
despite low fuel prices. A growing number of stakeholders are prioritizing efficiency, including charterers (those that rent ships), banks, port authorities,
and ship registries. With this growing prioritization, these parties are starting to shift money towards
WHY CHARTERS SHOULD RIDE THIS WAVE Fuel buyers can buttress their balance sheet by adopting fuel-saving technologies,
and scaled quickly. odern wind systems are demonstrating measurable and meaningful fuel savings for ships.
the industry will reap the rewards of lower fuel costsore sustainable than those from short-term price decreases,
will find the motor vehicle fuels market very appealing. This would then unleash a huge political and commercial driver for growth in electric cars with the utility sector providing infrastructure to use their product
They know that today we spend around twice as much on motor transport fuel as we do on electricity.
MECS provide a new way to capture carbon with fewer environmental issues says Roger D. Aines leader of the fuel cycle innovations program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and a co
It was theorised that solar sails could accelerate spacecraft far beyond the speeds of traditional fuels, to make interplanetary-and interstellar travel more feasible.
'It was able to go more than Mach 5 until it ran out of fuel.''It was a very successful test of an airborne hypersonic weapons system.'
This results in better fuel economy and less wear on roads, it claims. Equipped with a 700-horsepower bi-fuel engine that can use either compressed natural gas or gasoline
Blade goes from 0-60 in about two seconds and weighs around 1, 400 pounds.
For instance, current satellites could be half the size they are today without the need to carry fuel.
a metric that allows China to demonstrate movement away from carbon-emitting fuels even as total emissions continue to rise with economic growth.
However Chris Cheetham founder of Soter Advisors a fuel and energy risk management consultancy specializing in the shipping industry said that a number of factors could impact potential savings.
Since the early 1900s, scientists have known that cancer cells prefer to use glucose as fuel even if they have plenty of other resources available.
This preference for using glucose as fuel is called the Warburg effect, or glycolysis. In a paper (road Anti-tumor Activity of a Small Molecule that Selectively Targets the Warburg Effect and Lipogenesis published in Cancer cell
"The fuel was created by Audi's project partner Global Bioenergies, in France. In late 2014, Global Bioenergies started up the fermentation unit for a pilot program to produce gaseous isobutane from renewable biomass sugars such as corn-derived glucose.
Gaseous isobutane is a sort of raw material for the petrochemical industry that can then be refined into a variety of plastics, fuels and other applications.
Some of it was sent then to Germany to be converted into isooctane fuel creating a pure, 100 octane gasoline."
"Isooctane is used currently as an additive to improve fuel quality, but could also be used a stand-alone fuel.
Audi calls the final, refined form of the fuel"e-benzin"and claims that it burns clean due to its lack of sulfur and benzene.
Also, its high grade enables it to power engines using high compression ratios for more efficiency.
Audi will test the fuel composition and conduct engine tests to see how it performs before eventually trying it out in vehicle fleets.
while cutting fuel consumption by 20 percent. The Air2nitrous team describes its electronic emissions control system as a"first phase"device because it works before and during combustion.
which is enriched an fuel/air mixture. According to the company, less nitrogen means less nitric oxide and nitrogen oxide (NOX),
The system works with combustion engines powered with various fuels, including diesel, LPG, bunker oil, gasoline, natural gas and others.
and fuel cycle technologies, as well as technical support for the licensing of small modular reactors $560 million for fossil energy R&d to advance carbon capture
Beyond air quality and climate change mitigation benefits, California abundant renewable energy resources provide energy with zero marginal cost and zero fuel price volatility to our citizens,
*The Airbus a380 passenger jet has a carbon fibre reinforced plastic fuselage for a lower fuel consumption. The researchers claim the new technology would allow wings to fix themselves in mid-flight,
but if you have a continuous supply of fuel and air, it doesn run out in the same way that a battery does. he cell is made up of three layers cathode, electrolyte and anode
%lost as heat as the fuel is burned. Then, the electricity has to travel by cable and pylon to the consumer,
which produces high-temperature steam that fuels a generator. The generator creates electricity that is used to power the machine.
California-based hydrogen fueling company Firstelement Fuel to help maintain nearly 20 fueling stations across the state.
Automatic lets you harness the computing power of your car for the sake of fuel efficiency.
letting you diagnose a problem before it starts eating away at your fuel efficiency or increasing your emissions.
New Trackers Go Beyond the Data Dump LAS VEGAS You earned 3, 000 Fuel points! You walked 8, 755 steps.
Hydrogen is the fuel (although the industry refers to call it an nergy carrier, and range is an excellent 300 miles or better.
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
and ability to use fuels from renewable sources are several reason why fuel cells such as PEMFC have attracted attention for large market applications,
Modern applications for PEMFCPEMFC will indirectly make water our future fuel. Hydrogen and oxygen generated by splitting water using photosynthesis can be used as a fuel for PEMFC.
PEMFC are leading candidates to power the space shuttle and other mobile applications even down to mobile phones,
that hydrogen is generated typically by"reforming"fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, or ethanol, which invariably introduces carbon monoxide into the hydrogen gas.
Eindhoven researchers make important step towards a solar cell that generates hydrogen A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity.
The material gallium phosphide enables their solar cell to produce the clean fuel hydrogen gas from liquid water.
If this generates a fuel then one speaks of solar fuels-a hugely promising replacement for polluting fuels.
One of the possibilities is to split liquid water using the electricity that is generated (electrolysis.
Among oxygen, this produces hydrogen gas that can be used as a clean fuel in the chemical industry
fuel consumption can be reduced. Systematic application of our new method could save more than 100 billion liters of fuel each year over the next ten years
says Prof. Andreas Leson from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden, referencing a study that was published in the journal Tribology International in 2012.
The automotive and motorcycle manufacturer BMW is working intensively on the industrial-scale implementation of ta-C engine components in its various vehicle models with the aim of reducing their fuel consumption.
For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed-coal oil, gas, nuclear,
renewables-and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity. This is a significantly challenging step-it assumes that all the cars on the road become electric,
and that homes and industry convert to fully electrified heating and cooling systems. But Jacobson said that their calculations were based on integrating existing technology,
stabilize fuel prices, reduce pollution-related health problems and eliminate emissions from the United states. There is very little downside to a conversion, at least based on this science."
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
'We believe that electrochemical tuning can be used to find new catalysts for other chemical fuels beyond hydrogen.
"The friction between the tire and the ground consumes about 10 percent of a vehicle's fuel,
it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency.""The nanogenerator relies on an electrode integrated into a segment of the tire.
#Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases (Nanowerk News) Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat.
They successfully produced fuel and specialty chemicals from these exhaust gases on a laboratory scale.
Fuels and specialty chemicals can be procured from these. Image: Fraunhofer IME) The exhaust gas masses that arise from steel manufacturing plants are gigantic:
and recycled into fuels and specialty chemicals. With the aid of genetically modified bacterial strains, the research team ferments the gas into alcohols and acetone, convert both substances catalytically into a kind of intermediary diesel product,
The products synthetically produced by us can be used both as fuels as well as speciality chemicals. Exactly like this has worked until now with petroleum as the raw material source
Our goal is to apply for certification processes for the fuels. That is how its viability for practical use will be validated officially.
The work opens the door for scientists to manipulate such organisms to produce compounds useful as fuels or medicines."
and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogenic compounds formed from incomplete combustion of fuels, from contaminated soil. The process is irreversible
and 5500 metres up and can lift more than 3000kg of payload and fuel. That gives tactical planners incredible flexibility
A Science article commenting on the new superlubricated surface mentions that"nearly one-third of a vehicle's fuel energy is spent on overcoming engine
reduce the amount of fuel used. When the diamond nanoparticles came in contact with the thin sheets of graphene (carbon that's only an atom thick) the graphene rolled up around the diamond nanoparticles,
the startup says they can save a lot of fuel on fishing vessels and improve the chances of big game for line fishers.
#Audi has made a synthetic, high-grade fuel from plant sugars Just last month, German car manufacturer Audi invented a carbon-neutral diesel fuel,
the fuel is produced by converting corn-derived glucose-a renewable source of biomass sugar-into isobutane gas.
and used to produce various types of fuels, plastics and elastomers. In this case, the team at Global Bioenergies refined it into a clear, high-grade,'unleadedfuel."
"Some of it was sent then to Germany to be converted into isooctane fuel, creating a pure, 100 octane gasoline."
"That last point refers to the octane rating of the fuel, which is the standard measure for how much compression a type of engine
The team says their Isooctane fuel can be used as an additive to regular unleaded fuel to make it more efficient,
or can be used on its own as a fuel. And because their new fuel contains no benzene or sulphur
they say it burns very cleanly. While the next step of the process will be figuring out how to produce the fuel in large quantities,
the company also aims to modify the manufacturing process so that no biomass is required-just water, hydrogen,
so in making petroleum-based fuels a thing of the past
#Science has found a gene for pain Scientists have identified a gene essential to the ability to sense pain, a discovery
#Scientists figure out how to make solar cells produce fuel AND electricity A new type of solar cell can convert liquid water into clean hydrogen fuel 10 times more effectively than any other technology,
Over the past few years, scientists have been figuring out how to take things one step further by using solar cells to produce both fuel and electricity.
and construction materials to keep fuel-generated warmth inside. Cui's team wanted to take a different approach
The infrastructure isn't in place now for hydrogen to replace gasoline as a fuel for planes trains and automobiles.
and upgrade fuel and chemical feedstock from petroleum-based and renewable resources. There are more than 200 known zeolites and hundreds of thousands predicted zeolite variations.
The"fuel"used is wastewater, and the products of the process are purified water droplets and electricity.
C5 FUEL#,engineered by researchers at Mascoma and BESC, features fermentation and ethanol yields that set a new standard for conversion of biomass sugars from pretreated corn stover--the non-edible portion of corn crops such as the stalk--converting up to 97 percent
of the plant sugars into fuel. Researchers announced that while conventional yeast leaves more than one-third of the biomass sugars unused in the form of xylose,
Mascoma's C5 FUEL#efficiently converts this xylose into ethanol, and it accomplishes this feat in less than 48 hours.
The finding was presented today at the 31st International Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Minneapolis."The ability to partner the combined expertise at Mascoma
it could be considered for other sites where uranium was processed for nuclear arsenals or power plant fuel. While the problem isn't widespread,
#Protein discovery fuels redesign of mosquito-based malaria vaccine A promising type of vaccine designed to eradicate malaria by blocking parasite transmission could be a step closer,
'We believe that electrochemical tuning can be used to find new catalysts for other chemical fuels beyond hydrogen.
Considering that nearly one-third of every fuel tank is spent overcoming friction in automobiles, a material that can achieve superlubricity would greatly benefit industry and consumers alike.
Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined figure that is growing.
Such impacts are harder to quantify accurately than are the pollution impacts of burning fuel.
"Less fuel-burn lowers the cost to get up there, plus it enhances spacecraft operational flexibility, survivability and longevity."
Starting from 2020, ships will only be allowed to use fuel containing maximum 0. 1 percent sulfur in their fuel in certain areas.
Shipping companies are thus facing a major challenge in reducing their fuel costs while complying with the emission guidelines.
A new way of reducing fuel consumption, emissions and bunker expenses is being pursued by the Norwegian engineer Terje Lade,
the fuel consumption is estimated to be only 60 percent of a reference ship on average. Carbone dioxide emissions are reduced by 80 percent, according to calculations by the Norwegian company.
in order to consume as little fuel as possible. As a result costs are reduced. After all, bunker expenses account for the largest part of the total costs in the shipping industry,
Due to its very low fuel consumption, Vindskip#can utilize liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel and still be capable in the worst case of 70 days of steaming between bunkering.
it can meet all of today and tomorrow challenges with regards to fuel economy and emission control.
multi-rotor UAV (Unmanned aerial vehicle) that uses its own structural elements to store fuel. e realized that the structures of these drones were hollow inside,
The paper is titled ovel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment.
jet fuels have stringent requirements that must be met. et fuels must be oxygen-free, have the right boiling point distribution and lubricity,
meaning the fuel can become gelatinous in the cold temperatures of the stratosphere, Bell says. iofuel solutions,
Lubricant base oils can produce even more greenhouse gas emissions on a per-mass basis than petroleum-derived fuels
if even a fraction of the lubricant is repurposed as fuel. The ability of the EBI process to yield jet fuel
the fibrous residue that remains after juice is extracted from sugarcane stalk, into fuels and other products.
it could give us very good improvement in fuel efficiency Improving fuel efficiency would benefit everyone it would help automotive industry meet new strict regulations for emissions,
However, scientists estimated that fuel efficiency could be improved by as much as 10%,given 50%friction energy conversion efficiency.
and 10%savings in terms of fuel consumption are pretty big leap forward. But, as usual, we will have to wait
It widely utilized in an eclectic collection of fields spanning anthropology, fuel science, physiology and meteorology.
Sustainable, low-carbon fuel Hydrogen presents a significant opportunity as a sustainable, low-carbon alternative to fossil-based transport fuels.
This summer, United airlines will starting flying planes using fuel derived from farm animal poop and fats.
The animal-based propellent is produced by California-based Altair Fuels. Wee not letting our animal waste go to wastethe initiative doesn stop there.
Burning these fuels is great for combustion but it also releases the organic materialscarbon components into the atmosphere,
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