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Caterpillar Unveils New C13D Off-Highway Engine Platform
Caterpillar has launched its new off-highway 13-liter diesel engine platform, the C13D, at CONEXPO 2023 in Las Vegas. Cat states that the C13D was “purpose-built for rugged,...
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HD Hyundai Envisions Future of Sustainable Energy
HD Hyundai has lofty plans for the future of hydrogen propulsion and production. At CES 2023, the company made several announcements about its vision for “Ocean Transformation,”...
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Sodium-Ion Battery Anode for Energy Storage
The high cost and limited supply of lithium necessitate the development of alternative energy storage systems.
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Making over the World’s Leading Hybrid
Its markedly upgraded power and performance take it to a driving-dynamics place difficult to believe could be achieved.
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Quicker Pathways to Reduce Transportation’s Climate Impact
Current U.S. energy policies are laser-focused on addressing climate change – as they should be. Meanwhile, 2022’s soaring gasoline prices show that U.S. dependence on...
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The Electrofuels That Reduce Amazon’s Fleet Emissions
Amazon has a goal of having 50% of its shipments being made net-zero carbon by 2030. In 2021, more than 100 million packages were delivered to customers with zero-emissions...
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Time for Hydrogen
After decades of R&D, some false starts, and a smattering of low-volume production vehicles, hydrogen has emerged as a vital enabler for carbon reduction across the transportation sector. In gaseous form, our...
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Enhancing Fault Isolation and Detection for Electric Powertrains of UAVs
NASA’s System-Wide Safety (SWS) project is developing innovative data solutions to assure safe, rapid, and repeatable access to a transformed National Airspace System.
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Multi-Layer Nuclear Thermionic Avalanche Cell
The invention consists of several NTAC layers arranged in a radially concentric series separated by a vacuum gap space.
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Hydrogen Shows Increased Commercial Interest
While several commercial vehicle OEMs, including Tesla and Nikola, are in the latter phase of testing battery-electric semi-tractors on the road, action in the hydrogen space continues to...
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Air Force Pioneers the Future of Synthetic Jet Fuel
Jet fuel relies on a complex network of drillers, refiners, and shippers, but those who were near the Hsu STEM Range in Laurel Hill, Florida recently heard the sound of a small jet...
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Manufacturing on Mars with 3D Printing
High-Martian content materials would be useful in making coatings to protect equipment from rust or radiation damage.
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Zeroing in on Zero-Carbon Fuels
COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference that took place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, over a two-week span in November, helped bring global attention to the need for significant reductions...
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Liebherr Goes All in on Hydrogen Fuel
At the Bauma conference in late October, Liebherr displayed two prototype H2-fueled engines, the H964 and H966, to showcase its hydrogen-engine technology. Each prototype employed a different...
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Kohler Doubles down on ICE Development
Kohler announced a new strategy at the Bauma 2022 expo – the company aims to transform itself from a power producer into an energy supplier. “Our business transformation is focused on providing...
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Tension and the Electric Takeover
Something happened in September 2022 that can be seen as emblematic of the auto industry’s accelerating transition to electrification: Tesla’s Model Y was Europe’s best-selling vehicle. An EV as...
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Producing Oil from Duckweed
Scientists say that such oil-rich duckweed could easily be harvested to produce biofuels or other bioproducts.
Articles Power
A Systems Engineering Approach to Sustainable Power Systems
Research and development work continue to deliver cleaner, more efficient, and more diverse ways of generating the energy we need to power modern society.
Articles Energy
2022 Create the Future Design Contest: Automotive/Transportation Category Winner — Betterfrost Ultra-Low Energy Defrost & Defog System
Betterfrost’s solution defrosts and defogs electric vehicles’ windshields with 20 times less power than current technology and extends the range of an EV by 38 km on an average commute in winter.
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Volvo Leads the Shift to ‘Driver Understanding’
Volvo started teasing out some of the details of its all-electric replacement for the XC90 SUV, dubbed the EX90.
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Gallium Nitride Yields More Energy-Efficient Devices
Engineers have created new high-power electronic devices that are more energy efficient than their predecessors.
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Biofilm Harvests Energy in Evaporation
The biofilm has the potential to revolutionize the world of wearable electronics, powering everything from personal medical sensors to personal electronics.
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Engineering Sustainability
Watching a junked school bus being fed into a mammoth hammer mill, which loudly pummeled the bus into fragments of metal, rubber, and plastic, was a sight I’ll never forget. I was visiting Huron Valley...
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New Screening System May Point the Way to Clean, Renewable Hydrogen Power
A new, highly sensitive system for detecting the production of hydrogen gas may play an important role in the quest to develop hydrogen as an environmentally friendly and economical alternative to fossil fuels.
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Truckin’ on Hydrogen
The hydrogen-fueled electrified Class 8 road tractor doesn’t move or sound like a diesel-fueled behemoth. “This advanced prototype is production-intent for shape, power, virtually everything, and its...
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Lignin-Based Jet Fuel Packs More Power
An experimental plant-based jet fuel could increase engine performance and efficiency, while dispensing with aromatics, the pollution-causing compounds found in conventional fuels.
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New Chemistry Aims to Slash Fuel-Cell PGM Costs by 50%
Hydrogen fuel cells are steadily proving to be a competitive zero-emissions solution for powering heavy trucks, railway locomotives and ships, as well as for various...
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Solar Power for Carbon Capture
A solar thermal device mimics photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide emissions into a clean energy resource.
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